David Schild, Executive Director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America

Semiconductor chips have gotten all of the attention and a $50 billion subsidy from the government. But without the more prosaic Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) underneath them, chips don’t do anything. PCB manufacturing has mostly moved offshore, leading to a pending bill to help the industry, as the nation focuses on the supply chain. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke in-studio with David Schild, the Executive Director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America.

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