Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test U.S. chip coalition; materials group; power outage; EV share. Government policy Semiconductor companies as well hardware and software vendors have announced the formation of the Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC). The group called on congressional leaders to appropriate $50 billion for U.S. manufacturing incentives and research initiatives. SIAC’s mission is to advance federal policies that promote semiconductor manufacturing and research in the U.S., which is lagging behind. The new coalition includes Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia, GlobalFoundries, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Micron and others. It also includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Microsoft, and