# Commerce announces preliminary CHIPS terms with Intel under the Biden-signed statute

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 20 December 2023 the Commerce Department announced preliminary CHIPS Program terms with Intel for a multi-state fabrication package. He did not write the award memo as a personal tally.

## Context

[Gina Raimondo](/people/gina-raimondo)’s Commerce staff ran the programme. Neighbouring CHIPS signature is 9 August 2022. Firms still decide whether to build.

CHIPS 9 August 2022 is the parent statute. IRA is a different industrial file.

The President of the United States signs enrolled bills and is Commander in Chief. He does not write a Senate roll-call, a CBP sector tally, an IDF campaign, or a CBO score. A signature is not unique authorship of every title Congress enrolled. Drafting and floor votes remain with Congress. An archived [White House](/organizations/white-house) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) is the official carrier for this term; current whitehouse.gov is not this administration. Office-holding is not authorship of every later CPI print, encounter table, or foreign campaign.

## Evidence and sources

U.S. Department of Commerce carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed Commerce award under CHIPS is a dated implementation instrument, remaining firm investment as a neighbour.

## What is established and what is not

Established: December 2023 Commerce–Intel preliminary CHIPS terms, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later fab-job coefficient from that Wednesday, or that he personally wrote the award.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Commerce announced the terms. Intel still invests. He did not write the award as a personal tally.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Commerce announces preliminary CHIPS terms with Intel under the Biden-signed statute, not a later speech about Commerce announces preliminary CHIPS terms with Intel under the Biden-signed statute.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Commerce announces preliminary CHIPS terms with Intel under the Biden-signed statute on 2023-12-20 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Department of Commerce communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Commerce announces preliminary CHIPS terms with Intel under the Biden-signed statute into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He had signed CHIPS. Commerce announced the terms. Intel still invests. He did not write the award as a personal tally. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Joe Biden: https://factrail.ai/people/joe-biden

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-commerce-intel-chips-award-2023-12-20/
- https://www.commerce.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-biden-intel-chips-2023