Anything with an on-off switch needs a microchip to work.“It could be the light switch on the wall, could be your phone, certainly your computer, most of what’s now in your car,” said Kyle Squires, the dean of Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. “Just think about every single thing you interact with all day long. Semiconductors and microelectronic devices are in all of those things.”Microchips were originally developed in the U.S., but over the span of several decades, their manufacture moved to foreign countries. American consumers paid the price when the...…Anything with an on-off switch needs a microchip to work.“It could be the light switch on the wall, could be your phone, certainly your computer, most of what’s now in your car,” said Kyle Squires, the dean of Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. “Just think about every single thing you interact with all day long. Semiconductors and microelectronic devices are in all of those things.”Microchips were originally developed in the U.S., but over the span of several decades, their manufacture moved to foreign countries. American consumers paid the price when the...WW…