President Joe Biden Thursday praised progress made within the manufacturing sector weeks after the passage of the Chips and Science Act, which invested billions of {dollars} in home semiconductor manufacturing.

The president’s remarks got here after Idaho-based microchip producer Micron introduced plans Thursday to take a position roughly $15 billion over the subsequent decade in a brand new reminiscence manufacturing facility in Boise.

The lab, which is the primary of its type in-built America in over 20 years, is projected to create 17,000 new American jobs by the tip of 2032, based on the corporate.

“In the present day’s announcement by Micron is one other huge win for America,” Biden stated in a press release.

Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra thanked the Biden administration and members of Congress for bipartisan help of the CHIPS Act “which made this funding choice doable.”

“That is the primary of Micron’s a number of deliberate U.S. investments following the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, and represents the most important non-public funding ever made in Idaho,” Mehrotra stated in a assertion. “Our new modern reminiscence manufacturing fab will gas U.S. know-how management, making certain a dependable home provide of semiconductors that’s crucial to financial and nationwide safety.”

Over $52 billion was allotted to U.S. corporations producing pc chips underneath the act, together with billions in tax credit to spur investments in semiconductor manufacturing to allow the U.S. to compete with East Asia. The area accounts for 75% of world manufacturing of semiconductors.

Biden signed the CHIPS Act into regulation in early August.

Micron first introduced a $40 billion funding in reminiscence chip manufacturing at that time. The funding, stated the White Home, will create 40,000 new jobs in building and manufacturing and lift the U.S. market share of reminiscence chip manufacturing from lower than 2% to as much as 10% over the subsequent 10 years.

In his assertion Thursday, Biden additionally talked about related progress projections from manufacturing corporations First Photo voltaic, Toyota, Honda and Corning over the previous week.

The bulletins are a “direct results of my financial plan,” he stated.

Solar energy firm First Photo voltaic introduced $1.2 billion in developments Tuesday, together with a brand new manufacturing facility within the southeastern a part of the nation and an enlargement of its Northwest Ohio manufacturing footprint. The investments will add no less than 850 new manufacturing jobs with the extra aim of supporting over 15,000 jobs by 2025, based on a press launch.

Automobile producers Toyota and Honda revealed a respective $2.5 billion extra funding in Toyota’s North American battery manufacturing facility and a $4.Four billion three way partnership with LG Power Options to fabricate lithium-ion batteries within the U.S. that may energy Honda and Acura EV fashions for the home market.

Toyota’s new enterprise will add 350 jobs, bringing whole employment to roughly 2,100, based on a press release. A consultant for Honda didn’t reply to a request for remark earlier than publication.

Corning, a New York-based superior optics producer, stated Tuesday it’s partnering with AT&T in a new optical cable manufacturing facility in Arizona. The power will deliver roughly 250 jobs to the world and is predicted to open in 2024, based on a press launch.

“In our future, we are going to make EVs, chips, fiber optics, and different crucial elements right here in America, and we can have an economic system constructed from the underside up and center out,” Biden stated Thursday.

The economic system has added 3.Three million jobs this 12 months because the unemployment fee has fallen to three.5%, tied for the bottom since 1969. For August, payrolls progress is predicted to rise by 318,000 after rising by 528,000 in July.

Nonetheless, Federal Reserve officers have warned that their intentions to proceed elevating rates of interest to fight inflation may increase the extent of unemployment within the months forward.

— CNBC’s Jeff Cox contributed to this text.