BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Gov. Tim Walz visited microchip manufacturing company, Polar Semiconductor, in Bloomington Friday to highlight investments made in Minnesota’s high-tech manufacturing industry.
Walz said the idea of innovation, especially around chip-technology, is part of Minnesota’s DNA.
“We saw it during the pandemic, the breakdown in supply chains and quite honestly, we saw some of the vulnerabilities our country had in depending on off-shoring some of the critical components,” Walz said. “Whether it was for automobiles or thermostats in our homes. All of those things became critical, it added to the inflationary pressures, it added to the uncertainty.”
Walz says facilities like Polar as well as Federal and State legislature passing acts like the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in clean-energy, are our solution to these problems.
