10月20日：美国商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克周二宣布，工业矿产开采和加工公司Sibelco将在北卡罗来纳州进行新投资，以支持半导体生产。
Oct 20 : US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday announced a new investment in North Carolina by Sibelco, an industrial minerals mining and processing company, to support semiconductor production.
“我们宣布Sibelco将建设硅制造设施。这是石英制造。它基本上是半导体的基础，”他在北卡罗来纳州的特朗普集会上表示。他未透露细节，但表示该投资将价值“数亿美元”。
"We're announcing Sibelco is going to build silicon manufacturing. It's quartz manufacturing. It is basically the foundation of semiconductors," he said during a Trump rally in North Carolina. He did not share details but said the investment would be worth "hundreds of millions of dollars."