CHIPREADYA 501(c)(3) NATIONAL INITIATIVE
ChipReady

Making America
chip-ready.

The training ground for the engineers of the American century — semiconductors, AI, robotics, quantum.

FOUNDING PARTNER BRIEFING01 / 10
CHIPREADYTHE STAKES
01 / The stakes

The shortage isn't
silicon. It's people.

12%
U.S. share of global chip
fabrication — down from 37% in 1990
67K
U.S. semiconductor jobs at risk
of going unfilled by 2030
1M+
Additional skilled workers
needed worldwide by 2030
SOURCES: SIA / OXFORD ECONOMICS · DELOITTE02 / 10
CHIPREADYTHE FRONTIER
02 / The frontier

A Kennedy "moon in ten
years"
moment — and we're
losing the lead.

America misplaced some of its frontier spirit. That spirit now lives at the bleeding edge — chips, robotics, AI, quantum — the defining competitive differentiator of the century. The good news is the rarest kind: a problem big enough to matter, and tractable enough that philanthropy can move it.

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CHIPREADYTHE GAP
03 / Why it persists

The system wasn't built
for this speed.

Curricula lag the industry by years

The fab opening in 2026 needs skills the catalog won't list until 2030.

The new careers aren't taught anywhere

Robotics, advanced packaging, hardware security, AI-driven design — no map exists.

Access is uneven, regional, and expensive

World-class training is locked to a handful of research campuses.

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CHIPREADYTHE BUILD
04 / What we're building

A Khan Academy for the
frontier — and more.

01

The Open Academy

World-class education in chips, robotics, quantum, and space — free to anyone. This knowledge shouldn't be paywalled.

02

The AI Platform

Personalized learning and curriculum that meets each person where they are — and maps the careers no university teaches yet.

03

Learning how to learn

The technology underneath that makes mastery dramatically faster — the part we care about most.

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CHIPREADYTHE MOAT
05 / The differentiator

We teach people how
to learn.

Most people don't fail to learn because the material is too hard. They fail because no one ever built them something that made starting feel possible. So we engineer for what actually gates learning — focus, retention, and the mood, readiness, and ambition to begin. Anyone can host videos. Almost no one builds the mind that watches them.

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CHIPREADYTHE ASCENT
06 / The ascent

Novice to pioneer.
Proven by a job.

01Novice
02 — 03Advanced Beginner · Competent
04 — 05Proficient · Expert
06 — 07Master · Pioneer

A personalized trajectory, an AI companion that tracks readiness, and real industry work — ending not in a certificate, but a placement.

THE DREYFUS MODEL OF MASTERY07 / 10
CHIPREADYTHE PROOF
07 / This is already real

Not a whiteboard.
A coalition.

Named partner in PINES — a federal Regional Node, 9 states / 31 institutions
Anchored by Micron's ~$200B U.S. build-out
A federal subaward + a SEMI Foundation curriculum grant
A donated 50-module curriculum across the full value chain
Endorsed by Sens. Cantwell & Murray, Rep. DelBene
Founding team out of Amazon & Microsoft
NATIONAL NETWORK FOR MICROELECTRONICS EDUCATION08 / 10
CHIPREADYTHE ASK
08 / The ask

$5M to finish it.

The raise doesn't buy buildings — it builds the engine: the AI platform, the learn-how-to-learn technology, and the first sponsored cohorts. Founding partners help shape the institution — its curriculum, its cohorts, and the first claim on the talent we create. A 501(c)(3); your gift is tax-deductible.

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CHIPREADYMAKING AMERICA CHIP-READY
ChipReady

Give America back its
frontier — one ready
mind at a time.

Vishal Misri · ChipReady  ·  info@chipready.org  ·  chipready.org

THANK YOU10 / 10
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