About Pax Silica Initiative:
- It is a U.S.-led strategic initiative to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain—from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, and logistics.
- The term 'Pax Silica' comes from the Latin term ‘pax’ which means peace, stability, and long-term prosperity.
- Silica refers to the compound that is refined into silicon, one of the chemical elements foundational to the computer chips that enable AI.
- It aims to reduce coercive dependencies, protect the materials and capabilities foundational to AI, and ensure aligned nations can develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale.
- Which Countries Are Part of Pax Silica?
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- Israel
- United Arab Emirates
- Australia
- Countries Affirmed a Shared Commitment To:
- Pursue projects to jointly address AI supply chain opportunities and vulnerabilities in priority critical minerals, semiconductor design, fabrication, and packaging, logistics and transportation, compute, and energy grids and power generation.
- Pursue new joint ventures and strategic co-investment opportunities.
- Protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure from undue access or control by countries of concern.
- Build trusted technology ecosystems, including ICT systems, fiber-optic cables, data centers, foundational models and applications.
