PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE:COHR), a leader in wide- and ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors, today announced that it secured $15 million in funding from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022 that provided the Department of Defense (DoD) with $2 billion to strengthen and revitalize the U.S. semiconductor supply chain. One of the key objectives of the CHIPS program is to nurture ecosystems that reduce risk, incentivizin ...