Pax Silica Summit

Pax Silica 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, AI infrastructure, and logistics.

Rooted in deep cooperation with trusted partners, Pax Silica aims to reduce coercive dependencies, protect the materials and capabilities foundational to artificial intelligence, and ensure aligned nations can develop and deploy transformative technologies at scale.

Pax Silica is a positive-sum partnership. It is not about isolating others, but about coordinating with partners who want to remain competitive and prosperous.

Participants

The inaugural Pax Silica Summit convened stakeholders from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia, alongside guest contributions from Taiwan, the European Union, Canada, and the OECD.

Meaning behind the name

"Pax Silica" draws from the Latin pax, meaning 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 artificial intelligence.

Shared commitments

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.

They committed to pursue new joint ventures and strategic co-investment opportunities, protect sensitive technologies and critical infrastructure from undue access or control by countries of concern, and build trusted technology ecosystems, including ICT systems, fiber-optic cables, data centers, foundational models and applications.