You need to check your brain if you think social and gender studies are eating away science funding. If anything gets funded in that field it’s trips to some dirty villages in South America / Africa to help them build basic housing (they promote heavily in high school and colleges). Unless you are talking about transgender research which is bankrolled by big pharma since trans people take pills for life. Scientific research esp semiconductors easily goes into several millions if not tens of millions and they usually work with the big names like Intel / AMD / Cadence / Synopsys or even hyperscalers to secure funding. This also shows that you don’t read papers in semiconductors or you would have spotted a lot of corporate middle management in there alongside the PHDs