Reliable Infrastructure
Reliable Infrastructure
Decades of private and public investment has positioned New York as a leader in the semiconductor industry.
The state is already home to the most advanced publicly owned 300mm semiconductor R&D facility in the United States, the Albany NanoTech Complex. The facility is led by the State University of New York’s NY CREATES, which serves as a resource for public-private and academic partnerships around the globe.
The multibillion-dollar complex offers a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides technology acceleration, business incubation, pilot prototyping, and test-based integration support for onsite corporate partners including global industry leaders like IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, ASML, and Lam Research.
In addition to existing partnerships with industry giants, Albany NanoTech provides access to semiconductor design and prototyping for startups, smaller businesses, and universities. As the National Semiconductor Technology Center, it could help create hundreds of new U.S. semiconductor companies to serve the needs of the entire domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
New York is also home to several shovel-ready sites — Marcy Nanocenter in the Mohawk Valley, White Pine in Central New York, and STAMP in Western New York — that each offer low-cost, reliable water and power infrastructure and access to a world-class workforce.
Our advanced R&D funnel, public and private university partnerships, and existing relationships with global industry leaders create an innovation environment that empowers New York to lead America’s microchip resurgence.
Nation-Leading Workforce Development
Nation-Leading Workforce Development
Reinvigorating America’s semiconductor industry will take a trained and agile workforce.
Right now, New York is home to 34,000 jobs in its semiconductor ecosystem, with the workforce development engine to support every stage of the R&D, manufacturing, and distribution process from cutting-edge training facilities for researchers to professional certifications for manufacturers and distributors.
New York’s world-class institutions of higher education graduate 43,000 students in STEM-related fields every year and offer a range of educational options from 8-week certificates to PhDs to fuel the lifelong learning needed in a cutting-edge and growing industry.
The Albany NanoTech Complex, the most advanced facility of its kind in the U.S., is prepared to develop the nation’s semiconductor workforce with strong partnerships across the 64-campus State University of New York system and with top engineering schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Last year, Albany NanoTech and SUNY Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with private sector partners launched the Career Alignment Platform, partially funded by $1.25 million from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration, to provide students and existing workers with training and support to access jobs in the semiconductor industry.
Proven World-Class Research and Development
Proven World-Class Research and Development
New York has hosted America’s high-tech manufacturing giants since the 1800s, with groundbreaking companies like General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Corning Inc., Alcoa Corporation, and more. In 1945, IBM founded its Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory in Manhattan, helping to usher in the era of supercomputing.
Today we are home to some of the most remarkable microelectronic R&D taking place anywhere in the world, including global industry leaders like GlobalFoundries, Wolfspeed, onsemi, and IBM. Just last year, IBM unveiled the world’s first 2 nanometer chip technology, opening a new frontier for the semiconductor industry—and they did it right here in Albany.
This R&D ecosystem is further fueled by a concentration of premier institutions of higher education, including SUNY, the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the country, two Ivy League universities, and destination engineering schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Altogether, New York has the right ingredients to unleash the next generation of chip technology.
Existing Nationwide Partnerships
Existing Nationwide Partnerships
To ensure a robust national effort, Albany NanoTech has already begun building a national coalition of more than 30 partners in industry and higher education.
This network includes premier universities outside of New York like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Arizona, and the University of Texas at Austin, among others. In addition, Albany NanoTech is focused on working with community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to prioritize the development of a diverse workforce for the industry.
This groundwork ensures that with federal investment, a National Semiconductor Technology Center in New York could achieve real results in a matter of months for companies of all sizes and the broader U.S. semiconductor industry.