New York State seeks to capture CHIPS and Science Act business
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story listed Intel as a participant. This is incorrect, and the story has been updated accordingly.
Semiconductor research and development will get a $10 billion boost in New York State, with an announcement Monday morning of what is being touted as the first and only publicly owned new High NA Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Center in North America.
The effort is a partnership between the state of New York, IBM, Micron, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron and others. New York is investing $1 billion and the project is expected to create at least 700 new direct jobs and retain “thousands” of jobs, according to the office of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, as well as leveraging at least $9 billion in private spending and investment.
The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering and Science (NY CREATES, which is a partnership between Empire State Development (ESD) and the State University of New York, or SUNY) will purchase and install the semiconductor lithography tool—which Hochul, in a press conference, described as “the most sophisticated semiconductor equipment on the planet”—at the Albany NanoTech Complex, which is part of UAlbany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and also houses offices for the aforementioned corporate chip partners. New York’s investment will also fund the building of the NanoFab Reflection, a new building with more than 50,000 square feet of cleanroom space.
One the new High NA EUV Center is built, the governor’s office, it “will position the state as a destination for research and development of the innovative chip technology that powers nearly every smartphone, tablet, laptop, and computer server today,” as well as foster international research partnerships. In addition, Hochul’s office said that the semiconductor R&D partnership will “significantly enhance New York State’s position as a leading candidate to secure anchor hub status under the federal National Semiconductor Technology Center, a designation with the potential to unlock more than $11 billion in federal CHIPS and Science Act funding.”
IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said in a statement that IBM’s work at the Albany NanoTech Complex already includes R&D focused on making chips smaller, more powerful and more energy efficient. “The new High NA EUV Center at Albany NanoTech will secure a strong pipeline for semiconductor innovation, keeping New York State at the center of semiconductor expertise, accelerating the growth of the global chip industry and helping to meet manufacturing demand for new technologies such as generative AI,” he added.
