New York Loves Nanotech is a consortium of economic developers, research institutions, and strategic private sector partners whose goal is to accelerate New York's high-tech corridor by attracting investment, enabling the supply chain, developing high-volume manufacturing sites, brokering resources for growth, driving leading edge R&D, marketing assets, and developing robust workforce and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Our Journey.
Albany NanoTech Will House North America’s First and Only Publicly Owned High NA Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Center – Bringing the Future of Advanced Semiconductor Research & Manufacturing to New York’s Capital Region More Info...
Acquisition and investments planned for ramp-up at the East Fishkill (EFK) fab create onsemi’s largest U.S. manufacturing site. EFK enables accelerated growth and differentiation for onsemi’s power, analog and sensing technologies. onsemi retains more than 1,000 jobs at the site.
Edwards is the leading supplier of vacuum and abatement technologies, products, services and solutions for the global semiconductor industry.More Info...
Built and operated with sustainability goals in mind, Micron’s leading-edge memory fab will create nearly 50,000 New York jobs over more than 20 years; New Green CHIPS Community Fund to invest $500 million in community and workforce development over time. More Info...
The nation's most ambitious semiconductor industry attraction program. Program designed to attract semiconductor partnerships to create jobs, opportunity, and foster environmental sustainability. More Info...
Enabling Highly Anticipated Device Production. The New York-based fab expands Wolfspeed’s manufacturing capacity to meet the steepening demand for Silicon Carbide devices across automotive and industrial applications. More Info...
Construction on schedule for completion in early Q2 2021, anticipated clean room move in by summer 2021.
CREE announced plans to build a $1 billion, 200 mm silicon carbide wafer fabrication facility at the Marcy Nanocenter, the largest facility of its kind in the world.
Applied Materials, Inc., will partner with New York State to establish the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center) on the SUNY Poly campus as part of an overall $600 M investment
IBM announces the AI Hardware Center at SUNY Poly for artificial intelligence-focused computer chip research, development, prototyping, testing and simulation. Governor Cuomo announces that IBM, a long-time anchor tenant at the SUNY Poly campus in Albany, plans to invest over $2 billion to grow its high-tech footprint at the campus and throughout New York State.
OnSemiconductor acquires GLOBALFOUNDRIES East Fishkill, NY
Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied, and its partners will co-invest $20,000,000 in venture capital for early-stage businesses across Upstate New York, with ESD providing an additional $10,000,000 for a total of $30,000,000 to foster new technology and create high-tech jobs
AIM’s Test, Assembly and Packaging (TAP) facility, located in Rochester’s 1,200-acre Eastman Business Park, opens. TAP tests, assembles and packages microchips for semiconductors. Governor Cuomo announces $30M Photonics Attraction Fund encouraging manufacturers of integrated photonics technologies to setup or expand in Greater Rochester.
The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering and Science (NY CREATES) is established to manage industrial and business relationships at the SUNY Poly with Former GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Doug Grose as director
Inaugural Business Connections Forum - Silicon Europe Worldwide with support from North American partners organizes a multiday event in Albany, NY where European and North American SMEs, large corporations, universities and research institutes meet
Launch of UAV Testing Corridor at Griffis International Airport in Rome, NY, which is already being used by NASA for drone-related testing. The goal is to develop the most advanced drone testing in the country and create an incubator for drone industry platforms, hardware and concepts.
Danfoss Silicon Power announces a new silicon-carbide chip packaging line at SUNY Poly's Quad-C lab at its Utica, NY campus
Opening of Cornell Tech, Cornell University, in partnership with the Technion on Roosevelt Island, marking a transformational milestone for tech in NYC
Establishment of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) with more than a $600 M initial investment. AIM is a public-private partnership to develop the next generation of integrated photonics and deliver global manufacturing leadership.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES acquires IBM's Microelectronics business, including facilities in Essex Junction, VT and East Fishkill, NY
GLOBALFOUNDRIES large-scale operations begin
New York Loves Nanotech hosted the "World Semiconductor Council" in conjunction with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
The Global 450mm Consortium (G450C) is established at the Albany NanoTech Complex as a $4.8 billion, first-of-its-kind collaboration headquartered and housed at SUNY Poly, comprising five leading international companies working to create the next generation of computer chip technology - IBM, Intel, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Samsung and TSMC
SEMATECH moves from Austin, TX to Albany, NY
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announces plan for chip fab in Luther Forest in Malta, NY (to become GLOBALFOUNDRIES)
SUNY Poly enters into a major partnership with SEMATECH
TEL establishes its Technology Center, America R&D Center (TEL TCA), which is Tokyo Electron Ltd.’s only R&D facility outside Japan - a $300 M center established to conduct R&D of cutting-edge semiconductor materials and processes at SUNY Poly
IBM invests $100,000,000 to create a Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics at SUNY Poly
CEG launches a global outreach program that became branded as ‘“NY Loves Nanotech” and began a region-wide effort to lure a chip production facility.
Establishment of the Albany NanoTech Complex at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), the most advanced research facility of its kind at any university*
