New York Plans $45 Billion Fab Campus

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The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) has teamed up with the economic development organization responsible for Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to develop a site that could accommodate up to three 450mm wafer fabs.

Each wafer fab would have approximately 450,000 square feet of cleanroom space after between $10 billion and $15 billion of private and public money had been spent. Such a build-out would create about 5,000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs, CNSE said in a press release.

http://www.eetimes.com/

[lamp_shade]

1. Thanks. Good to hear positive news about badly needed jobs in the Mohawk Valley...

I was born and raised in a nearby town.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. But I thought nobody wanted to locate in NY because the Democrats

have ruined it with high taxes! Surely this is a misprint. They meant to say Texas, right?

[leveymg]

3. Wow. I didn't even think they still made chips in this country. And, get this, it isn't a scam.

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There's already a $13 billion fab facility run in the Mohawk Valley of NY by a consortia of large global companies that first started operating there in 1997, according to the Wiki for the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE.) I had to do a double-take and some Googling. That name just reads too much like science fiction from the early 1980s.

I've long been a skeptic of Silicon Valley hype (and a fan of Cyberpunk). In the early 1980s, I was living in Santa Cruz, CA, a little hippie surfer town just over the hill from San Jose, the epicenter of the then rocketing American computer software sector. But, I sensed all was not well and sustainable in this new industry and the cybernetic society it was shaping. I foresaw the dot.com crash of 2000 coming at the beginning of the personal computer age and described life in America after the Big Bust in a 1982 series of ten articles for a little weekly newspaper, The Santa Cruz Express. In the first installment, Santa Cruz in the Year 2002,I wrote:

Early in the year 2000, the microelectronics industry went bust because of market saturation and declining consumer income . . ."

Well, I got the timing of the crash spot-on, anyway. Here is one of several of the installments I've posted at Photobucket, part of the series: "Santa Cruz in the Years 2002-2012" (1982). This NY tech campus sounds eerily like one of the "Jack Junior" installations I imagined would be built, and largely abandoned after the bubble burst in the 2000s. Imagine that:



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