From Micron in Onondaga County, to the Albany Nanotech complex, to GlobalFoundries in Saratoga County, upstate New York has emerged as one of the states leading the nation in semiconductor production. On Friday, GlobalFoundries broke ground on the first of two new fabrication plants in Malta, expanding New York state’s semiconductor manufacturing.
The groundbreaking that took place on Friday makes way for the two additional semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs. It marks the first project under a new U.S.-Japan initiative that looks to combine Japanese investment with GlobalFoundries technologies to expand U.S. semiconductor capacity and boost the economy.
Since 2009, Malta has housed the global headquarters for GlobalFoundries. Its vice president and General Manager Grant McEwan said the expansion will have a huge impact, not just on the semiconductor industry,, but on the community…