UTICA, NY-A half dozen leading global technology companies will invest a total of $1.5 billion in a public-private partnership to create “Nano Utica,” New York State's second major hub of nanotechnology research and development, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last week. The consortium will work out of a complex now under construction and due to open late next year at the SUNY Institute of Technology here.
“What is taking place here at SUNYIT mirrors in many respects the model used in Palo Alto, where physical assets at Stanford University were used to build what became known as Silicon Valley,” says Steve DiMeo, president of Mohawk Valley EDGE, which is partnering with SUNY's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop the adjacent Marcy Nanocenter manufacturing site. The Marcy facility will have the capacity to support construction of three 450mm computer chip fabrication facilities.
The consortium of technology companies that will create Nano Utica include Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Inc.; SEMATECH, Atotech; and SEMATECH and CNSE partner companies, including IBM, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron. The consortium will be headquartered at the CNSE-SUNYIT Computer Chip Commercialization Center, and will build on the research and development programs now being conducted by ANSI, SEMATECH and their private industry partners at the SUNY CNSE campus in Albany.
As a result of the consortium's commitment to locate at Nano Utica, the $125-million facility is being expanded to accommodate the new collaboration. It will feature state-of-the-art cleanrooms, laboratories, hands-on education and workforce training facilities, and integrated offices encompassing 253,000 square feet. The 56,000-square-foot cleanroom on two levels reportedly will be the first-of-its-kind in the nation.
To support the project, the state will invest $200 million over 10years to purchase new equipment for the Nano Utica facility. No private company will receive any state funds as part of the initiative.
R&D planned for the new facility will include computer chip packaging and lithography development and commercialization. These system-on-a-chip innovations will drive a host of new technologies and products in the consumer and business marketplace, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops; 3D systems for gaming; ultrafast and secure computer servers and IT systems; and sensor technology for emerging healthcare, clean energy and environmental applications.
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