As coronavirus keeps people home, GlobalFoundries faces surging demand
Microchip makers everywhere scramble to supply computer, smart phone manufacturers
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Pandemic-driven demand for computers and smart phones has led to a boom in microchip production at facilities such as Global Foundries Fab 8 plant in Malta.Global Foundries
MALTA While countless businesses have been on hold or shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, computer chip maker GlobalFoundries is seeing boom times.
“We’re making a record number of wafers everywhere including Malta,” said Mike Hogan, GlobalFoundries senior vice president and general manager at the company’s Automotive, Industrial & Multi-market Strategic Business Unit.
The First Malta Rocket Test By Paul Perreault | Sponsored by The Saratoga County History Roundtable | History View of Rocket Test from Observation Bunker. Photo provided.
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n Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, the residents of Malta were startled by a loud noise coming from the heart of Luther Forest. It was not the clatter of Santa’s reindeer on the roof but instead America’s race to the Moon had begun.
Toward the end of World War II the American Army became concerned about the V-2 missiles Germany was raining on London so they asked that engineers from the Schenectady General Electric plant go to Europe and interview the captured Germen scientists and select the papers, drawings and actual rocket parts to be shipped back to America. A team, under the direction of Dr. Richard Porter, went to Peenemunde and Nordhausen where the rockets had been developed. They interviewed Werhner von Braun and his team, confiscated “tons” of papers and drawings, as
GlobalFoundries-Malta Foundation awards nearly $143,000 | The Daily Gazette
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MALTA The GlobalFoundries-Town of Malta Foundation on Wednesday awarded $142,964 in 31 different grants to benefit community organizations that serve Malta residents and the school districts that serve the town.
While the largest single grant was $16,500 to the Malta-Stillwater Emergency Medical Service for purchase of a ventilator to be available in ambulances, both the Ballston Spa and Shenedehowa school districts each received multiple grants to support STEM learning, robotics and general education programs.
The grants, which were announced during a virtual presentation held Wednesday, are in addition to a $50,000 grant provided in March to help the town of Malta to provide local individuals and families with grocery store gift cards, as the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic first began to emerge.