IBM elicits praise, celebration locally after 2nm chip breakthrough
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1of8A 12-inch silicon wafer with IBM s new 2 nanometer chips that were developed at its research lab at Albany Nanotech.IBMShow MoreShow Less
4of8Buy PhotoGlobalfoundries CEO Tom Caulfield, left, celebrates with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, right, during an announcement that GlobalFoundries will move its company headquarters to their Fab 8 manufacturing facility in Malta on Monday, April 26, 2021, during a press conference at Globalfoundries in Malta, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
5of8Buy PhotoGlobalfoundries CEO Tom Caulfield, left, and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, right, announceme that GlobalFoundries will move its company headquarters to their Fab 8 manufacturing facility in Malta on Monday, April 26, 2021, during a press conference at Globalfoundries in Malta, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)
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Bright spots for Capital Region seen in state budget
New Wadsworth Lab funding approved, many programs intact despite COVID
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Money for a new Wadsworth lab is in the state budget after years of trying.NYSDOH
With the broad contours of the $212 billion state budget in place, elected officials and others are sifting through some of the bright news in store for the Capital Region.
That includes a $750 million commitment to rebuild and consolidate the state’s venerable Wadsworth Center health and science labs along Brevator Avenue on the east end of the Harriman state office campus in Albany.
“It’s terrific news,” said Albany Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, who with other local legislators has sought the project for years. Of the money allocated, $150 million is for site preparation with the rest toward building the center.
Intel s interest in building fab in New York goes back 20 years
As Biden and Schumer push $50 billion chip program, Intel says it s looking at NY
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Kenneth Green, President of Saratoga Economic Development Corp, right, celebrates the announcement of an AMD chip fabrication plant to be built on the Luther Forest Tech Park in Malta, with SEDC Senior Vice President Jack Kelley, center, and Jon Dawes, left, also from SEDC, during a press conference Friday afternoon June 23, 2006. AMD would later spin off its manufacturing into GlobalFoundries.WWShow MoreShow Less
A June 24, 2006 poster of the front page of the Schenectady Daily Gazette shows Jenney Kelley, foreground, with her father, Jack Kelley, at the announcement that AMD was coming to Luther Forest to build their chip plant. AMD later spun off its factories into GlobalFoundries. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less