Semiconductor Industry's Interconnect Capital of the World

• Team of UAlbany and Rensselaer working with SIA as a Focus Center in Interconnects with 9-15 year horizon
• Focus Center- New York headquartered at UAlbany including Rensselaer, Cornell University, & University at Stony Brook funded at $25 million
• Rensselaer and UAlbany working with the Semiconductor Research corporation as an Advanced Interconnect Center with 4 to 8 year horizon
• UAlbany working with SEMATECH on intergration of copper interconnects with 0 to 3 year horizon

Manufacturing Support by Region's Universities

• Constructing the only non-proprietary user-shared 300mm pilot manufacturing and workforce training facility at UAlbany
• Largest university based 4" to 8" water manufacturing facility at Rensselaer
• University based 200mm Pre-Manufacturing Technology Development Facility at UAlbany
• Three centers for Advanced Technology in thin film, automation, robotics, sensors, and materials processing helping companies with manufacturing process support