Fab 8 — located in Malta, N.Y. — is in New York’s “Tech Valley,” a tech hub that includes IBM’s chip development and chip manufacturing campuses. The region also boasts education and research facilities such as the global semiconductor research consortia Sematech, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, and CNSE.
Other companies that are part of the technology cluster in upstate New York include Air Liquide, Applied Materials, ASML, KLA-Tencor, M+W Group, Matheson Tri-Gas, and Tokyo Electron Limited.
Obama’s visit will “highlight the historic public and private investments in new advanced manufacturing; research and development; and education facilities helping to revitalize upstate New York and strategically position the United States in the global economy,” according to a statement.
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