The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that NY CREATES’s Albany NanoTech Complex, where IBM is a key partner, will house the NSTC EUV Accelerator, a key facility that will help secure leading-edge semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing in North America.
IBM Research has already shown the first working proof point using High NA EUV lithography. Read more about our latest breakthrough on the pathway to sub-2 nm nodes here.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that NY CREATES’s Albany NanoTech Complex, where IBM is a key partner, will house the NSTC EUV Accelerator, a key facility that will help secure leading-edge semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing in North America.
Every industry, every supply chain, every vehicle, even our schools, cannot function without computers. Semiconductor chips are the heart of computing that enables the modern world. Over the last few decades, semiconductor manufacturing supply chain has become increasingly unbalanced and brittle. We all saw what impact that had during the pandemic. Consumers couldn’t buy things like laptops or cars, due to the lack of available semiconductor chips. Semiconductors are not only critical for the economy but are also central to U.S. national security.
This was a large part of the reason Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in 2022. Its aim was to ensure that the U.S. continued to lead in developing and manufacturing cutting-edge chip technologies through investments in education and research, but also through reestablishing North America as a place where the devices we rely on every day are actually built.