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The advanced electronics and nanotech industry in Albany County is home to companies focused on power electronics, wafer processing & manufacturing, lithography tooling, compound semiconductor research & applications, data analytics, artificial intelligence and nanomedicine. For more than a century our region has been focused on the research, development, and production of some of the nation’s leading technologies.
In 2021, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, announced today it would relocate its headquarters to Malta, NY, just 30 minutes outside Albany. Albany is home to The Albany NanoTech Complex, a fully-integrated research, development, prototyping, and educational facility that provides strategic support through outreach, technology acceleration, business incubation, pilot prototyping, and test-based integration support for onsite corporate partners.
By locating your electronics business to our region you will join an esteemed community of technology industry leaders.
Economic Highlights
- 1 in 6 semiconductor device patents with domestic inventors awarded by the USPTO listed at least one Capital Region inventor
- 1 of less than 50 metro areas where private businesses spend more than $1B on R&D
- Named by Brookings the 3rd Leading Potential Innovation Growth Center in U.S.