Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York

The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to invest $825 million in US CHIPS and Science Act funding to establish a semiconductor research and development center in Albany, New York.

The facility, which will be operated as part of Natcast's National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) and located at the NY Create's Albany NanoTech Complex, aims to advance chip manufacturing using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment.

EUV lithography machines have become the go-to in recent years for producing advanced processors used in everything from smartphones, notebooks, and datacenter CPUs and GPUs. The US Commerce Department expects to bring the first EUV lithography machines online in 2025 with more sophisticated high-numerical-aperture EUV equipment coming the following year.

Oh, and if the Albany NanoTech Complex sounds familiar, that's because it's already the home of IBM's semiconductor research fab.

The agencies argue the NSTC R&D center will be critical ...