Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Opening Of America’s First-Ever National Semiconductor Technology Center

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the opening of America’s first-ever National Semiconductor Technology Center in Albany, New York, a transformative milestone for U.S. innovation, job creation, and leadership in advanced chip manufacturing. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

I just got in from Albany in New York State, and it was a very good day for Upstate New York.

America’s first-ever National Semiconductor Technology Center is now officially open for business in Albany, New York.

Today is a day that I have been dreaming about since the time I wrote the CHIPS and Science Law, and when I was writing the NSTC program into the bill. I'd always been thinking of Albany and of Upstate New York.

This new center will be a leading hub for semiconductor innovation – not just in America, but for the world.

This is a great message for all Americans, whether you live in Albany, New York State, or any other part of this great country. There's a bold, vital message that comes from Albany: the future of chips and the most advanced semiconductor chips is here in America, not overseas, not China.

These chips are vital to so many parts of our lives – our phones, and our computers, and our cars, and our national security, and even to the AI systems that are already changing the world.

Albany NanoTech will specifically focus on what's called EUV – Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography – research. It will be one of only two public facilities on Earth to be home to this EUV tool and the only one in America.

So, what does this announcement mean?

It's not just an abstract thing.

It means major chip companies from around the world will have the ability to collaborate in New York on R&D for new chips.

It means startups and other innovators will have access in to the most advanced machinery to experiment and discover new innovations in semiconducting.

It means even more good-paying jobs – J. O. B. S. – at Albany NanoTech and the local economy.

At the end of the day, this announcement, which I've worked so long and hard for since 2017, will help make CHIPS and Science’s vision a reality: boosting American innovation, creating jobs, and making the U.S. the world leader in chip-making.

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