February 2019 - The Next Silicon Valley

Is Samsung eyeing Tech Valley and GlobalFoundries NY chip fabs?

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Samsung Electronics is reportedly eyeing New York’s Tech Valley – and a buyout of GlobalFoundries upstate chip manufacturing operations – as part of a major expansion of the Korean company’s…

Tech Valley New York college building $14.5-million center for manufacturing workforce training

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Hudson Valley Community College – in New York’s Tech Valley – is building a $14.5-million, 37,000-sq.-ft. advanced manufacturing center to train CNC machinists, toolmakers, CNC programmers, and industrial maintenance personnel.…

Idealab incubator comes to NY’s Tech Valley

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Rhinebeck, NY, in the Hudson River’s Tech Valley, is the the new home of a new Idealab business incubator focused on early stage company creation. The new startup studio will…

Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare: Made in India, by India

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Silicon Valley tech giants, among them Amazon, Google and Facebook, are coming under increasing public, administrative, and national scrutiny over internal company policies that govern how they operate, locate, and…

The Great, the Bad, and the Ugly in Silicon Valley

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

If Silicon Valley looked in a mirror, here’s what it would see: income disparity is a problem; the Valley is adding high-income households, but it is losing middle-income and low-income…

Winter in Silicon Valley, China Sizzles

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Photo: China is building a particle collider almost four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it is expected to produce over one million Higgs boson particles in…

Reports: Is New York GlobalFoundries looking for an exit?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

This posting clarifys an error in the second paragraph of an earlier story that incorrectly identified the wafers produced at GF’s fabs in New York as 200mm. They are in…

GlobalFoundries New York: For Sale?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

GlobalFoundries chipmaking operation in New York – the one taking a pass on the 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process node – is up for sale according to industry source ComputerBasereport. “A…

Jobs and New York’s Green New Deal

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Clean Tech, and New York’s Green New Deal, have common objectives: cleaner air, fewer emissions, more efficient fuel use. If that mix leads to the development of new technology, new…

30 Tech Hot Spots in New York

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

If you drive a car in New York you have probably driven by at least one or two officially designated ‘innovation hot spots,’ maybe in an old industrial zone? And…