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New York’s Tech Valley, RPI, host FIRST Robotics Competition

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host the three-day New York Tech Valley FIRST Robotics Competition which gets underway in Troy on March 7, 2019. The event will bring together student teams…

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…

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…

ResilienX, Inc. in final round for GENIUS NY award

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

ResilienX, Inc. (www.resilienx.com), a company co-founded by four Clarkson University alumi is one of five finalists in round three GENIUS NY awards. GENIUS NY is the world’s largest business accelerator…

NY Power Authority to Integrate Lidar Tech, Drones for inspections

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has received a $125,000 grant from the American Public Power Association (APPA) Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program to research and integrate…

Gamer Con to showcase Tech Valley’s video game development cluster

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Richard Wallace |

The video games market is larger than the music and movie business combined. Now, thanks to a growing ecosystem of new gamer studios and software developers that are making New…