[caption id="" align="alignright" width="304"] The SUNY Polytechnic Institute Campus in Albany, New York. | Donna Abbott Vlahos[/caption]

Mitsubishi Chemical is joining SUNY Polytechnic Institute's chemical mechanical planarization center in Albany, New York.

The center is a joint project between SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Sematech, a consortium of computer chip makers and suppliers that design and manufacture chips used in devices such as cell phones and calculators.

Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is a polishing process used to remove unwanted materials from silicon wafers, the discs on which computer chips are etched.

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Apr 13, 2015, 12:20pm EDT | Tom Caprood