Times Union

"Tools used in Fab 8 cost about $10 million each, and there are more than 1,000 of them inside the factory clean room. Caulfield declined to provide the exact amount of money the company will spend adding 7-nanometer tools. He also declined to say how much market share the company would have to gain from competitors to justify a second fab. He did say the state would need to keep investing in the semiconductor industry, especially in cutting edge research programs at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany. Fab 8 engineers use SUNY Poly to speed up the development process of chip manufacturing technologies, working with companies like IBM.”

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