In her Guest Editor Letter for this October edition of In Business Magazine, TSMC Arizona President Rose Castanares cites figures from the Arizona Commerce Authority that Arizona has attracted more than 60 expansions in the semiconductor industry since 2020, representing roughly 25,000 projected new jobs and more than $205 billion in investment — more than any other state. It was 2020 that TSMC added its considerable presence to our business community.
But building economic strength in technology — and semiconductors specifically — had been a focus of our economic development organizations as they worked to break the roller-coaster cycle of our older real-estate-based economy. And Intel has been building this economic sector here for decades.
Semiconductors are, arguably, the economic force of the foreseeable future. Not only as a necessary manufacturing component but for their value to a supply chain spanning, as Castanares says in her letter, “leading-edge manufacturing, R&D, equipment, materials suppliers, advanced packaging, workforce and more.”
In our cover story, we take a close-up look at a few of the companies in our semiconductor ecosystem.
Going for the Gold – Electroplating and More where Precision and Compliance Are Non-Negotiable
MEET C-HAWK TECHNOLOGY
by Chase Zunino, CEO
Global Heritage Meets Deep Scientific Expertise, Driving Semiconductor Innovation Worldwide
MEET EMD ELECTRONICS, the North America Electronics business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
by Katherine Dei Cas, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Delivery Systems & Services and Specialty Gases
Non-Volatile Memory Technology Eliminates the Need for Backup Components
MEET EVERSPIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
by David Schrenk, Vice President of Business Development
Protecting Innovation in Arizona’s Semiconductor Industry
MEET FOAM PACKAGING SPECIALTIES
by Chris Perry, President and CEO
Building the Tools Behind the Chips: How Tempe’s Foresight Fuels a Global Industry
MEET FORESIGHT TECHNOLOGIES
by Jeff Hull, CEO
Decades of Leadership Making Chips, Jobs and Strong Community
MEET INTEL
by Zivit Katz-tsameret, Vice President of Intel Foundry, OTF Fab Manager in Arizona
How Contractors Are Supporting the Semiconductor Surge with Highly Specialized Precision Work
MEET NOX GROUP
by Greg Ayres, President and COO
Changing How Power Is Delivered at Scale and Helping Bolster the Domestic Semiconductor Supply Chain
MEET SARAS MICRO DEVICES, INC.
by Eelco Bergman, Chief Business Officer
Sustainable, Locally Manufactured Energy Storage to Advance Arizona’s Semiconductor Growth
MEET SORBIFORCE, INC.
by Serhii Kaminskyi, Founder and CEO
High-Volume Chip Producer TSMC Arizona: An Economic Engine for the State
MEET TSMC ARIZONA
by Rose Castanares, President
