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National Semiconductor Technology Center

Floor Speech

Date: July 14, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, and finally, a very good day. I just got in from Albany in New York State. It was a very good day for Upstate New York. This morning, I was up in Albany to make a very exciting announcement years in the making. America's first ever national semiconductor technology center is now officially open for business in Albany, NY, in Upstate New York.

Today is the day I have been dreaming about since the time I wrote the Chips and Science law and when I was writing the NSTC program into the bill. I had always been thinking of Albany and of Upstate New York.

This center will be a leading hub for semiconductor innovation, not just in America but the whole world. This is a great message for all Americans. Whether you live in Albany, New York State, or any other part of this great country, there is a bold, vital message that comes from Albany: The future of chips and the most advanced semiconductor chips is here in America--not overseas, not China.

These chips are vital to so many parts of our lives--our phones and computers and our cars and our national security and even to the AI systems that are already changing the world. Albany NanoTech will specifically focus on what is called EUV, extreme ultraviolet lithography research. It will be one of only two public facilities on Earth to be home to this EUV tool and the only one in America.

So what does this announcement mean? It is not just an abstract thing. It means major chip companies from around the world will have the ability to collaborate in New York in R&D for new chips. It means startups and other innovators will have access to the most advanced machinery to experiment and discover new innovations in semiconducting. It will even mean more good paying jobs--J-O-B-S--at Albany NanoTech and the local economy.

We all worried that China would gain the lead on this chip production. Well, now we have the answer, and that is the Albany NanoTech Center. No. 1 place in the United States and in the world for the new high-end research into semiconductor chips.

At the end of the day, this announcement, which I have worked so long and hard for since 2017--at the end of the day, this announcement will help make chips and science a reality, boosting American innovation, creating American jobs, making the United States the world leader in chipmaking.

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