The sheer scale of the US's investment in nanotechnology hits you when you read that the Albany campus of the State University of New York alone is to receive $435 million for a new centre of excellence. The new Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery and Exploration (INDEX) - we wonder how long it took them to come up with that acronym - is one of two to be created in the USA. The other is, perhaps inevitably, going to Silicon Valley.
The Governor of New York, George E. Pataki, is naturally delighted by the move and has joined the local cheer leading. Then again the state did chip in with $80 million in matching funds "to help INDEX establish the scientific, technical and manufacturing infrastructure".
The new operation will be at the existing Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics which has already attracted such companies as Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Intel, Micron Technology and Texas Instruments.
New York State even has its own web site dedicated to nanotechnology.
The Governor of New York, George E. Pataki, is naturally delighted by the move and has joined the local cheer leading. Then again the state did chip in with $80 million in matching funds "to help INDEX establish the scientific, technical and manufacturing infrastructure".
The new operation will be at the existing Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics which has already attracted such companies as Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Intel, Micron Technology and Texas Instruments.
New York State even has its own web site dedicated to nanotechnology.
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