7/14/2011 10:12:00 AM

Times Union: Gambling with chips

Times Union

MALTA -- When state economic development officials couldn't reach an incentive deal with GlobalFoundries on a second computer chip factory in Saratoga County last month, they may have also failed to land one of the semiconductor industry's next generation manufacturing plants.

Today, most chip companies make microprocessors on 8-inch and 12-inch silicon wafers using what's known as 200 millimeter and 300 millimeter technologies.

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