Tag: semiconductors
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EDITORIAL: Dip into CHIPS to grow Springs’ tech sector
Colorado Springs’ aspirations as “Silicon Mountain” got a lift from the City Council last week, when it unanimously approved a proposal to the state to set up the Colorado Springs CHIPS Zone. It should help incentivize the area’s semiconductor industry and its overall tech sector. As The Gazette explained in a Friday news report, a…
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Feds award $75 million to Entegris for tech firm’s new $600 million Colorado Springs manufacturing center
Entegris, the Massachusetts-based supplier of electronic materials for semiconductor makers and other industries, is slated to receive $75 million from a federal program designed to boost the nation’s chipmaking capacity — money that would support construction of the company’s state-of-the-art, $600 million manufacturing facility being built in Colorado Springs. The company and the U.S. Department of…