[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 120 (Monday, July 14, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4325-S4326]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY CENTER

  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

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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.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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