A new facility that services equipment used to make computer chips is coming to Austin.
Pennsylvania-based Quantum Global Technologies is set to receive a grant of $3,074,255 from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund for a new services facility in Austin. The new facility is expected to create 287 new jobs and generate more than $43 million in investment.
Quantum’s services include high purity parts cleaning, process tool part recoating and high-sensitivity micro contamination analysis for semiconductor device makers and wafer fabrication equipment markets. Upon completion, the facility will become Ultra Clean’s first location in North America equipped to service semiconductor fabrication chamber tool sets used in the creation of 2nm chips.
“Texas is the hub for semiconductor innovation,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a Thursday news release announcing the grant. “This investment by QGT to expand its operations in Austin will create hundreds of high-skilled jobs and strengthen a critical domestic supply chain for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing in our state. Texas is where the technologies of today power the innovation of the future.”
“Central Texas continues to be a wellspring of opportunity, with quality, good-paying jobs on the cutting edge of innovation,” Texas State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D-Austin) said Thursday. “I welcome Quantum Global Technologies’ expansion in Central Texas and look forward to how their growth here will create more prosperity for our neighbors today and generations to come.”
It is currently unclear where the new facility will be located, but Quantum’s parent company – California-based Ultra Clean Holdings – already has a presence in the Austin area, with a facility on Parmer Lane in Manor.