Semi-NY (Semiconductor Manufacturing Initiative – New York) is an innovative and comprehensive effort designed specifically to assist semiconductor manufacturers and suppliers locate and expand in New York State. The program is designed to create strategically placed, pre-permitted sites across New York that accelerate the environmental and plant permitting process and assist in the location of leading edge semiconductor fabrication facilities in New York.

In recognition of his exemplary leadership and steadfast support for semiconductor research, development and commercialization in New York State, Governor George E. Pataki was the first elected public official ever to receive the Semiconductor Industry Association’s (SIA) highest honor, the 2003 Robert Noyce Award. The SIA stated that New York serves as a national model for federal, state and local governments in the creative use of targeted government resources to expand semiconductor R&D and manufacturing activities in the United States.