Member News December 2024 Archives - Arizona Technology Council

TSMC Enhances DEI Efforts to Create Industry-Wide Impact

TSMC News Talent is TSMC’s important asset. In response to global expansion and a more diverse talent pool, TSMC updated its “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement” in 2024 to enable employees to excel in suitable positions and promote mutual learning. The company launched a series of activities under the theme “Bringing New DEI Statement to Live!” focusing ...

Raytheon, Ursa Major say flight test successful for next-gen Army missile motor

Tucson-based Raytheon and Colorado-based Ursa Major have been jointly working to develop affordable, long-range precision munitions for the U.S. Army. Phoenix Business Journal Raytheon’s Tucson-based missile manufacturing operation this week announced a successful test for an advanced long-range military solid rocket motor it is developing with Colorado aerospace propul...

Semicon Valley: The Emergence of Arizona’s Semiconductor Landscape

inBusiness PHX At the inception of the semiconductor industry in the 1950s, the United States represented 100% of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing capacity due to its origins in the U.S. defense industry. Today, that number has dropped to 8%. With the increasing cost of integrated device manufacturing in the 1980s, the semiconductor industry was prompted to outso...

DAS Technology Launches New AI Engage CX Messaging Solution Driving Higher Website Conversion

DAS Technology News DAS Technology, automotive’s leading consumer engagement SaaS AI technology company, with the industry’s first and largest next-level Consumer Data & Experience Platform® (CDXP), is pleased to announce the launch of its new AI Engage Messaging Solution. The DAS solution combines the strength of its AI-powered messaging technology featuring patente...

Phoenix Community Alliance Announces 2024 Center City Award Winners

Phoenix Community Alliance Every year since 1993, Downtown Phoenix’s premier business leadership and advocacy organization, Phoenix Community Alliance (PCA), thoughtfully hand-selects luminaries who have positively contributed to and impacted Downtown Phoenix’s continuous transformation and presents them with a Center City Award. For 2024, PCA is pleased to announce that ...

ASU-Led Southwest Advanced Prototyping Hub Awarded $21.3M for Second Year of Funding for Microelectronics Projects

inBusiness PHX The Southwest Advanced Prototyping (SWAP) Hub, led by Arizona State University, has been awarded $21.3 million in Year 2 funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to continue its work advancing the rebirth of America’s microelectronics industry. ASU will receive $18.6 million, with an additional $2.7 million going to Sandia National Laboratories, a lead partne...

Banner – University in Phoenix Receives Grant for Innovative Diagnostic Tool

inBusiness PHX Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix is one of seven health care systems in the nation to be awarded a $100,000 grant by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement that will support the implementation of a new diagnostic tool used to detect delirium in patients. The Diagnostic Excellence – Age-Friendly Health Systems Seed Grant program, supported by the...

Boeing’s Plan For Modernized AH-64 Apaches Serving Into The 2060s

twz.com Boeing is busily planning for future upgrades to the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. While the scope of what is tentatively known as the Modernized Apache has been scaled back somewhat compared to how it once looked, the company is considering the lessons of the war in Ukraine as it seeks to optimize the AH-64 so that it can continue to serve the U.S. Army into the 206...

Next-Generation Datacenters like Microsoft Consume Zero Water for Cooling

inBusiness PHX This summer, we released our Datacenter Community Pledge, detailing our commitment to the local economies and communities in which we operate our datacenters. Protecting local watersheds is an important part of this pledge — especially in areas where water stress is growing. Beginning in August, Microsoft launched a new datacenter design that optimizes AI wor...

New tech company Hyperion Technologies wants to complete Arizona’s semiconductor ecosystem

Sam Salama is the president and CEO of a newly formed semiconductor substrate manufacturer called Hyperion, which wants to build a huge facility in Arizona. Phoenix Business Journal Arizona-based Hyperion Technologies Inc. wants to fill a gap in the nation’s emerging semiconductor ecosystem. The fledgling company has proposed a leading-edge, fully automated manufacturin...

TSMC may make much-anticipated AI chips for Nvidia in Arizona, report says

Phoenix Business Journal Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. may produce Nvidia‘s Blackwell artificial intelligence chips in Arizona, according to a Reuters report. TSMC is in discussions with Nvidia to potentially begin Blackwell chip production at its north Phoenix fab early next year, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Nvidia̵...

PADT Deepens Commitment to Arizona Manufacturing as State’s First NOCTI Certified Additive Manufacturing Site

PADT, Inc. News Local College, University, Vocational, and Trade School Educators Can Receive Training To Establish a 3D Printing Curriculum To Prepare Students for Jobs in the State’s Fast-Growing Advanced Manufacturing PADT, a globally recognized provider of numerical simulation, product development, and 3D printing products and services, announced today that it has ac...

Intel’s ‘core strategy’ remains intact amid changes, new co-CEO says

Phoenix Business Journal Intel Corp.’s “core strategy” remains intact and the chipmaker will continue to focus on its transition to a “world-class foundry” while maintaining a strong product side of the business, Dave Zinsner, the company’s newly appointed interim co-CEO, said Wednesday. Intel “stands by” its fourth quarter guidance and will provide a ...

Council Members BreatheEV and Carbon Utility Named 2024 Arizona Innovation Challenge winner

AZ Big Media The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) announced today 10 awardees have been selected for the 2024 Arizona Innovation Challenge (AIC). The AIC is designed to advance innovation and technology commercialization opportunities in Arizona by helping early-stage ventures scale. The 10 companies will be added to the Arizona Innovation Challenge portfolio. The 2024 AIC ...

ASU on the cusp of becoming a $1B research university

Researchers Mark Li (left) and Robert Vyne work inside the clean room area at the MacroTechnology Works research facility in the ASU Research Park in Tempe, Arizona. Photo by Deanna Dent/ASU ASU News Once a fledgling research school, Arizona State University soon will hit $1 billion in annual research funding, placing the university into a rare category ...

DAS Technology Takes Presence to New Heights with State-of-the-Art Penthouse Headquarters in Scottsdale

dastechnology.com 11th-story Camelback Tower penthouse office, featured in The Simpsons and the former condo of Barry Goldwater’s grandson, has 360-degree unobstructed views of Phoenix and Scottsdale DAS Technology, automotive’s leading consumer engagement SaaS technology company, with the industry’s first next-level Consumer Data & Experience Platform® (CDXP), has ...