1/11/2012 11:39:45 AM

The Post-Standard: California defense contractor wants to open Salina nanochip plant, creating 200 high-tech jobs

Washington -- A California defense contractor wants to develop a nanochip manufacturing plant at Electronics Park in Salina, creating about 200 high-tech jobs that would be the first of their kind in New York.

APIC Corp., a Los Angeles company that has pioneered the integration of photonics technology with electronics, says it would like to open the chip fabrication plant by the end of the year.

APIC, partnering with the Department of Defense and SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, would make a new generation of chips for the U.S. Navy to use in the avionics for ships, submarines and planes. Full article