Economic Collaborative of Northern Arizona (ECoNA) — Northern Arizona Takes Its Pitch to SEMICON West

Good afternoon,

Arizona’s semiconductor industry is expanding, and the companies that support it are looking for places to grow. Recently, ECoNA brought a delegation from the City of Flagstaff and City of Winslow to SEMICON West in San Francisco.

Our group met with more than 20 companies during the expo, which is North America’s premier trade conference for the microelectronics and semiconductor industries.

Our message was intentional. We were not there to recruit a semiconductor fabrication facility, but to connect with the suppliers that support them and have more flexible location requirements: companies in advanced packaging, logistics, and technical services that don’t need to be in the Phoenix metropolitan area to serve Arizona’s growing industry.

To show what northern Arizona has available, we highlighted four featured industrial sites:

• 5055 Ken Morey Dr. (Bellemont): a 129,000-square-foot building on 25 acres, with utilities and a rail spur on site, one mile from I-40.
• Northern Arizona Tech Park (Flagstaff): 31.45 shovel-ready acres with utilities and fiber optic access, five minutes from NAU.
• Winslow Industrial Park: 1,500 acres with rail, water and gas lines, and a direct connection to the BNSF Transcon.
• 260 Corridor (Camp Verde): 500 acres along 6.75 miles of State Route 260, about 60 minutes from TSMC, with a labor shed that reaches nearly 1.4 million workers within a 90-minute commute.

The day before the conference opened, I attended the Taiwan Supply Chain Forum, an invitation-only event that brought together more than 130 semiconductor industry leaders and representatives from Taiwan and the United States. The focus was strengthening international partnerships and expanding domestic semiconductor supply chains.

Taiwanese suppliers expressed a strong interest in establishing a U.S. presence to support semiconductor manufacturers, specifically Intel and Micron. The U.S. Department of Commerce also spoke about the nation’s goal of becoming a global supplier of complete intelligence systems, rather than exporting individual technologies.

Thank you to the leaders from Flagstaff and Winslow who joined us and represented our region so well. We’re following up with each company we met, and we look forward to sharing more as those conversations develop.