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Top State Department official visits ASU to kick off international semiconductor supply chain initiative
March 07, 2026 | ASU News
Ramin Toloui, assistant secretary of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, tours the university’s MacroTechnology Works facility before meeting with ASU and local semiconductor industry leaders.
These ASU professors have a plan to reuse salty wastewater in Arizona — and save money
January 28, 2026 | KJZZ
With Arizona in drought and cuts likely coming to the state’s allocation of Colorado River water, lots of people are looking for ways to conserve the water we do have.
And that means folks are trying to get creative. Two Arizona State University professors think they’ve figured out a piece of this puzzle.
Applied Materials and Arizona State University Celebrate Opening of ‘Materials-to-Fab’ Center
October 9, 2025 | Semiconductor Digest
Applied Materials, Inc. and Arizona State University (ASU) today marked the official opening of the Materials-to-Fab Center, a shared world-class $270 million research, development and prototyping facility inside the university’s MacroTechnology Works at ASU’s Research Park in Tempe. A ribbon-cutting event was held at the Center as semiconductor industry leaders from around the globe gathered in nearby Phoenix for the SEMICON West conference.
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