By J. Graber | Daily Independent (abridged)
With companies like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company building a new facility in Phoenix, the Valley is quickly turning into a global hub for microchip manufacturing, and Scottsdale will soon be part of that picture.
ASM (Advanced Semiconductor Materials), a global company founded in the Netherlands that makes machines that make semiconductor chips, announced plans to move its North American headquarters from Phoenix to Scottsdale, and that vision could be complete by early next year, according to a spokeswoman for the company.
The company tentatively plans to open the doors on its 400,000-square-foot building earmarked for administration and research and development uses sometime in the first quarter of 2027.
“As ASM’s largest R&D center worldwide, the new Scottsdale facility will serve as our U.S. flagship hub for innovation, bringing together our people, currently distributed across multiple Valley locations,” the company said in an unattributed statement to the Daily Independent.
“By uniting our scientists, engineers, and corporate support teams in a collaborative environment, we can accelerate our work in materials discovery and continue to drive the future of semiconductors. We are excited to strengthen ASM’s global innovation network from Arizona, where for more than 50 years our teams have been advancing materials science and helping turn breakthrough discoveries into the technologies that power the world.”
The company’s investment on the new facility at the corner of Mayo Boulevard and Miller Road is expected to exceed $500 million.
ASM currently has more than 1,100 employees in Arizona. The company had said in 2024 that it intends to add another 500 jobs in the future, but a spokeswoman for the company has since said that number could change.
The average salary for the new jobs was predicted in 2024 to be $110,000 annually.
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