# Cree to build $1B silicon carbide wafer fab in Marcy, New York

Cree, Inc. announced a public-private partnership with New York State to invest approximately $1 billion over six years to construct and equip a new 200mm silicon carbide wafer fabrication facility at the Marcy Nanocenter on the SUNY Poly campus. The project is expected to create over 600 full-time jobs.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2019-09-01
- Where: Marcy, New York, United States
- Value: $1.00B
- Jobs: 600
- Starts operating: 2024
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 200mm silicon carbide wafers
- Products: silicon carbide wafers
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [Cree](https://endata.com/companies/23782.md)
- [ABB](https://endata.com/companies/1547.md) (partner)
- [ZF](https://endata.com/companies/5885.md) (partner)
- [Exyte](https://endata.com/companies/9158.md) (partner)
- [STMicroelectronics](https://endata.com/companies/21952.md) (partner)
- [State of New York](https://endata.com/companies/42253.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [investor.wolfspeed.com](https://investor.wolfspeed.com/news/news-details/2019/Cree-Announces-Update-to-Capacity-Expansion-Plan---Company-to-Build-Worlds-Largest-Silicon-Carbide-Device-Manufacturing-Facility-in-New-York/default.aspx), 2019-09-23: "Silicon carbide is one of the most pivotal technologies of our time, and is at the heart of enabling innovation across a wide range of today's most groundbreaking and revolutionary markets."
- [suny.edu](https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/9-19/9-23-19-cree/), 2019-09-23: "This partnership is vital to strengthening the research and scientific assets that New York State needs today to attract the high-tech industries and jobs of tomorrow."
- [wolfspeed.com](https://www.wolfspeed.com/company/news-events/news/cree-announces-update-to-capacity-expansion-plan/), 2019-09-23: "The company will build a brand new, state-of-the-art, automotive-qualified 200mm power and RF wafer fabrication facility in Marcy, New York."
- [newsobserver.com](https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article235386847.html), 2019-09-23: "Cree changes plans, will move part of its factory expansion to New York instead of NC"
- [apnews.com](https://apnews.com/general-news-0623c44eea0a4f34b33781c241889878), 2019-09-23: "Cree Inc., a Durham, North Carolina-based semiconductor manufacturer, will invest $1 billion in a new factory in upstate New York"
- [bizjournals.com](https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2019/10/08/cree-utica-semiconductor-factory-reasons.html), 2019-10-08: "Here's why its CEO says the tech manufacturer decided to shift part of the plan to upstate New York."
- [atreg.com](https://atreg.com/newsletters/q4-2019/), 2019-12-15: "Cree has hit the ground running with construction planning, industry partnerships, and local community involvement."

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