Industry: Electronics Advantages

sandy — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:38:38 -0600

Electronics Advantages

New Mexico offers the electronics industry a wide variety of financial incentives as part of its commitment to developing its economic base. In addition to commercialization programs, your electronics company can take advantage of venture funding opportunities and research parks and incubators.

The state offers:

Research Affiliations

UNM's Center for High Technology Materials has a national reputation for its work in optoelectronics and microelectronics. It's a 'Center of Excellence' for Sematech.
UNM's Manufacturing Training and Technology Center, trains both UNM students and technicians from Central New Mexico Community College. Its clean room, with equipment donated by Intel, provides space to prototype devices for startup companies like Agiloptics, MEMX, and Radiant Technologies.
New Mexico 9000 helps small companies achieve ISO compliance and certification at a modest cost.
NM High Tech Jobs - Sponsored by Technology Ventures Corporation, this free job-matching service supports New Mexico's technology-based job growth.

Trade Associations

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New Mexico Chapter) -The goals are to promote awareness of quality methods and best practices, and support technology transition through an active program of networking and education
National Electronics Contractors Association (New Mexico Chapter) - represents highly qualified, reliable and experienced electrical contractors

Industry: Electronics Top Employers

sandy — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:12:39 -0700

Electronics Top Employers

Electronics companies looking to expand or relocate to New Mexico will find a very business-friendly climate. The state offers a highly-qualified, productive workforce, low utility rates, affordable business locations and an excellent transportation infrastructure.

'Gazelle' Companies

Locally-grown electronics companies that more than doubled their employment and increased their revenues by 50% in the last three years include:

Delta Group Electronics Inc - Albuquerque; An ISO certified, AS9100 and IPC compliant electronics manufacturing services company
Emcore - Albuquerque; Solar cells and panels for satellites, digital and analog optical modules and composites
Energy Control, Inc - Rio Rancho; Intelligent building systems for heating, air conditioning, security and IT
Sagebrush Technology, Inc - Albuquerque; Gimbals and pan/tilt positioners

Source: The Albuquerque Journal Business Outlook, 'Flying 40' June 2006

Other Electronics Companies

Albuquerque

Academy Precision Materials - Subsidiary of Academy Corp; manufacturer and supplier of products and materials such as thin-film vacuum coatings used by a variety of industries, including electronics
Applied Technology Associates - Precision sensing, measurement and controls
Bi Ra Systems, Inc. - Research, development, manufacture and resale of electronic equipment for laboratories
Bio-Rad CD Systems - (UNM spin-off) Semiconductor metrology tools based on the principle of light scattering
Canberra Aquila, Inc - Subsidiary of Canberra Industries (formerly Aquila Technologies Group) development, manufacture and sale of electronic equipment, including industrial controls, safeguards surveillance and seals, computer systems, and secure computer networks
CTS Wireless Components - Division of CTS Corp; ceramic filters and duplexers; components used in cellular, paging, cordless and wireless applications
Electro Mechanical Services, Inc - Clean room design and build, semiconductor manufacturing training devices
Electronic Technical Services, Inc - Contract electronics engineering and manufacturing; maker of security systems
General Technology Corp. - Business unit of Crane Aerospace & Electronics; contract manufacturer, printed circuit board fabrication, electronic assembly, coating and testing
Gratings, Inc - (UNM spin-off) Advanced lithography and produces small features on wafers and semiconductor materials
InnovASIC, Inc - Semiconductor fabrication and replacement of discontinued integrated circuits
Ktech Corp. - Technical services, industrial equipment manufacturing, gauges and sensors, IT products, and semiconductor cleaning equipment
Mechanical Solutions, Inc - Full service turnkey engineering and manufacturing firm
MEMX, Inc - Lab spinoff founded in 2000. Developing advanced microsystems technology
MPC Design Technologies, Inc - Custom design and manufacturer of printed circuit boards
QorTek Inc. - Development and design of embedded electronics, drivers, actuators, sensors and microcontrollers and supporting software. (Relocated from Pennsylvania in 2005)
Radiant Technologies, Inc. - Thin ferroelectric film technologies and products; engineering services for the semiconductor, materials science, electronic, and optics industries
RESPEC - Integrated consulting and service company
SBS Technologies Inc - Open-architecture, standard bus embedded computer components
SCB Technologies Inc. - (UNM spin-off), Subsidiary of Ensign Bickford Division: Semiconductor bridges used as fuses for detonation of munitions and air bags
Sennheiser Electronic New Mexico LLC - Printed circuit boards for headphones and microphones; wireless headphone system; digital wireless microphone system
Sparton Electronics - Subsidiary of Sparton Corp; manufactures electronic parts for medical, gaming and defense industries
TPL Inc - Advanced Technologies Division; development of advanced dielectric materials for high-performance capacitors
Team Specialty Products Corp. - Develops, fabricates and tests electronic products
Xilinx Inc - Designs and develops logic chips and field programmable gate array chips

Rio Rancho

Intel Corp. - Manufacturer of Pentium Celeron, flash memory and Itanium chips
Lectrosonics Inc - High-end electronic design
Sumco USA - (Formerly Sumitomo Sitix Silicon Inc.) Silicon wafers for customers in the United States, Europe, Asia and Japan

Santa Fe

STAR Cryoelectronics - Develops and manufactures Superconducting Quantum Interference Device sensors and PC-based control electronics products

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NMSS - Industry: Electronics