Arizona-based Hyperion Technologies Inc. wants to fill a gap in the nation’s emerging semiconductor ecosystem.
The fledgling company has proposed a leading-edge, fully automated manufacturing plant in the Phoenix metro totaling about 600,000 square feet. The first phase of the project, likely earmarked for the West Valley, represents a $1.5 billion investment, adding to a swell of semiconductor facilities popping up throughout the region.
That facility is expected to create 1,500 direct jobs and domesticate production of advanced, high-density interconnect substrates and interconnect fabrics — “devices that are responsible for operating” semiconductor chips, said Sam Salama, CEO of Hyperion.
“If you imagine chips as pieces of Legos and you have a platform, you take these Legos and put them together to constitute the modern computing s …
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