What a great day for Ohio
and what a great day for the United States.
I want to thank everyone who made this possible,
too many to name, but especially Governor Mike DeWine.
The tone starts at the top,
and Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted.
(audience applauding)
Members of our general assembly,
Jobs Ohio president and CEO, JP Nauseef,
Columbus partnership CEO, Kenny McDonald,
and Dr. Grace Wang, Executive Vice President
for the Enterprise for Research Knowledge
and Innovation at Ohio State.
I also want to recognize you as Commerce Secretary,
Gina Raimondo,
Senator Sherrod Brown and Senator Rob Portman.
And our congressmen, Troy Balderson, Mike Carey,
and Bill Johnson.
We thank all of them for joining us today
for this historic announcement.
And as we welcome Mr. Pat Gelsinger and Intel.
Keyvan.
We are so honored to represent Ohio,
I am so honored to represent Ohio's
exceptional higher education sector.
I know that the state's deep and broad educational resources
were key to Intel's decision to choose Ohio for this
and for this semiconductor campus.
And we're all here to help you achieve the vision
that you shared with Leslie Stahl on 60 minutes,
which is that we want Intel and the United States
to rebalance the global chip making capacity.
Today, the majority of advanced semiconductor devices
are fabricated by the Taiwan,
Taiwanese chip manufacturing or TSMC
and Korean chip manufacturer, Samsung.
I know both of these organizations well,
I actually fabricated the first chips I designed
through TSMC,
and I collaborated with Samsung
to integrate these silicon photonic devices
into rear projection display systems.
It's truly exciting that Intel
is going to put the United States back in the business
of state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing,
right here at home, right here in Ohio.
(audience applauding)
I hope you don't mind.
I'm going to go off a little script here, Pat,
just to say, over the past 40 years,
we've watched Moore's law
shrink transistor line widths from microns to nanometers,
and that allows us to drive up the density
of transistors on a chip by a factor of a million.
We've also watched not so famous, but more second law,
which has become a reality too.
And that is the cost of semiconductor processing facilities
also grows non-linearly,
which is why this investment is even more remarkable
40 years on,
but success here will require well-educated scientists,
engineers, technicians, and managers,
and Mr Gelsinger, at the time you joined Intel,
I was carrying out independent research in the clean rooms
of our Alma Mater.
Learning about semiconductor and
photolithographic processing.
And I was taught by technicians
who had gone through the Foothills Community College
semiconductor processing curriculum.
You may remember Foothills Community College.
So I saw firsthand the importance
of a really skilled technical workforce
and the power of connecting two-year
and four-year research institutions.
And as a leading research and land grant institution,
the Ohio State University is delighted to partner
with Ohio Department of Higher Education chancellor,
Randy Gardner,
and with the entire state 14 public universities,
74 private universities, 24 regional campuses,
23 community colleges and 52 other technical centers
on projects that will include faculty training
and curriculum development,
all with the goal of preparing the workforce
to support the semiconductor industry for decades to come.
(audience applauding)
And Mr. Gelsinger,
I think you will discover that our community spirit
here in Ohio, is just as great as our intellectual heft.
Our wonderful partner Columbus State Community College,
led by president David Harrison,
is ready to teach technicians
and operators for the Intel campus.
And then Ohio state,
we are well-prepared to produce the engineers,
the scientists and the business professionals
that this project needs
while enabling exciting collaborations with Intel
to advance research and to serve our country.
In support of a high-tech Renaissance in manufacturing,
Ohio State recently launched a Bachelor of Science degree
in engineering technology or BSET
with a concentration in manufacturing,
at our regional campuses, under the leadership
of Deans William MacDonald and Ayanna Howard.
The program is coming soon to Ohio State Newark.
(audience applauding)
Yeah.
Let me just close with a few observations.
On the way to Newark today,
you might have noticed the absence of new cars
in dealership parking lots,
which is a course about car makers inability
to get semiconductor chips.
Semiconductor manufacturers around the globe
simply cannot keep pace with the pandemic induced demand.
As smartphone makers, defense contractors,
information and communication technology companies,
medical device makers and appliance manufacturers,
all vie for chips.
There are serious economic and national security risk
if we don't boost making chips in the United States.
So today, as we celebrate a great step forward
in Ohio's transformation into the Silicon Heartland,
let's also celebrate this as a win for the national interest
and the new possibilities for our current
and future students.
Given our increasingly diverse student bodies,
Intel semiconductor campus, and the mini spin-out jobs
it will generate can help close racial, ethnic,
and gender gaps in STEM employment and income
because the median STEM salary is 65% more than STEM job,
non-STEM jobs.
At Ohio state, as at Intel,
those of us who have great lives
because of our own access to STEM and STEAM education
are committed to spreading such opportunities
as widely as possible.
Obviously today is just the start of something very big.
The need for Intel semiconductors is only going to grow
as our digital economy expands.
As we apply artificial intelligence
and machine learning to many challenges in our world.
I'm so glad that this is happening in a state
that's made such intelligent investments
in higher education,
and that is ready to lead a global economy
that is growing ever smarter, faster and more sustainable.
Thank you again.
And now I'd like to ask Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted
to come to the podium.