The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Facilities (AMF) Grant

The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Facilities (AMF) Grant is a highly competitive program aiming to bridge the facility, expertise, and capabilities gap typically found among startups in the semiconductor and hard materials space. The relevant capabilities (such as clean rooms, high-purity gases and liquids, hazardous material management, and equipment and process capabilities) are traditionally unavailable to lease and require tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars of capital to build. The Arizona Commerce Authority and Arizona State University have partnered to provide access to discounted shared semiconductor fabrication and characterization equipment with pilot-scale capabilities for those companies that are not presently users or are small users of the facilities. Participants in the program will be provided with a 1:1 funding match for ASU’s Core Facility usage (up to $75,000 per company), effectively lowering the financial entry barrier by half.