President Barack Obama at the White House May 3, 2012. UPI\/Olivier Douliery\/Pool <\/p>\n
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ALBANY, N.Y., May 4 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama will discuss an emerging U.S. innovation economy at a nanotechnology development and education center, the White House said late Friday. <\/p>\n
Obama is to travel Tuesday to a $14 billion, 800,000-square-foot NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering on the campus of the University at Albany, the White House said in a statement, changing earlier plans. <\/p>\n
Obama was to have gone to a nearly completed $4.6 billion GlobalFoundries Inc. computer chip plant about 20 miles from Albany, but switched \"due to logistical reasons,\" the White House statement said Friday. <\/p>\n
The college is closer to Albany International Airport than the chip-making plant and has better parking and a larger space for public events, said GlobalFoundries, which met with a White House advance team the past two days. <\/p>\n
GlobalFoundries, which is test-manufacturing computer chips and expects to be fully operational this summer, is also still considered an active construction site, said the Milpitas, Calif., company. <\/p>\n
\"It's a massive undertaking and they want to have the right accommodations,\" company spokesman Travis Bullard told The (Saratoga Springs) Saratogian. <\/p>\n
Representatives of GlobalFoundries -- formerly part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest producer of computer chips -- \"will join the president at CNSE,\" the White House statement said. <\/p>\n
About 50 of GlobalFoundries' 1,300 local employees work at CNSE in research roles, Bullard told the newspaper. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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