After being held for more than half a century in San Francisco, North America’s premier microelectronics exhibition and conference, SEMICON West, will be coming to Arizona in 2027 and 2029. Along with Phoenix emerging in recent years as a major semiconductor industry hub through growing investments in chip manufacturing made in the area, other factors had an influence on the decision to bring SEMICON West to Phoenix. Among the main reasons is the Fulton Schools, the largest engineering education program in the U.S. About 7,000 of the Fulton Schools’ 30,000 students are concentrating on studies to prepare them to work in microelectronics and related fields.