BUILDING SEMICON DESERT: WHAT’S NEXT FOR 2026
2025 gave us clarity. We’ve spent the year mapping the terrain — meeting people, visiting universities, and talking to companies on both sides of the border. We’ve learned where the real gaps are: how Sonora still lacks spaces where engineers can learn by doing, and how Arizona’s industry is expanding faster than its local talent can keep up. Between both, there’s a corridor waiting to be built.
2026 is where we start building it.
Our focus is simple: learning and collaboration. Helping engineers in Sonora gain hands-on experience with semiconductor design and technology. Creating projects where universities and companies from both sides of the border work together on real problems.
We’re not in a hurry to launch accelerators or make big announcements. We’re focused on the groundwork — the skills, the partnerships, and the trust that make a real ecosystem possible.
Semicon Desert will stay close to the ground: small steps, steady progress, open doors for anyone who wants to help.
That’s how new industries begin — not with big announcements, but with builders learning together and refusing to stop.
