Arizona is on the rise with top notch talented labor pool, educational infrastructure, business environment, quality of life, cost of living and supply of land. ASU has been named the most innovative university in the country the last four consecutive years by US News & World Report.
Intel has poured tens of billions into multiple semiconductor fabrication plants while locally HQed ON and Microchip have grown into multi-billion dollar firms. NXP, Qorvo, Marvell and Maxim Integrated all have a presence here. The IDEA project (Innovation, Discovery, Education and Arts) is under construction now as well for a bio-tech campus of five buildings covering 18 acres of land and 1.2 million square feet.