By MELISSA ANGUIANO , Economic Development Director, City of Roseville, Calif. When Bosch acquired the former TSI Semiconductors fab in Roseville, Calif., it chose to modernize a site with nearly 40 years of semiconductor manufacturing experience rather than build from scratch. Bosch is investing up to $2 billion to convert the facility to silicon carbide production, and sample production on 200mm wafers is now underway at what is Bosch’s first U.S. semiconductor site. Melissa Anguiano, Roseville’s economic development director, describes how each partner played a different role: up to $225 million from the CHIPS Program Office, a $25 million California Competes Tax Credit, regional workforce support, and a full-service city that coordinates permitting and runs its own electric and water utilities. The site employs more than 300 people, and local education partnerships are building skills in mechatronics, automation and advanced manufacturing. The lesson for semiconductor companies, she writes, is that location matters, but so does the ecosystem around the site. Development-ready land, reliable infrastructure, responsive permitting, competitive utilities and access to trainable talent, backed by coordinated local, state and federal support, can provide certainty from site selection through production. Click here to read the full article in Semiconductor Digest magazine. The post Roseville Shows What It Takes to Build Semiconductor Capacity in Northern California appeared first on Semiconductor Digest .