Investments are being made to finance construction of factories for dozens of companies in the Phoenix area that supply the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and other semiconductor chip makers. To be successful, many local people will need to be effectively educated to perform the necessary skilled factory work. That will require retraining people who have old-school thinking about manufacturing, says Binil Starly, director of the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, part of the Fulton Schools. ASU students are already learning to operate fully functioning modern semiconductor fabrication facilities, Starly says. In addition, the Maricopa County Community College system, from which many students transfer to ASU, is expected to create programs to help fill the semiconductor industry’s talent pipeline.