Why we build here
For critical technologies, manufacturing location is a strategic decision. SkyWater combines trusted U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, collaborative engineering, and secure domestic production to help customers build resilient supply chains, protect innovation, and scale with confidence.
Manufacturing is a strategic advantage
For decades, semiconductor manufacturing shifted overseas in pursuit of lower costs and greater capacity. Today, governments, industry leaders, and technology innovators increasingly recognize that resilient domestic manufacturing is essential to economic competitiveness, national security, and long-term innovation.
Manufacturing close to home improves visibility, strengthens supply chains, protects intellectual property, and enables closer collaboration throughout the product lifecycle.
As the largest exclusively U.S.-based semiconductor foundry and the only one free of foreign controlling interest, SkyWater was built around this philosophy: helping customers transform breakthrough ideas into products manufactured securely, reliably, and at scale.
Supply chains have become strategic infrastructure
The global semiconductor landscape has fundamentally changed. Geopolitical uncertainty, growing demand for secure technologies, and increasing pressure to reduce dependence on overseas manufacturing have elevated semiconductor supply chains from an operational concern to a national strategic priority.
For customers, this means manufacturing location has moved beyond a cost decision to a resilience decision.
SkyWater helps organizations strengthen semiconductor supply chain security through U.S.-based manufacturing, collaborative engineering, and domestic production that reduces exposure to global disruptions while protecting critical intellectual property. By strengthening relationships with domestic suppliers and investing in a resilient U.S. sourcing ecosystem, we ensure greater reliability, faster responsiveness, and long‑term stability across the semiconductor value chain.
Domestic Production
Keep Innovation and Manufacturing Here
America continues to lead the world in scientific discovery, yet too often groundbreaking technologies are manufactured elsewhere. Recent federal investments through the CHIPS and Science Act reflect a growing recognition that long-term technology leadership depends not only on innovation, but on the ability to manufacture that innovation domestically.
SkyWater has championed this philosophy since its founding.
Our Technology-as-a-Service model enables customers to move from concept through commercial production within the United States, creating greater continuity between research, engineering, and manufacturing while helping strengthen America’s semiconductor ecosystem.
Whether developing advanced sensors, medical technologies, aerospace systems, or next-generation computing platforms, customers gain a manufacturing partner invested in both technological success and domestic production.
TRUST IS MORE THAN GEOGRAPHY
Building in America is an important first step. For some technologies, manufacturing requires an even higher level of assurance.
SkyWater supports trusted semiconductor manufacturing through DMEA Category 1A Trusted Foundry accreditation at our Minnesota and Florida facilities, enabling secure production for defense and other mission-critical applications where manufacturing integrity is essential. This accreditation applies to designated manufacturing operations and reflects the disciplined manufacturing practices and operational controls required for some of the nation’s most sensitive technologies.
As secure supply chains become increasingly important across both government and commercial sectors, trusted manufacturing provides confidence that extends beyond location alone.
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The future of semiconductor manufacturing will be defined by secure partnerships, trusted production, and the ability to transform innovation into reality.
BUILD WHAT’S NEXT, BUILD IT HERE
Whether you’re developing critical defense technologies, biomedical devices, industrial systems, automotive platforms, or quantum computing, SkyWater provides the domestic manufacturing foundation to help bring your ideas from concept to commercial production.