Editing New Mexico (section)

=== Technology ===
New Mexico is part of the larger Rio Grande Technology Corridor, an emerging alternative to [[Silicon Valley]]<ref name="StackPath">{{cite web |title=StackPath |url=https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/test-measurement/article/21209034/will-the-rio-grande-tech-corridor-become-the-silicon-valley-of-new-mexico |access-date=January 1, 2023 |website=StackPath |date=December 11, 2018 |archive-date=July 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709175519/https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/test-measurement/article/21209034/will-the-rio-grande-tech-corridor-become-the-silicon-valley-of-new-mexico |url-status=live }}</ref> consisting of clusters of science and technology institutions stretching from [[San Juan Mountains|southwestern]] Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico.<ref name="Cao 2020">{{cite web | last=Cao | first=Sissi | title=Why Elon Musk And Other Tech Billionaires Are Leaving Silicon Valley For Texas | website=Observer | date=December 15, 2020 | url=https://observer.com/2020/12/elon-musk-tech-leaving-silicon-valley-for-texas-billionaires/ | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163855/https://observer.com/2020/12/elon-musk-tech-leaving-silicon-valley-for-texas-billionaires/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The constituent New Mexico Technology Corridor, centered primarily around Albuquerque, hosts a constellation of high technology and [[scientific research]] entities, which include federal facilities such as [[Sandia National Laboratories]], [[Los Alamos National Laboratories|Los Alamos National Laboratory]], and the [[Very Large Array]]; private companies such as [[Intel]], [[HP Inc.|HP]], and Facebook; and academic institutions such as the [[University of New Mexico]] (UNM), [[New Mexico State University]] (NMSU), and [[New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology|New Mexico Tech]].<ref name="Muska 2015">{{cite web | last=Muska | first=D. Dowd | title=Las Cruces Sun-News | website=PNM2 | date=May 18, 2015 | url=https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/05/18/d-dowd-muska-internet-regulation-and-nm-technology/32307223/ | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163854/https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/05/18/d-dowd-muska-internet-regulation-and-nm-technology/32307223/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Martin 2021">{{cite web | last=Martin | first=Dylan | title=Intel's $3.5B New Mexico Campus Upgrade To Boost Next-Gen Chips | website=CRN | date=May 3, 2021 | url=https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-s-3-5b-new-mexico-campus-upgrade-to-boost-next-gen-chips | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163854/https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/intel-s-3-5b-new-mexico-campus-upgrade-to-boost-next-gen-chips | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Lorenz 2022">{{cite news | last=Lorenz | first=Rachel | title=Meet the leader of an ABQ IT services firm that's been adapting – since 1955 | newspaper=Albuquerque Journal | date=November 11, 2022 | url=https://www.abqjournal.com/2548740/meet-the-leader-of-an-abq-it-services-firm-thats-been-adapting-since-1955.html | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=December 15, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215042027/https://www.abqjournal.com/2548740/meet-the-leader-of-an-abq-it-services-firm-thats-been-adapting-since-1955.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Albuquerque Journal 2022">{{cite news | title=Winners of the 2022 NAIOP New Mexico Awards of Excellence | newspaper=Albuquerque Journal | date=December 10, 2022 | url=https://www.abqjournal.com/2556529/winners-of-the-2022-naiop-new-mexico-awards-of-excellence.html | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163850/https://www.abqjournal.com/2556529/winners-of-the-2022-naiop-new-mexico-awards-of-excellence.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Herron Herron 2021">{{cite web | last=Herron | first=Gary | title=New park has many possibilities | website=Rio Rancho Observer | date=July 22, 2021 | url=https://rrobserver.com/new-park-has-many-possibilities/ | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163850/https://rrobserver.com/new-park-has-many-possibilities/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Most of these entities form part of an "ecosystem" that links their researchers and resources with private capital, often through initiatives of local, state, and federal governments.<ref name="ReferenceC">{{Cite news |title=New Mexico scientists have formed nearly 150 bioscience startups in just the past 10 years. The rest of the country is starting to notice |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |url=https://www.abqjournal.com/2564749/bioscience-dominates-nms-startup-landscape.html |access-date=2023-01-16 |archive-date=January 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116195209/https://www.abqjournal.com/2564749/bioscience-dominates-nms-startup-landscape.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

New Mexico has been a science and technology hub since at least the mid-20th century, following heavy federal government investment during the Second World War. Los Alamos was the site of [[Project Y]], the laboratory responsible for designing and developing the world's first atomic bomb for the [[Manhattan Project]]. Horticulturist [[Fabián García]] developed several new varieties of peppers and other crops at what is now NMSU, which is also a leading [[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|space grant college]]. [[Robert H. Goddard]], credited with ushering the space age, conducted many of his [[Robert H. Goddard#Roswell, New Mexico|early rocketry tests in Roswell]]. Astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh]] of Las Cruces discovered Pluto in neighboring Arizona. Personal computer company [[Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems|MITS]], which was founded in Albuquerque in 1969, brought about the "[[microcomputer revolution]]" with the development of the first commercially successful [[microcomputer]], the [[Altair 8800]]; two of its employees, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, later founded [[Microsoft]] in the city in 1975.<ref name="NMSU">{{cite web | title=University Archives Collections – New Mexico State University – BE BOLD. Shape the Future. | website=NMSU | url=https://lib.nmsu.edu/archives/ua.html | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163850/https://lib.nmsu.edu/archives/ua.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="OSTI.GOV U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information 1954">{{cite web | title=Manhattan Project: Establishing Los Alamos, 1942–1943 | website=OSTI.GOV | date=April 12, 1954 | url=https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=December 9, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209054720/https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="The Historical Marker Database 2021">{{cite web | title=Microsoft Founding Historical Marker | website=The Historical Marker Database | date=September 1, 2021 | url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=180827 | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163850/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=180827 | url-status=live }}</ref> Multinational technology company Intel, which has had operations in Rio Rancho since 1980, opened its Fab 9 factory in the city in January 2024, part of its commitment to invest $3.5&nbsp;billion in expanding its operations in the state; it is the company's first high-volume semiconductor operation and the only U.S. factory producing the world's most advanced [[Integrated circuit packaging|packaging solutions]] at scale.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 24, 2024 |title=Intel Opens Fab 9 in New Mexico |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-opens-fab-9-mexico-150000517.html |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US |archive-date=January 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240125225815/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-opens-fab-9-mexico-150000517.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The New Mexican government has aimed to develop the state into a major center for technology startups, namely through financial incentives and public-private partnerships.<ref name="ReferenceC"/> The [[Bioscience|bioscience sector]] has experienced particularly robust growth, beginning with the 2013 opening of a BioScience Center in Albuquerque, the state's first private incubator for biotechnology startups; New Mexicans have since founded roughly 150 bioscience companies, which have received more patents than any other sector.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> In 2017, New Mexico established the Bioscience Authority to foster local industry development; the following year, pharmaceutical company Curia built two large facilities in Albuquerque, and in 2022 announced plans to invest $100&nbsp;million to expand local operations.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> The state is also positioning itself to play a leading role in developing [[quantum computing]], [[quantum dot]], and clean energy technologies;<ref name="Miller 2022">{{cite web | last=Miller | first=Susan | title=New Mexico positions itself as a quantum computing hub | website=GCN | date=April 5, 2022 | url=https://gcn.com/emerging-tech/2022/04/new-mexico-positions-itself-quantum-computing-hub/364072/ | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163849/https://gcn.com/emerging-tech/2022/04/new-mexico-positions-itself-quantum-computing-hub/364072/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="LabNews 2022">{{cite web | title=Could quantum technology be New Mexico's next economic boon? | website=LabNews | date=April 8, 2022 | url=https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2022/04/08/could-quantum-technology-be-new-mexicos-next-economic-boon/ | access-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-date=January 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163900/https://www.sandia.gov/labnews/2022/04/08/could-quantum-technology-be-new-mexicos-next-economic-boon/ | url-status=live }}</ref> the New Mexico Quantum Moonshot initiative seeks to transform the state into a global leader in quantum technologies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lin |first=Belle |date=2025-04-22 |title=New Mexico Wants to Be the Heart of Quantum Computing |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-mexico-wants-to-be-the-heart-of-quantum-computing-3c4f545f |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

New Mexico's high altitude, generally clear skies, and sparse population have long fostered astronomical and aerospace activities, beginning with the ancient observatories of the [[Chaco Culture National Historical Park|Chaco Canyon culture]]; the "Space Triangle" between Roswell, Alamogordo, and Las Cruces has seen the highest concentration rocket tests and launches.<ref name="NM Art-2021">{{Cite web |title=New Mexico Tells New Mexico History {{!}} History: Astronomy and Space |url=https://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/growing-new-mexico/astronomy-and-space/history-astronomy-and-space.html |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=online.nmartmuseum.org |archive-date=January 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116211730/https://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/growing-new-mexico/astronomy-and-space/history-astronomy-and-space.html |url-status=live }}</ref> New Mexico is sometimes considered the birthplace of the [[U.S. space program]], beginning with Goddard's design of the first liquid fuel rocket in Roswell in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MSFC |first=Charmein Johnson |title=NASA – New Mexico Space Grant Consortium – Launch and Learn |url=https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/summer/home/NM_SG_SoI.html |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=www.nasa.gov |language=en |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320223900/https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/summer/home/NM_SG_SoI.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first rocket to reach space flew from [[White Sands Missile Range]] in 1948, and both NASA and the Department of Defense continue to develop and test rockets there and at the adjacent [[Holloman Air Force Base]].<ref name="NM Art-2021" /> New Mexico has also become a major center for [[Private spaceflight|private space flight]], hosting the world's first purpose-built commercial [[spaceport]], [[Spaceport America]], which anchors several major aerospace companies and associated contractors, most notably Branson's [[Virgin Galactic]].<ref name="Defense Innovation Unit 2022">{{cite web |date=August 24, 2022 |title=State of the Space Industrial Base 2022 |url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/3nanhbfkr0pc/6L5409bpVlnVyu2H5FOFnc/7595c4909616df92372a1d31be609625/State_of_the_Space_Industrial_Base_2022_Report.pdf |access-date=January 1, 2023 |website=Defense Innovation Unit |archive-date=January 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101163849/https://assets.ctfassets.net/3nanhbfkr0pc/6L5409bpVlnVyu2H5FOFnc/7595c4909616df92372a1d31be609625/State_of_the_Space_Industrial_Base_2022_Report.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In November 2022, the New Mexico State Investment Council, which manages that state's $38&nbsp;billion sovereign wealth fund, announced it would commit $100&nbsp;million towards America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a new [[venture capital]] firm that will focus on advanced technologies such as microelectronics and semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, new energy sources, synthetic biology and quantum sciences.<ref>{{Cite news |last=James |first=Rod |date=November 22, 2022 |title=New Mexico Pledges $100 Million to Back First Vehicle of America's Frontier Fund |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-mexico-pledges-100-million-to-back-first-vehicle-of-americas-frontier-fund-11669160566 |access-date=2023-01-09 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=January 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109214528/https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-mexico-pledges-100-million-to-back-first-vehicle-of-americas-frontier-fund-11669160566 |url-status=live }}</ref>