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With more than 400 positions filled and hundreds more expected, the Whitsett expansion shows how AI infrastructure demand is creating new electronics manufacturing opportunities.

Lenovo is scaling production and hiring at its expanded North Carolina Smart Campus in Whitsett, where the company manufactures servers and high-performance computing systems. More than 400 positions associated with the expansion have already been filled, and Lenovo expects hiring to reach approximately 1,000 new jobs as production grows.

By Tara Dunn, SMTA Director of Training and Education

If you design, source, or build printed circuit boards and you've heard the term "Ultra HDI" thrown around more often in the last two years, you're not imagining it. It's one of the fastest-moving areas in electronics manufacturing right now, and one of the least well-understood outside of a small circle of specialists.

Forge Nano broke ground August 19 on a major expansion of its lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina. The project will expand the company’s existing 100,000-square-foot operation into a campus approaching 315,000 square feet, with approximately three gigawatt-hours of annual battery-cell capacity planned at full production.