As part of Gov. Cuomo’s visit to Utica Thursday in which Austrian chip maker AMS announced plans for a $2 billion fab in Marcy, GE said it would become the anchor tenant at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Quad C facility there.

GE will put a silicon carbide packaging center at the Quad C, which would complement a pilot silicon carbide manufacturing line in Albany.

SUNY Poly said that over the next five years 500 jobs would be created by the GE chip packaging lab, with 350 jobs created in the five years after that.

Those jobs and the 1,200 jobs expected to be created by the AMS fab total 2,000 jobs.

Two years ago, Cuomo announced that Hector Ruiz, the former chairman of GlobalFoundries, was planning to create 1,000 jobs as part of a chip packaging research consortium at Quad C.

Cuomo did not mention Ruiz’s company by name in his remarks, according to a transcript of his remarks, but he did mention others from that 2013 Utica announcement.

“Today, in Quad-C, we’re joined by General Electric. General Electric is going to announce that they are establishing their R&D facility here for studying the chip application process. It’s a total of a $200 million investment. $50 million from the State of New York, $150 million from General Electric,” Cuomo said.

“It will create 470 jobs. Average salary will be $91,000. General Electric will be joining companies that have already committed to occupy this building, like Tokyo Electronics, Sematech, and IBM A total of a $1.5 billion investment, which was going to be a total of 1,000 jobs. With GE’s announcement today, it will be a total of 1,470 jobs right here,” the governor said.