Technology & Innovation

The clean rooms on Boise's eastern edge produce some of the most advanced memory on earth. Getting there took forty years and a very long bet.

Cheap land and cool climate make the Gem State attractive to hyperscale computing. The grid and the water supply may have other ideas.

Once a place founders left, the city now retains its talent and spawns companies. The ecosystem is thin but, for the first time, self-sustaining.

From soil moisture to snowpack, a wave of companies is instrumenting the physical world — and finding Idaho a perfect testbed.

A cluster of applied-AI startups is building in Boise, wagering that focus and low burn beat the frenzy of the coastal boom.

The fabs need engineers faster than they can be trained. A scramble to build the talent pipeline is reshaping higher education in the state.

With national laboratories and a growing industrial base, the state has become an unlikely center for protecting the systems that keep the lights on.

Startups building the future of farming are discovering that Idaho's vast, sophisticated agricultural operations are the ideal proving ground.

High-speed internet is now essential infrastructure. Extending it across Idaho's vast, sparse geography is a defining challenge.

The sprawling federal complex built its reputation on nuclear research. Now it is positioning itself at the center of the energy transition.

With demand far outstripping supply, employers are getting creative — and rethinking what it takes to attract technical workers to the Gem State.

As the tech industry rediscovers the value of physical products, a state that never stopped making things finds itself unexpectedly in fashion.

When companies sell, the proceeds often leave with them. One entrepreneur is building the institutions to make the money stay and recirculate.

Automation is arriving fastest where labor is scarcest. In Idaho's farms and distribution centers, that is nearly everywhere.

The state's deep bench in materials science and physics is drawing early-stage quantum research to an unlikely corner of the country.

Away from the headlines, a generation of business-software firms has built durable companies serving agriculture, logistics, and manufacturing.

State leaders have concluded that the Gem State's technological future lies in making physical things. The strategy is deliberate and increasingly clear.

As companies bring manufacturing back to North America, Idaho's location, costs, and industrial base make it a contender for the work.