Don’t just take our word for it, however: industry giants Motorola, Intel, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Microchip, Hyundai Engineering, ON Semiconductor, VLSI Technology, Freescale Semiconductor, Insight Enterprises, NXP, Benchmark Electronics, STMicroelectronics, First Solar, Honeywell, Marvel, Philips, Western Digital, Medtronic, and many others have all chosen to call the Arizona desert home for their manufacturing and development.