Coming To America? Global Companies Lay Down Roots  U.S.
companies aren't the only ones finding the nation more fertile
ground for advanced manufacturing than in the past. Global
corporations have overlooked traditional outsourcing magnets
such as Singapore to invest in small-town America.   Global
Foundries, an Abu Dhabi-based company, recently laid down roots
in upstate New York for its $7 billon semiconductor plant,
hiring 1,300 local residents. The company's decision makers were
impressed by the town of Malta's investments in the region's
infrastructure and workforce.    It doesn't hurt that a network
of 17 community colleges and one local high school has begun to
supply the area with highly trained high-tech workers of need to
Global Foundries, which produces silicon wafers for
semiconductors.    "These machines, our technicians, are doing
extremely advanced manufacturing work," observed company
spokesman Travis Bullard recently to ABC News.    More, however,
still needs to be done to build the workforce