Researchers to develop cmos fet successor
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Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a leading university research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a partnership to support research and innovation in nanoelectronics. Their goal is to develop a successor to the cmos fet ‘building block’ and to demonstrate its feasibility during the next decade.
NIST will contribute $2.76million to the effort during the next year. When combined with industry funds, the project will hold $4m of research grants. However, the partnership aims to provide $18.5m over five years to fund high priority research projects identified by the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI).
“This is an exciting match in many ways. NRI is gaining not only a new funding partner, but one with deep technological expertise,” said Jeff Welser, pictured, director of the SRC-NRI. “This will be made a true partnership with strong collaboration among NRI and NIST researchers for scientific input on the ongoing NRI university research programs.”
“By selecting NRI for long term partnership, we are facilitating research that will continue critical advances in future generation computer technology,” said James Turner, NIST’s acting director. “By collaborating with NRI sponsored researchers, NIST will be able to ensure that its programs focus on developing critical measurement tools likely to accelerate advances in the nanoelectronics field.”
Companies participating in NRI include AMD, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Micron Technology and Texas Instruments.
