GRC addresses the critical challenges on the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), delivering the solutions that sustain Moore's Law.
FCRP focuses on carrying CMOS to its ultimate limits and beyond, keeping the United States and its industries at the forefront of technology.
The focus of NRI is to demonstrate novel computing devices capable of replacing the CMOS transistor as a logic switch in the 2020 timeframe.
TRCs create research opportunities among the semiconductor industry and other sectors. This innovative applications research, for SRC members and non-members, currently includes the following three areas:
bioelectronics, energy & nanoengineering.
The Alliance, a private foundation, supports a diversity of students at various levels of education in industry-related research, encouraging them to pursue a future in science and engineering.
About Nanoelectronics Research InitiativeAt NRI, the goal is clear: to find a device that can scale computer technology beyond CMOS. Seeing 2020—and BeyondNanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), a consortium of companies in the Semiconductor Industry Association, seeks to accelerate research in nanoelectronics for the benefit of the technology industry. Concentrated in U.S. universities with sponsorship shared by industry and state governments, the goal of NRI is to demonstrate novel computing devices capable of replacing the CMOS transistor as a logic switch in the 2020 timeframe. These devices should show significant advantage over ultimate CMOS transistors in power, performance, density, and/or cost, and enable industry to extend the historical cost and performance trends for information technology. Groundbreaking NRI research is currently being conducted through over 30 universities. The projects are organized into multiuniversity centers (WIN, INDEX, SWAN and MIND) and at NSF nanoscience centers (NSF-NRI). And given the exploratory nature of the research, which seeks out entirely new device and computation technologies, it is particularly important that industry and academia work together closely as research paths develop. Contact
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