Chip R&D Is Accelerating to Keep Pace With AI

Summary

Semiconductor companies and universities are trying to shorten their feedback loop to meet the challenges of the AI era. In recent years, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, the University of California at Berkeley , Arizona State University , Virginia Tech , and others have been building closer links with industrial partners, as both sides seek to speed turning research into business, and inform the next round of research with fresh lessons from industry. Now, the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and five major semiconductor companies announced in May a new US $125 million university-industry hub that takes that idea and runs with it.