A $3 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Chicago aims to remove many of the challenges holding back the growth of American semiconductor and chip manufacturing and drive a skilled future workforce.
The NSF ACE-3D Chip Design Hub, awarded as part of The NSF Chip Design Hub program, will be centered at the University of Chicago and led by Farah Fahim, a CASE senior scientist at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and Microelectronics Division Director at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The award will support the expansion of domestic talent pipelines, chip design ecosystems and industrial innovation with the goal of spearheading the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. UChicago and Fermilab staff scientists will collaborate on the UChicago-anchored ACE-3D.