With President Biden touring parts of the country for the passage of the CHIPS Act and the first investments in the U.S. semiconductor industry, one professor and her students at the George Washington University are innovating computer chips as part of a new research agreement between Google, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and a semiconductor manufacturer. GW is one of five academic institutions working with NIST to contribute chip designs in an effort to build a new domestic supply of chips that will advance U.S. semiconductor and nanotechnology industries.
Dr. Gina Adam, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading this effort and using GW's nanofabrication facility as well as NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology to prototype and test new chips. Their efforts are also developing the pipeline needed to address the workforce gap in manufacturing chips.
Learn more below about what their work entails and the impact their work will have on developing the U.S. workforce as well as keeping the U.S. competitive in chip production and innovation. Plus, take a peek inside the clean room where all this work is being done here.
