NTxSI has been awarded a Tech Titans award in the category Tech Titans Of The Future – College/University for our work in encouraging students to choose engineering and technology related disciplines as a preferred career path..
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Dr. Ron Rohrer, an inventor recognized for pioneering simulation technology for integrated circuit design, joins NTxSI as the associate director of the Center for Harsh Environments Semiconductor Systems (CHESS).
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Apple has partnered with North Texas semiconductor manufacturers Texas Instruments, Coherent, and GlobalWafers in their new American Manufacturing Program to accelerate manufacturing in the U.S., part of a new $100 billion investment that now totals $600 billion over the next four years.
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All About STEM Radio Interviews Dr. Eden Zielinski.
Congratulations to Andres Aguirre on winning the Best Presentation award at the 2025 International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures. Andres presented his paper “D-Mode GaN/AlGaN/GaN MOS-HEMT Test Structures for Evaluating Gate Dielectric Impact on Device Performance”.
Andres is a 4th year graduate student in the UTD Materials Sciences and Engineering Department. His research is focused on the evaluation of gate oxide materials for GaN MOS-HEMTs for space applications. He is a member of the North Texas Semiconductor Institute at UTD, working closely with both the CHESS and C-SPEC divisions of the institute.
Congratulations to our Director for being recognized as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow for his groundbreaking work on ferroelectric random-access memory.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that CHIPS for America awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation (SRC) $285 million to establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute. With a combined total investment of over $1 billion, the new institute, known as SMART USA (Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA) will focus on efforts to more rapidly develop, validate, and use digital twins to improve domestic semiconductor design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, assembly, and test processes.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded Texas Instruments (TI) up to $1.61 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities. This funding will support TI’s investment of more than $18 billion through the end of the decade to construct three new state-of-the-art facilities, including two in Texas and one in Utah.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce issued direct funding awards to GlobalWafers of up to $406 million under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities. These CHIPS investments will support projects with total capital expenditures of approximately $4 billion across Texas and Missouri.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce signed a preliminary memoranda of terms (PMT) under the CHIPS and Science Act to provide up to $33 million in proposed direct funding to Coherent. The proposed investment of would support the modernization and expansion of a state-of-the-art manufacturing cleanroom in Coherent’s existing facility in Sherman.
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