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Consortium Funds Semiconductor Research in Emirates

Westmere chip set (Intel Corp.)

(Intel Corp.)

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a university-research consortium in Durham, North Carolina, announced seven research contracts will be awarded to four universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The new contracts continue the joint effort between SRC and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) in the UAE begun last year on semiconductor sciences and technologies.

The following universities in UAE are expected to receive the contracts: American University of Sharjah, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates University, and the Masdar Institute. They will conduct their research in collaboration with University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State, Cornell, Purdue, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service (MOSIS) chip foundry.

The seven contracts, selected from some 50 proposals, will be funded for one year at $750,000 with the option to extend the work for at least two more years. The research is expected to contribute to initiatives in minimum-energy electronic systems.

ATIC, created in 2008, is a technology investment company wholly owned by Mubadala Development Company in Abu Dhabi. It makes investments in the advanced technology sector, both locally and internationally, with a mandate to generate long-term benefits to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

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