March 17, 2004 – A fifth research center has been added to the $20 million Focus Center Research Program (FCRP), a collaborative effort including the SIA, 30 universities, semiconductor equipment and materials firms, and the federal government.
The center at UCLA, focusing on nanoscale materials, joins other centers in operation at Carnegie Mellon (circuit design), MIT (nanoscale devices), Georgia Institute of Technology (interconects and optoelectronics), and UC-Berkeley (systems design).
The FCRP is managed by a subsidiary of industry consortium Semiconductor Research Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC.