(The Center Square) – Another semiconductor facility is being built in Texas, this time, a quantum-enhanced semiconductor metrology facility at the University of Texas-Austin.
A $4.8 million, taxpayer-funded Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant has been awarded to the Texas Quantum Institute at The University of Texas-Austin to build a QLab metrology facility. The institute is part of UT’s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
“Texas is the new frontier of innovation and UT Austin is where world-changing discoveries in quantum research and development are being made,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement. “Through this TSIF grant, QLab will acquire state-of-the-art instrumentation that will be used to advance semiconductor manufacturing in Texas by leveraging new developments in quantum science and technology. Texas will continue to lead the nation with quantum leaps into the future.”…