UNIVERSITY RECEIVES $20 MILLION GRANT FOR CLOUD-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR LAB

BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 4 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

A team of Virginia Tech researchers received a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cloud-based semiconductor laboratory.

The Virginia Tech Programmable Cloud Laboratory (PCL) Node will allow the team to make the university's semiconductor facilities remotely accessible to a range of users as part of a nationwide network of AI-enabled automated laboratories. As one of 20 teams to receive funding in what the National Science Foundation calls "a core ... contribution to the U.S. government's Genesis Mission, a national effort to harness AI for scientific...