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NC State to lead regional semiconductor innovation hub

Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)

Two lab technicians dressed in head-to-toe white protective suits work in a nanofabrication facility.

Jul 26, 2024

Pack power

New semiconductor center builds on more than 30 years of NC State research. 
Iridescent Silicon Microchip

Apr 25, 2024

CHIPS funding fuels two new initiatives backed by NC State

With nearly $50 million through the CHIPS and Science Act, our university will lead a regional innovation hub focused on wide bandgap semiconductors, called CLAWS, and also play a key role in the North Carolina Textile Innovation and Sustainability Engine, one of the first-ever NSF Regional Innovation Engines. 
Aerial view of ongoing construction of the new Wolfspeed materials facility in Chatham County, NC.

Jan 19, 2024

Growing at Wolfspeed

The founders of Cree, Inc. started a company based on the potential of silicon carbide, a finicky but promising compound long employed as an abrasive but with the potential for much more. 
red belltower at night

Oct 4, 2023

NC State to lead regional semiconductor innovation hub

NC State will use its engineering prowess to help shape domestic production of wide bandgap semiconductors.