Texas Tech University Gets $19.1 Million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund Grant for Next-Generation Computing Cluster
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on November 12 that a Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant of $19,108,579 has been extended to Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas, for its next-generation computing cluster project.
Governor Abbott said Texas is where higher education research powers real-world innovation, and that the bright minds in public research institutions like Texas Tech, equipped with tools that accelerate learning, will advance America's leadership in semiconductor research and development. TTU's project will use a network of interconnected high-performance servers designed to function as a single unified system to handle massive, parallel workloads.
Texas Tech University President Lawrence Schovanec thanked the governor and state leaders for the investment, saying it will expand the university's ability to apply advanced computing to challenges that matter to Texas. Chancellor Brandon Creighton said that with NVIDIA's most advanced computing technology coming to Texas Tech, the university will have the fastest and most powerful computing capability at any public research university in the nation, and that together with the Texas Tech Innovation Hub and Reese National Security Complex the investment will accelerate research, develop talent and strengthen national security.
State Senator Charles Perry and State Representative Carl Tepper also welcomed the investment for West Texas. Governor Abbott signed the Texas CHIPS Act into law in 2023 to establish the TSIF and the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium, administered by the Texas CHIPS Office within the Office of the Governor.
Source: Office of the Governor of Texas
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