A nonprofit organization that will lead an endeavor looking to unify the nation's semiconductor manufacturing and supplier ecosystem has tapped a Carnegie Mellon University professor to serve as one of its inaugural board of trustee members.
Erica R.H. Fuchs, a CMU professor of engineering and public policy who also works in the university's department of materials science and engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, is one of seven board members who will oversee the management of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC).
Much of Fuchs' research has focused on the creation, commercialization and worldwide manufacturing of new technologies, according to her biography on CMU's College of Engineering website. She has played a formidable role nationally and internationally in helping to draft technology policy and has served, among many posts, as a co-chair of the National Academies Committee on U.S. Science and Innovation Leadership in the 21st Century as well as a member in an expert group tasked with supporting the White House during the 2016 Innovation Dialogue between the U.S. and China.
In the weeks and months ahead, her work and that of her fellow board members will be to create an entity that's designed to run and hire executive leadership for the NSTC, itself an initiative spurred by the Department of Commerce’s $50 billion CHIPS for America program that's looking to invest in the research, development and manufacturing of semiconductors for the U.S.
"The NSTC is going to supercharge chip technology and innovation ecosystems across the country so that cutting-edge developments in semiconductor design and manufacturing happen here in the U.S.," Gina Raimondo U.S. Secretary of Commerce, said in a prepared statement. "I am grateful to this outstanding group of leaders for answering the call to serve our nation and advance America’s technological leadership."
