{"id":5158,"date":"2022-01-20T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/edfas\/baker-polito-administration-awards-1-million-to-wpi-for-new-semiconductor-security-research-center\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:23:30","slug":"baker-polito-administration-awards-1-million-to-wpi-for-new-semiconductor-security-research-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/edfas\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/46928381\/NEWS\/","title":{"rendered":"WPI receives $1 million for new semiconductor security research center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baker-Polito administration announced a new $999,963 grant from the Collaborative Research and Development Matching Grant program to support a new research center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., focused on the security of semiconductors and hardware critical to key innovation industries.<\/p>\n

The new facility will enable a critical testbed for WPI and partners to work with private industry, utilizing new testing equipment that will be the first of its kind in the Northeast, plus will develop training programs to support the workforce needs of technology companies in the region.<\/p>\n

Lt. Governor Karyn Polito announced the new grant from the Commonwealth through the program managed by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech), which will co-invest in a two-year, $1,999,326 project to develop the new center.<\/p>\n

The state grant will fund the purchase of a new, high-sensitivity, high-resolution semiconductor failure analysis system, the first instrument of its kind in the Northeast. The new R&D tool and related workforce programs will address the strong security needs in the semiconductor industry, enabling integrated chip debugging & diagnosis, and failure analysis. These are critical tasks for the manufacture of secure semiconductors, which are key components to electronic products.<\/p>\n

Building these capabilities in the U.S. will help address increasing market demand for secure semiconductors and to decrease impacts from non-domestic sources, including supply chain interruptions, defective chips, and counterfeiting. The Semiconductor Industry Association estimated that counterfeit chips cost U.S.-based companies more than \u201c$7.5 billion per year, which translates into nearly 11,000 lost American jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new WPI center will offer private industry a secure, real-world testbed for product development, as well as a hub to engage with faculty and students on pilot projects. The involvement of key partners from across the region will also help promote the Commonwealth\u2019s leadership in this critical security area and will lead to more rapid implementation of hardware security measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project highlights the leadership that Massachusetts can play on issues critical to our innovation economy,\u201d said Governor Charlie Baker. \u201cWe congratulate WPI, as well as their public and private sector partners, for developing a project that will provide critical testing capability and a talent pipeline that will help us address a supply chain that is heavily concentrated overseas and prone to disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis grant program is an important way for us to invest in infrastructure statewide which can be utilized by established companies and growing startups to help advance their cutting-edge products,\u201d said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. \u201cSemiconductors are critical components for technologies and computer systems that are critical to energy, transportation, communication, and healthcare sectors. WPI has been a strong partner in supporting our innovation economy, and this new center, with its focus on manufacturing and cybersecurity, will help bolster our \u2018Made in Mass\u2019 products and increase their competitiveness globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of this effort, WPI will collaborate with QCC in Worcester to develop workforce training elements of the project, building on WPI and QCC\u2019s partnership on projects focused on training in the photonics sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new center will more closely connect academic research with industry leaders, a strategy that will help spur collaborations to drive meaningful security innovations for a critical sector, and WPI is proud to be a hub for this important work,\u201d said Laurie Leshin, president of WPI.<\/p>\n

In addition to leadership from WPI, the facility is supported by public and private sector research partners from across Massachusetts and the U.S., including leading academic research institutions: Northeastern, UMass Amherst, and Quinsigamond Community College (QCC), five industry-leading companies: Analog Devices, Dell, General Dynamics, Google, Intrinsix, and the Federally Funded R&D Center MITRE.<\/p>\n

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For more information:<\/p>\n

The Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
\nhttps:\/\/innovation.masstech.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
\nhttps:\/\/www.wpi.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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