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Editor\u2019s note: Innovation Thursday <\/a>is a regular feature at WRAL TechWire. These stories focus in depth on various parts of the North Carolina innovation economy. Today we feature an in-depth post from Duke University\u2019s Pratt School of Engineering about how our state can reignite a decades-long commitment to the semiconductor industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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DURHAM \u2013<\/strong> More than 40 years ago, the state legislature of North Carolina created the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC)<\/a> to be a catalyst for technology-based economic development throughout the state. And it worked. For two decades, the area was a leader of computer innovation, home to behemoths in the industry such as IBM and Lenovo.<\/p>\n

While many of the tech giants eventually moved much of their infrastructure out of the state and the region\u2019s strengths in the semiconductor industry declined in the 2000s, the foundations remain intact. It doesn\u2019t take much digging to discover faculty and researchers across the southeastern United States who tie back to the early days of the MCNC\u2014and many of those threads run through Duke University.<\/p>\n

Now, with the opportunities provided by the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022<\/a>, those ties are being reinforced and combined with emerging technologies such as neuromorphic and quantum computing to revitalize the computer technology innovation and manufacturing infrastructure across the region. Recently, leaders in a wide variety of these key computing technologies met on the campus of Duke University in a symposium organized by the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Office for External Partnerships<\/a> to explore ways in which their individual expertise can be combined to meet the challenges laid out in the CHIPS and Science Act.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLast year, the U.S. Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act, a monumental piece of legislative action that substantially invests in our semiconductor and science ecosystems in the United States,\u201d said Jerome P. Lynch, Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University<\/a> in opening remarks. \u201cWe must be prepared to take advantage of this opportunity. Not just as individual researchers and institutions, but as a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder group that can spur growth in the semiconductor industry for the entire southeastern region and the United States as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

With aspirations of grandeur, such an effort would require many dedicated experts working in academia, industry, research, non-profits and government\u2014and that\u2019s exactly who showed up to answer the call to action. Two primary webs were woven throughout the day, one focused on AI hardware and the other on quantum computing. And cutting across both were additional threads focused on workforce development, in which universities continue to play an enormous role.<\/p>\n

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Speakers detailing their research initiatives included:<\/p>\n