Press Release

Semiconductor technology advances have allowed ever more sophisticated electronics products for over six decades, but as key critical circuit layers shrink to a few atoms thick, further progress may be impossible. The Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), managed through the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), supports university research to find a replacement technology to allow faster, smaller, more energy efficient devices beyond the limits of semiconductor technology. The country that is first to develop the new technology will lead the nanoelectronics era much as the U.S. has led the microelectronics era for the past 50 years, and many nations are supporting research programs to gain this advantage.