Global Research Collaboration harnesses research from the world's top universities and converts it into significant competitive advantage for SRC member companies. Industry-driven and pre-competitive, this research focuses on the next breakthrough in semiconductor technology. GRC has invested more than a billion dollars and worked with several thousand students in hundreds of universities worldwide—not only developing essential technology, but creating the future leaders and innovators in the industry.

Focus Center Research Program is a cooperative multi-university program sponsored by U.S. industry and the federal government in order to maintain the historic productivity growth curve of semiconductor technology. Currently, this collaborative endeavor to discover the end of the CMOS transistor roadmap involves 41 universities, 200 faculty and over 500 graduate students. All FCRP research, guided by the university center directors, forges a nationwide effort to keep the United States and its technology firms at the front of the global microelectronics revolution.

Nanoelectronics Research Initiative is a consortium of companies in the Semiconductor Industry Association seeking to find a device that can scale computer technology beyond CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor). This university-based research, cooperatively funded by industry and state governments, is looking toward nanoelectronics in the year 2020—further out than anyone else. With a goal of discovering the next switch—a new mechanism beyond a better transistor, NRI engages the most talented students to become the innovators and leaders of tomorrow’s technology industry.

Energy Research Initiative is a consortium of semiconductor and energy companies whose mission is to address the world's need for smart alternative energy. The consortium will address issues such as sources, storage, distribution and a secure infrastructure. Initial research focuses on the need for new modeling and simulation tools to support the development of improved photovoltaic devices. It will also develop systems and technologies that enable an efficient, reliable and secure smart grid electricity infrastructure integrated with renewable energy resources.

The new and expanding Education Alliance will leverage the past successes of SRC. By garnering additional funding from sources beyond SRC’s industry membership, the Education Alliance will be able to attract and support more students and will effectively increase the amount of funding for industry-related research. The Alliance is also a natural way to begin applying the SRC model to a wider range of science and engineering industries.