About Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
"At NRI, the goal is clear: to find a device that can scale computer technology beyond CMOS."–Jeff Welser, NRI Director
Seeing 2020 and Beyond
Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), a consortium of companies in the Semiconductor Industry Association, seeks to accelerate research in nanoelectronics for the benefit of the technology industry. Concentrated in U.S. universities with sponsorship shared by industry and state governments, the goal of NRI is to demonstrate novel computing devices capable of replacing the CMOS transistor as a logic switch in the 2020 timeframe. These devices should show significant advantage over ultimate CMOS transistors in power, performance, density, and/or cost, and enable industry to extend the historical cost and performance trends for information technology.
Groundbreaking NRI research is currently being conducted through over 30 universities. The projects are organized into multiuniversity centers (WIN, INDEX, SWAN and MIND) and at NSF nanoscience centers (NRI-NSF). And given the exploratory nature of the research, which seeks out entirely new device and computation technologies, it is particularly important that industry and academia work together closely as research paths develop.
Contact
- Jeffrey J. Welser, NRI Director (bio)
- Allison Hilbert, Executive Assistant