The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its partners in the US Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) consortium have awarded $10.3 million over four years to establish a spintronics research center in Mineesota.
The Center for Spintronic Materials in Advanced Information Technologies (SMART) will be led by and housed at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and will include researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland.
The center will be âdriven by the need for innovative memory and processing architectures that promise to significantly improve the energy efficiency, throughput, and overall functionality of tomorrowâs computing paradigms; in particular, neuromorphic computing, probabilistic computing, in-memory computing, and wave-based information processing.â
The NIST will provide $7.5 million in funding, which will be matched by a $2.8 million contribution from the other partners in SMART.