NSF Engines: Central Florida Semiconductor Innovation Engine

NSF 引擎：佛罗里达州中部半导体创新引擎

• 批准号: 2315320
• 负责人: John Allgair
• 金额: $ 1493.87万
• 依托单位: ICAMR, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Central; Florida; Semiconductor

This NSF Engines award to the Central Florida Semiconductor Innovation Engine will play a critical role in bolstering our nation’s production capacity of semiconductors, particularly in the emerging advanced semiconductor packaging sector. Advanced semiconductor packaging is increasingly an essential process to achieving the performance demands of many of the emerging applications that are now at the forefront of technological innovation—for example, fifth-generation (“5G”) wireless communication, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced sensors, and virtual/augmented reality. Currently, the United States does not have a meaningful onshore semiconductor advanced packaging manufacturing sector, as less than 3% of semiconductor advanced packaging manufacturing occurs in the United States; the nation is overwhelmingly reliant on offshore foundries, primarily in Asia. As the limits of Moore’s Law are reached and packaging becomes a more complex and important part of the semiconductor manufacturing process, this NSF Engine is positioned to capture the economic growth, drive key technological advances in a rapidly-changing sector, and secure our national defense by rooting a vital industry on American shores. In addition to the significant national impacts, the NSF Engine has the potential to create thousands of good-paying jobs in a highly dynamic and innovative technology space. The NSF Engine has already created flagship upskilling and retraining programs that have created ladders into economic opportunity for workers from all educational backgrounds. If successful, the concentration of semiconductor talent, existing physical infrastructure, and research capacity of the region could represent a key national security asset and a new force for economic prosperity in the region.The broader region of service encompasses a seven-county region in Central Florida centered around Osceola County. This is a strategic location for an emerging semiconductor hub, and the NSF Engine is uniquely positioned for success in part by geography. NeoCity, the heart of the NSF Engine’s efforts, is located in one of the nation’s fastest growing metropolitan areas for STEM talent, with proximity to the Space Coast and one of the nation’s leading technical universities with a strong concentration of the nation’s semiconductor research talent, the University of Central Florida. Additionally, the NSF Engine has built a STEM-focused high school in the NeoCity Industrial Park with specific workforce tracks and internships that feed into various opportunities within the local semiconductor industry.The region was also the recipient of a Build Back Better Regional Challenge award as well as significant investments from the state of Florida totaling nearly $300 million to position and scale the region’s capacity to serve as a semiconductor hub for the nation. These efforts have been led by ICAMR, Inc. (d.b.a. BRIDG), which is a non-profit public-private partnership with heavy involvement by Osceola County government, R1 academic and nonprofit research institutions (University of Central Florida, University of Florida, imec-USA), a Hispanic Serving Institution and technical community college (Valencia College), a workforce development provider (CareerSource Central Florida), economic and community development organizations (Orlando Economic Partnership, Florida High Tech Corridor), and various industry partners. Each play a significant and complementary role within the broader ecosystem.Use-inspired research and translation activities by the NSF Engine, both occurring in academic labs and municipally-owned industrial fabrication facilities, stand to advance the current state of practice by advancing digital twin technology as it relates to the semiconductor industry, creating new technology for assured and secured semiconductor packaging, and developing new technologies for the implementation of vertical interconnects and interposers (e.g., through-silicon via, through-glass via, through-substrate via) that would position the NSF Engine at the leading edge of chip packaging design and manufacturing. Leading industry partners in the semiconductor sector have already initiated direct engagement with researchers to inform, test, and scale prototypes that result from research activities, further positioning the region as a central point for research talent and industry partners in the semiconductor sector to crossover and converge to ultimately produce significant advanced packaging innovation.This NSF Engine — due to a combination of intentional efforts to train a prepared workforce, unprecedented investments in physical infrastructure (including a county-owned fabrication lab), targeted economic development initiatives, and a regional concentration of experienced semiconductor research and engineering talent — has a unique capacity and the necessary competitive advantage to succeed and thrive in a highly competitive sector and provide our nation with a key domestic supply chain resource for one of the most important technologies in the world today. It is also poised to create another vital national resource: a highly trained semiconductor workforce. Together with key partners such as Valencia College, the NSF Engine has already begun the essential work of creating pathways to high-paying jobs in the sector for residents from across the region that open opportunity and create economic stability for families up and down the economic ladder. These factors position the NSF Engine to be a powerful engine for U.S. competitiveness, economic opportunity, and advanced semiconductor packaging innovation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

佛罗里达州中部半导体创新引擎颁发的NSF发动机奖将在增强我们国家的半导体生产能力方面发挥关键作用，尤其是在新兴的高级半导体包装领域。先进的半导体包装越来越重要，它是实现现在已经处于技术创新最前沿的许多新兴应用程序的性能需求的重要过程，例如，第五代（“ 5G”）无线通信，自动驾驶汽车，人工智能和人工智能和机器学习，高级传感器以及虚拟/增强/增强的现实。目前，美国没有有意义的陆上半导体高级包装制造业，因为在美国不到3％的半导体高级包装制造业。该国主要依靠海上铸造厂（主要是亚洲）。随着达到摩尔法律的限制并包装成为半导体制造过程中更复杂，更重要的部分，该NSF发动机的定位是捕捉经济增长，推动快速变化的部门的主要技术进步，并通过将重要的行业扎根于美国海岸。除了重大的国家影响外，NSF引擎还有可能在高度动态和创新的技术领域创造数千个高薪工作。 NSF引擎已经创建了旗舰化工作和再培训计划，这些计划已为来自所有教育背景的工人创造了梯子。如果成功的话，半导体才华，现有的物理基础设施和该地区的研究能力的集中度可能代表了该地区的一项重要国家安全资产和新的经济繁荣力量。更广泛的服务区域涵盖了佛罗里达州中部的七个县地区，以俄勒拉郡为中心。这是新兴半导体中心的战略位置，NSF发动机在某种程度上取得了独特的位置。 Neocity是NSF Engine努力的核心，位于该国成长最快的STEM人才大都市地区之一，靠近太空海岸，以及全国领先的技术大学之一，该大学的半导体研究人才集中在佛罗里达大学。此外，NSF引擎还在Neocity Industrial Park建立了一所以STEM为重点的高中，具有特定的劳动力轨道和实习机会，这些轨道和实习机会为当地半导体行业的各种机遇提供了帮助。该地区也获得了Back Back Back Back Back Back Back Back Back Back Back Regial挑战奖，以及来自佛罗里达州的重大投资以及佛罗里达州的大量投资，总计近3亿美元，将近3亿美元的奖项授予该地区的国家 /地区，以服务于该地区的国家 /地区。 These efforts have been led by ICAMR, Inc. (d.b.a. BRIDG), which is a non-profit public-private partnership with heavy involvement by Osceola County government, R1 academic and nonprofit research institutions (University of Central Florida, University of Florida, imec-USA), a Hispanic Serving Institution and technical community college (Valencia College), a workforce development provider (CareerSource Central Florida),经济和社区发展组织（奥兰多经济合作伙伴关系，佛罗里达州高科技走廊）和各种行业合作伙伴。 Each play a significant and complementary role within the broader ecosystem.Use-inspired research and translation activities by the NSF Engine, both occurring in academic labs and culturally-owned industrial fabrication facilities, stand to advance the current state of practice by advancing digital twin technology as it relates to the semiconductor industry, creating new technology for assumed and secured semiconductor packaging, and developing new technologies for the implementation of vertical互连和插入器（例如，通过silicon via，通过，玻璃玻璃，通过，覆盖物的via）将NSF发动机定位在芯片包装设计和制造的前沿。半导体部门的领先行业伙伴已经与研究人员直接互动，以告知，测试和规模型原型，这些原型是由研究活动导致的，将该地区作为研究人才和行业伙伴在半导体领域的核心位置，以交叉并收敛，并最终融合了重要的高级包装创新。基础设施（包括县拥有的制造实验室），有针对性的经济发展计划以及经验丰富的半导体研究和工程人才的区域集中，具有独特的能力和必要的竞争优势，可以在高度竞争激烈的领域取得成功和蓬勃发展，并为我们的国家提供当今世界上最重要的重要技术的重要国内供应链资源。创造另一种重要的国家资源也被毒死了：训练有素的半导体劳动力。 NSF Engine与瓦伦西亚学院（Valencia College）等主要合作伙伴一起，已经开始为来自整个地区居民提供高薪工作的途径，从而为来自整个地区的居民提供高薪工作，并为在经济阶梯上下的家庭创造经济稳定。这些因素将NSF引擎定位为美国的竞争力，经济机会和高级半导体包装创新的强大引擎。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估的值得支持的。