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An award worth $7.4 million will help Boise State University further its work in the semiconductor industry through the creation of a new center.

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Boise State receives $7.4M NSF award for semiconductor research

New AWESOME Center will advance AI energy efficiency

Focus on education, mentoring, and workforce development

Strengthens Idaho’s role in the national semiconductor industry

The money, which comes from the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR Centers of Research Excellence in Science Technology (CREST) Center, will fund BSU’s Center for Advancing Workforce Experience through Semiconductors, Outreach and Mentoring Excellence (AWESOME).

The work done in the center will focus on revolutionizing and drastically reducing the costs of ene

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