Federal officials gathered Thursday at the Park Alumni Center on NC State University’s campus to announce $19 million in federal funding for the CLAWS Hub toward work on semiconductors.
CLAWS, an acronym for Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, is based at NC State and is comprised of NC State, North Carolina A&T State University and six private companies.
“(NC State has) for a long time been a particular leader in these specialty semiconductors that are so important in our military for radar and for power electronics,” said Dr. Arati Prabhakar, President Joe Biden’s Chief Advisor for Science and Technology…