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Biden marks $285m to fund ‘digital twin’ chips research
The Biden administration is seeking proposals from businesses with the capacity to create and run an organisation that will create semiconductor “digital twins,” with the possibility of receiving funding of up to $285 million.
The news release states that digital twin-based research can expedite chip development and manufacture in the United States by utilising technology such as artificial intelligence.
It is simpler to test new processors before they go into production by using digital twins, which are virtual copies of actual chips that mirror the real thing and show how they might respond to alternative data configurations or power boosts.
Laurie E. Locascio, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and undersecretary of commerce for standards and technology, stated at a press briefing on Sunday that digital twins could lower the cost of developing and manufacturing chips while also facilitating more collaborative processes related to chip design and development.
“Currently, no country has invested at the scale needed or successfully unified the industry to unlock the enormous potential of digital twin technology for breakthrough discoveries,” Locascio said.
Fab investments are “how we win today,” said Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Arati Prabhakar. “Chips R&D is how we win the future.”
Newsng understands that in addition to supporting workforce training and the establishment of physical and digital facilities across the nation, the $285 million allotment from the CHIPS and Science Act will go towards research into the development of digital twins.
Interested companies will be briefed by the Biden administration on financial opportunities in no time.
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