The Cavaliers probably have as much to lose as anyone

"The 3D approach to packaging is one of the most promising options for improvingfunctionality and performance to help ensure the continued success of thesemiconductor industry," according to Dr. "2009 is clearly a very difficult time for the industry butcontinued sharing of research dollars in order to deliver these criticaltechnologies provides a strong prescription for a brighter future." The Interconnect and Packaging Center begins immediate annual funding of$820,000 across its eight selected programs at Georgia Tech, Harvard, TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University and Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity (NTU). The international participation from Singapores NTU marks agrowing trend toward acceleration of progress through integration of the bestglobal research SRC is providing $500,000 per year to IPC for three years. The State of Georgiais providing $320,000 for each of three years. The IPC will be based in the newMarcus Nanotechnology Building at Georgia Tech.

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