Intel Labs Academic Collaborations
The future of the semiconductor industry depends on the education of students, and Intel is working to make sure those students are ready.
Preparing the Future Semiconductor Workforce
Intel Labs is one of the leading proponents of university research partnerships and open collaboration, investing approximately $100 million annually into university research programs that span work across numerous technology areas – from intelligent edge to automation and beyond. These investments create opportunities for a diverse range of students and strengthen the semiconductor talent ecosystem.
Academic Programs
Intel is reinventing the way technician education is developed by collaborating with community colleges to create semiconductor training programs as well as providing university students with access to Intel’s silicon technologies.
University Shuttle Program
The University Shuttle Program gives university partners unprecedented access to the Intel Foundry to accelerate semiconductor research and development. The innovative program enables design prototyping on Intel’s leading-edge technologies.
Intel Semiconductor Education and Research Program for Ohio
This collaborative, multi-institution education program emphasizes real-world experiential learning and innovation in semiconductor fabrication. The program includes collaborative research projects, semiconductor-specific curricula for associate and undergraduate degree programs, and funding over the next decade for Ohio universities, community colleges, and other institutions of higher education.
Intel Quick Start Program
In just 10 days, students are prepared to become entry-level technicians at Intel, its suppliers, or other semiconductor manufacturers. Students learn how to perform equipment installation, qualification, and troubleshooting of electro-mechanical equipment used in the manufacturing process.
Semiconductor Technician Certificate Program
Intel is addressing the semiconductor workforce shortage by creating the industry’s first stackable, shareable, and transferable one-year semiconductor technician certificate program. The program develops the essential skills needed for an entry-level technician.
"Intel has a long history of working closely with academic researchers to tackle big challenges through programs like Intel Labs’ academic and faculty research grants… We value their insights and dedication and, together, we’re making progress toward our shared vision of a safe and secure future.”
Sridhar Iyengar
VP and Director, Security & Privacy Research
Academic Awards
Intel recognizes academic researchers who are advancing technology through innovative solutions, tools, and methodologies.
Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award (RSA)
The annual award program recognizes early-career academic researchers who are leading advancements in technology research, demonstrating the potential to disrupt the technology industry.
Intel® Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA)
The annual award program recognizes exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research to help further Intel’s mission to create world-changing technology for improving daily life.
Intel® Hardware Security Academic Award (IHSAA)
The program awards published papers that describe outstanding novel research with a meaningful impact on the hardware security ecosystem, including technologies created by Intel and industry partners.
Academic Affiliations
Intel Labs sponsors various science and technology centers at universities around the world to foster collaborations and development of communities among Intel and academia. We also collaborate on initiatives with the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Collaborations | |
| Data Systems AI Laboratory at MIT | This is a partnership between MIT, Intel, Google, and Microsoft. The goal is to find ways to use AI technology to improve data systems and to use data systems to improve the practice of AI. |
| Stanford University Collaborations | |
| SystemX | The Stanford SystemX Alliance is a collaboration between Stanford University and member industrial firms to produce world-class research and Ph.D. graduates with a view to enabling truly ubiquitous sensing, computing and communication with embedded intelligence. |
| University of California Berkeley Collaborations | |
| BETR: Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Center | Research focus subjects include: Next-Generation Devices, Metrology, Optical Interconnects, Flexible Electronics, System Integration, Accelerators for AI. |
| BWRC: Berkeley Wireless Research Center | The UC Berkeley Wireless Research Center is an established leader in university-industry-government research partnerships resulting in pioneering circuits and system-on-chip innovations for high-performance analog, digital, and mixed-signal applications. |
| Sky Research | The goal of this project is to transform today’s cloud ecosystem into a utility computing platform, we call Sky Computing. Sky Computing is analogous to stitching individual networks (today’s Clouds) into a single unified network, the Internet. This will enable users to leverage the combined strengths of individual clouds and create greater opportunities for third party participation in the evolution of cloud services. |
| SLICE: Specialized Computing Ecosystems | The SLICE Lab at UC Berkeley aims to democratize the design, programming, and integration of domain-specific computing at scale so that a wide-range of applications can benefit from specialized hardware, extending the continued growth in computational capabilities for future-generation computing ecosystems. |
| University of California San Diego (UCSD) Collaborations | |
| Academic Telemetry Center for Excellence | A collaborative telemetry-based data-sharing consortium with the goal of developing actionable insights leading to better end-user experiences that allow all eco-system partners to effectively compete with single vertical-oriented device providers. |
| MICS: Machine-Intelligence Computing and Security Center | The MICS Center at UCSD focuses on integrating hardware, software and massive data sets in new ways in order to invent the future of machine learning, real-time data analytics, deep learning, security and privacy. |
In the News
Intel Invests $100M in Ohio and National Semiconductor Education and Research
To add talent and bolster research, Intel will invest $50 million with Ohio higher education institutions. Another $50 million across the U.S. will be matched by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
JUMP and Intel Labs Success Story: UCSD Professor Leads HD Computing Research Efforts
In January 2023, SRC and its collaborators in cooperation with DARPA launched the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 to continue the efforts from JUMP with an additional $330 million investment over five years.
NC A&T State University Expands Semiconductor Learning Opportunities with Intel Partnership
With the goal of increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM industries, this partnership expands experiential learning opportunities for semiconductor-related disciplines for students at all levels, from community college to undergraduate and graduate education.
Intel Labs’ Investment in Telemetry Center of Excellence Produces Valuable Industry Insights
The Telemetry Data Science Center of Excellence (Telemetry CoE) aims to foster collaboration between Intel subject matter experts, university students, and professors and build upon Intel’s technical pipeline of principal engineers to recruit future Intel employees via internships.