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Honeywell launches ‘innovation hub’ at ASU’s Tempe campus
October 1, 2024 | Tempe Independent
Honeywell opened its Honeywell Innovation Hub on Sept. 30 — a new space on ASU’s Tempe campus launched in collaboration with Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Both the Fulton Schools and Honeywell are focused on empowering students to develop key engineering skills and solve the aerospace industry’s most pressing challenges, and the opening of the hub supports Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio to three powerful megatrends, including the future of aviation.
ASU gets $2M NSF grant to supercharge the semiconductor industry
October 22, 2024 | ASU News
Sarma Vrudhula, professor of computer science and engineering in ASU’s School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design a new chip that will be 100 times more energy efficient than current-generation technology.
“When it comes to making progress in AI, energy is the showstopper,” Vrudhula says. “Artificial intelligence computations take incredible amounts of electrical energy. For us to continue to advance, and for overall sustainability, we must find ways to reduce power consumption.”
$7 billion “city within a city” planned in Phoenix surrounding new TSMC fab
October 28, 2024 | Newsweek
“Halo Vista,” as it is now known, will surround a manufacturing complex developed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—which is already under construction and is being developed by New York-based Mack Real Estate Group in collaboration with McCourt Partners.
“Our vision is for chip designers and engineering students, not just suppliers and manufacturers, to co-locate here, to create a value added ecosystem beyond just what it takes to build chips, and that’s how we’re going to create more value in the Phoenix economy,” said Richard Mack, CEO of Mack Real Estate Group.
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