GlobalFoundries, MIT enter master research agreement on AI chips

GlobalFoundries (GFS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new master research agreement to jointly pursue advancements and innovations for enhancing the performance and efficiency of critical semiconductor technologies. The collaboration will be led by MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories and GF’s research and development team, GF Labs. With an initial research focus on AI and other applications, the first projects are expected to leverage GF’s differentiated silicon photonics technology, which monolithically integrates RF SOI, CMOS, and optical features on a single chip to realize power efficiencies for datacenters, and GF’s 22FDX platform, which delivers ultra-low power consumption for intelligent devices at the edge.