Our Mission

The Northwest-AI-Hub is an infrastructure of physical and virtual facilities with the mission to serve regional and national needs for lab-to-fab transition of AI hardware technologies. Academia and industry partners collectively accelerate lab-to-fab transition and system demonstration at scale, bridging the “valley of death” to ensure the commercial viability of the Hub's innovations.

The Northwest-AI-Hub consists of dozens of academic institutions, National Labs, and industry partners, encompassing the entire semiconductor value chain, including materials, devices, EDA and chip design, packaging, as well as system prototyping and testing.