Northwest-AI-Hub
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.
Latest News
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Scientists and U.S. foundry achieve 3D chip breakthrough to accelerate AI
Stanford, CMU, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater Technology achieved a milestone with the first monolithic 3D chip built in a U.S. foundry, delivering the densest 3D chip wiring and order-of-magnitude speed gains.
December 11, 2025
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November 21, 2025
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Bridging Institutions Through Semiconductor Research
Undergraduate Visiting Research Intern Andrea Murillo Martínez reflects on a transformative summer internship at Stanford University in the Nanoelectronics & Nanotechnology Lab, part of the California Pacific Northwest AI Hardware Hub initiative.
November 20, 2025