Intersil and Georgia Institute of Tech joint alliance for semiconductor development

Intersil and Georgia Institute of Technology joint alliance for research and development of advanced power management semiconductor technologies.

This unique alliance involves an on-campus Analog Processing Center of Excellence (ACE) and research efforts across multiple Georgia Tech facilities. A keystone of the alliance will be the opening of a new 4,300 square-foot ACE Center on campus. At the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), Intersil engineers, along with Georgia Tech students and faculty, will focus on creating advanced power management circuit designs.

The new center will also utilize a technique developed at a Georgia Tech-founded company known as collaborative signal processing that removes performance-limiting impairments such as signal loss, dispersion, skew and noise.

This initiative is expected to spawn power savings in the electrical grid and data centers. The partnership is built on Intersil's development of power management technologies and recent research advances in semiconductor fabrication processes.

"The clean and efficient generation, transmission and storage of power are key challenges of the twenty-first century," said Dave Bell, CEO, Intersil Corporation. "Intersil is delighted to be working closely with one of the world's finest educational institutions to develop innovative technologies that will meet our needs for smarter, greener and more efficient power solutions."

Intersil and Georgia Tech are creating a strategic alliance to co-develop high-voltage power management circuits using breakthrough process technologies.

"Georgia Tech's partnership with Intersil is an ideal example of academic and industrial leaders joining forces to co-develop advanced real-world technologies," said Georgia Tech President G.P. 'Bud' Peterson. "Working together, we will develop sustainable energy solutions and create jobs."