By CJ Haddad
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 20:30:00
People walk through the campus of the University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, Aug. 11, 2025.
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Broadcom, Meta, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries and Synopsys are joining forces to launch a $125 million “Semiconductor Hub” at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
The new partnership will aim to speed up research and workforce development for AI-powered chip technologies, and support innovations across chip design, equipment, software, manufacturing and other parts of the chips ecosystem, according to a UCLA press release.
Based at the UCLA Samueli campus, the research hub will start with a five-year commitment. Faculty and student researchers will work with the founding companies to help shorten the timeline for new chip innovations to reach a rapidly-changing market, Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park, dean of engineering at UCLA Samueli, told CNBC.
“Nobody — including industry — know[s] what a semiconductor industry [is] going to look like in 10 years,”…
