Texas Awards Texas Tech a $19.1 Million Semiconductor Innovation Fund Grant for a Next-Generation Computing Cluster in Lubbock
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the $19,108,579 grant Thursday. The project links high-performance servers into a single unified system for massive parallel workloads, and Chancellor Brandon Creighton said NVIDIA's most advanced computing technology is coming to Texas Tech.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that Texas Tech University will receive a $19,108,579 grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund for its next-generation computing cluster project in Lubbock.
The project is built around a network of interconnected high-performance servers that function as a single unified system for massive parallel workloads, according to the governor's announcement.
Chancellor Brandon Creighton said NVIDIA's most advanced computing technology is coming to Texas Tech, alongside the TTU Innovation Hub and the Reese National Security Complex. University President Lawrence Schovanec, state Sen. Charles Perry and state Rep. Carl Tepper all backed the award in statements carried in the announcement.
The fund was established by the Texas CHIPS Act, which Abbott signed in 2023. Thursday's award is a separate grant from the semiconductor cleanroom funding the university received earlier this year, and it is aimed at computing capacity rather than fabrication space.
