Provided by Office of the Texas GovernorAUSTIN, TX (NEWS RELEASE) - Governor Greg Abbott today announced that a Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant of $19,108,579 has been extended to Texas Tech University (TTU) for their next-generation computing cluster project in Lubbock.

"Texas is where higher education research powers real-world innovation," said Governor Abbott.

"Equipped with tools that accelerate learning, the bright minds in our public research institutions like Texas Tech University will advance America's leadership in semiconductor research and development." TTU's project will transform semiconductor research and development by leveraging a network of interconnected high-performance servers designed to function as a single unified system to handle massive, parallel workloads.