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 work together to advance research into scalable manufacturing and system-level demonstration, bridging the lab-to-fab gap 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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Northwest AI Hub Advances to Project Year 2 with Continued Investment in Scalable, Energy-Efficient AI Hardware
Microelectronics Commons initiative supports next phase of breakthrough ScaleAI project
April 28, 2026
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Northwest-AI-Hub at the 2026 Commons Annual Meeting
Industry, government, and research leaders convened at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., for the 2026 Microelectronics Commons Annual Meeting.
February 23, 2026
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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.
February 11, 2026