UTD drives semiconductor growth in Richardson From the cover
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Dallas-Fort Worth has the country’s third largest semiconductor industry, according to Computing Technology Industry Association data. Richardson’s ties to TI as well as its continued growth in the sector places it in the center of semiconductor growth in the region. UT Dallas’ North Texas Semiconductor Institute was established just over three years ago and aims to serve the local semiconductor industry with “research, entrepreneurship and workforce development,” said Ted Moise, North Texas Semiconductor Institute director. Moise said that he met with workforce partners within the industry to help address their needs, and he found that while engineers were needed, there is a bigger demand for technicians. He added that Dallas, Collin, Grayson and North Central Texas colleges graduate around 200 certi ed technicians annually. “What the companies needed was more like two
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Richardson and The University of Texas at Dallas have been partnering to grow the city’s tech industry for more than 55 years, since UTD started as Texas Instruments’ research arm. As times, and tech, have changed, so has that relationship. Recent developments have occurred at Richardson’s Innovation Quarter Headquarters and in the semiconductor industry. A semiconductor is a component used in most electronics. An expansion of semiconductor company IntelliEPI IR last month is one of the latest examples of the city’s tech growth, and City Manager Don Magner said the partnership with UTD is crucial to that growth. “[The city] is not only using [UTD] to create this ecosystem of innovation. ... We leverage them as their students and faculty create new innovation and look to commercialize that,” City Manager Don Magner said.
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or three times that,” Moise said. As a result, UT Dallas has established the North Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium, a program that partners with the local com- munity colleges in order to enhance workforce development. “Our intention there was to align the needs of the companies and the o erings of the community colleges,” Moise said.
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“UT Dallas was born from industry, and we’ve never forgotten the relationship between what happens here and what enables a technology economy.”
“UT Dallas is probably one of the top two to three assets that we leverage and promote in our economic development, recruitment and retention.” DON MAGNER, RICHARDSON CITY MANAGER
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