KLA Corporation to launch AI-powered computing lab at IIT Madras

It will serve as a centre of excellence for AI-focused research and development. 

The US-based KLA Corporation has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to launch an artificial intelligence-powered advanced computing lab at the institute’s research park. It will serve as a centre of excellence for AI-focused research and development. 

Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director of IIT Madras, said, “KLA and IIT Madras have been collaborating for over 15 years. We look forward to an expanded collaboration with KLA in AI, advanced parallel computing, and quantum computing research for applications in the semiconductor inspection and metrology domain. The IIT Madras Research Park ecosystem is a perfect enabler for such an industry with academic collaboration that is bringing together our resident experts, top student researchers and industry’s best minds."  

At KLA India, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions that improve the performance of KLA’s process control products and facilitate customer success. KLA’s new state-of-the-art, high-tech research and development centre serves as a cultural and collaboration hub for the engineering teams.  

“KLA is at the forefront of using AI technology in our process control systems to identify and isolate critical issues in chip manufacturing,” said Ahmad Khan, president, semiconductor process control at KLA.

"To expand the reach of AI in our products and develop the next generation of AI innovations, we created our new AI-ACL research facility. Our researchers and engineers at AI-ACL join the AI experts at our AI Modelling and Centre of Excellence in Michigan to form a global team committed to advancing the boundaries of AI, software, image processing and physics modelling,” he added. 

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