The Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), a consortium of Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) member companies, has recently chartered the Nanoelectronics Research Corporation (NERC) to develop and administer a university based program to address research challenges beyond CMOS. The goal is the demonstration of novel computing devices with critical dimensions below 10 nanometers and to exercise them in simple computer circuits with the objective of enabling the industry to extend Moore's Law far beyond the limits of CMOS. NERC is made up of the following entities:

• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• IBM
• Intel
• MICRON
• Texas Instruments
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