Intel, Microsoft to invest $10 million in research at UI

Intel and Microsoft will invest $10 million over five years in a new research center at the University of Illinois to develop ways to take maximum advantage of today's multi-core computer chips.

The UI will invest another $8 million, mostly in "in-kind" services like staff and computing time, in the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center, which will involve 22 UI researchers in computer science and engineering.

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