Transforming the electronics
industry through AI-research

APRIL HUB

Boosting productivity through AI-research

The APRIL hub aspires to unite the electronics and artificial intelligence (AI) communities for developing and bringing to market AI-based tools for boosting productivity across the entire electronics industry supply chain.

THROUGH AI-RESEARCH

We are Transforming the electronics industry

APRIL is transforming the electronics industry by:

Developing world-leading AI research relevant to the electronics industry.

Building a strong expandable network that combines the entire electronics and AI supply chains, and influences the direction of research, policy and regulation.

Enabling the adoption of technology into business through the creation of AI tools or translation into new start-ups, generating a strong pipeline of talent that spans AI and electronics through workshops, training and the network.

ADVANCED ELECTRONICS

NEURAL NETWORKS

AI TOOLS

ADVANCED ELECTRONICS

NEURAL NETWORKS

AI TOOLS

APRIL HUB'S MISSION

Delivering World-leading AI research in electronics & semiconductors

To achieve this, research activities are organized in "5 pillar areas + 5 capability areas" that any UK academic or industrial institution can access via appropriate financing mechanisms to develop AI-driven capabilities.

AN INTERCONNECTED

Network

APRIL brings together a consortium comprising 10 academic institutions and over 25 industrial members, who form a geographically and thematically diverse and interconnected network that covers the entire electronics and AI supply chains industry.

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25

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

INDUSTRIAL MEMBERS

THE APRIL HUB

Future Vision

Lead Transact
Empathise Train Amplify Iterate
Create Explain Interact Predict
Judge Sustain Embody Adapt

Human-only activity

Humans
complement
machines
AI gives
humans
superpowers

Machine-only activity

Humans and machine
hybrid activities

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