Applied Materials (AMAT) on Wednesday said Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) will join the new, $5 billion EPIC Center in Silicon Valley.
Applied’s EPIC Center will open this year as the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment R&D.
The co-development programs at the EPIC Center will be designed to fast-track the development and deployment of next-generation semiconductor technologies through high-velocity co-innovation, the company said.
The joint R&D programs will target new materials and process technologies for chips multiple nodes ahead of the current generation. The co-development programs will target new atomic‑scale innovations for advanced patterning, etch and deposition processes to enable a new generation of devices across advanced logic and memory chips.
