Applied Materials Launches $5 Billion R&D Center for Advanced Semiconductors

Applied Materials has opened its $5 billion EPIC Center in Sunnyvale, a 600,000-square-foot collaborative R&D facility. This significant investment, the largest in advanced semiconductor equipment R&D on U.S. soil, aims to accelerate the development of crucial technologies. The center will focus on overcoming bottlenecks in 2-nanometer-class logic and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) essential for next-generation AI accelerators.