WS Investor
11 Feb 2026, 20:57
Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) announced that Samsung Electronics will join its new $5 billion EPIC (Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization) Center in Silicon Valley, set to become the world’s largest collaborative semiconductor process and equipment R&D facility.
The EPIC Center will focus on joint R&D programs aimed at accelerating advanced node scaling, future memory architectures and extreme 3D integration. The co-development efforts will target next-generation materials and atomic-scale innovations in patterning, etch and deposition processes for advanced logic and memory chips.
CEO Gary Dickerson said the growing demand for energy-efficient AI chips requires a new collaboration model to speed innovation. Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Young Hyun Jun highlighted the deepening partnership to advance leading-edge semiconductor equipment technologies.
The facility, expected to become operational in 2026, is designed to shorten the time from early-stage research to commercialization by enabling parallel development, faster learning cycles and tighter ecosystem collaboration.
Source: Globe Newswire
The EPIC Center will focus on joint R&D programs aimed at accelerating advanced node scaling, future memory architectures and extreme 3D integration. The co-development efforts will target next-generation materials and atomic-scale innovations in patterning, etch and deposition processes for advanced logic and memory chips.
CEO Gary Dickerson said the growing demand for energy-efficient AI chips requires a new collaboration model to speed innovation. Samsung Vice Chairman and CEO Young Hyun Jun highlighted the deepening partnership to advance leading-edge semiconductor equipment technologies.
The facility, expected to become operational in 2026, is designed to shorten the time from early-stage research to commercialization by enabling parallel development, faster learning cycles and tighter ecosystem collaboration.
Source: Globe Newswire