Applied Materials Inc. and Arizona State University on Thursday opened a $270 million research, development and prototyping facility to support the Valley’s growing semiconductor ecosystem.
The Materials-to-Fab Center consists of 50,000 square feet of cleanroom space and 20,000 square feet of wet and dry labs in the university’s MacroTechnology Works building at ASU Research Park. The facility is designed to foster innovations from ideation to fab prototype by leveraging Applied Materials’ semiconductor manufacturing equipment in a collaborative environment for academia, researchers and industry partners.
The collaboration of ASU’s engineering teams, Applied Materials technologists and industry partners will boost development of new chip technologies crucial to U.S. leadership in AI and high-performance computing, Dr. Prabu Raja, president of Applied Materials’ semiconductor products group, said Thursday at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the facility.
“Our collaboration will also help to create a new generation of talent to feed this ecosystem,” he said. “These students are already working with Applied Materials’ equipment. Today, we can already foresee more than 30 research publications and eight patents coming out of this collaboration. The Materials-to-Fab Center has already accomplished a lot and we are just getting started.”
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