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Applied Materials Unveils $5 Billion EPIC Center in Silicon Valley to Accelerate Semiconductor Innovation for the AI Era

$AMATPress releaseOct 12, 2026, 4:30 PM ETRead the release

Applied Materials unveiled the EPIC Center, a $5 billion, 600,000-square-foot collaborative R&D facility in Sunnyvale billed as the world's largest semiconductor equipment and process technology R&D center. Founding partners include TSMC, Intel, Samsung, Micron and SK hynix, joined by innovation partners Broadcom, Advantest, SCREEN, KIOXIA and Besi, plus five university research partners.

Key figures

Capital investment
$5 billion
Construction hours
more than six million
Facility size sqft
600000

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