Samsung Joins Applied Materials’ $5B EPIC Silicon Valley R&D Center
Applied Materials has named Samsung Electronics a founding member of its $5 billion EPIC Center in Silicon Valley, featuring 180,000 sq ft of cleanroom space and opening spring 2026. Joint R&D will pursue atomic-scale innovations in patterning, etch and deposition to accelerate advanced node scaling and future memory architectures.
1. Samsung Becomes Founding Member
Applied Materials has announced that Samsung Electronics will join as the first founding member of its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Silicon Valley, strengthening a long-standing collaboration to advance semiconductor equipment technologies.
2. EPIC Center Investment and Facilities
The EPIC Center represents a $5 billion investment and will feature over 180,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art cleanroom space. Scheduled to open in spring 2026, it is designed to dramatically shorten the time from R&D to full-scale manufacturing.
3. Technology Focus and Joint R&D Programs
Co-development programs will target atomic-scale innovations in patterning, etch and deposition to support chips multiple nodes ahead of current generations. The center will enable parallel development across advanced logic, future memory architectures and extreme 3D integration to boost performance, yield and cost efficiency.