EPIC Center

The Applied Materials EPIC Center—short for Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization—is a facility in Silicon Valley designed to accelerate innovation in semiconductor manufacturing. It represents the largest-ever U.S. investment in advanced semiconductor equipment R&D and is designed from the ground up to dramatically reduce the time it takes to commercialize breakthrough technologies from early-stage research to full-scale manufacturing. It does this by increasing speed, accuracy and efficiency through tighter collaboration and faster cycles of learning.

With state of the art cleanroom space for collaborative R&D, the EPIC Center is on track to become operational in 2026. A traditional chip development cycle is a serial compartmentalized process, but the EPIC model and infrastructure will drastically reduce that time, enabling parallel development, agile handoffs and early access to next-generation processes across the ecosystem. This accelerates product roadmaps, increases commercial success rates and amplifies the return on R&D investments.

In the industry, what we work on is constantly changing, but the way we work hasn’t changed much. Applied Materials is changing the rules with the EPIC Center. By enabling earlier access to integrated tools and processes, the Applied Materials EPIC Center helps drive faster innovation cycles and support the industry’s transition to more complex device architectures, like AI.