Applied Materials EPIC Center Silicon Valley

On May 22, 2023, Applied Materials announced a landmark investment to build the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment R&D at an Applied campus in Silicon Valley.

The Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center Silicon Valley is planned as the heart of a high-velocity innovation platform designed to accelerate development and commercialization of the foundational technologies needed by the global semiconductor and computing industries. The facility is the centerpiece of the overall EPIC Platform established by Applied Materials.

The multibillion-dollar facility is designed to provide a breadth and scale of capabilities that is unique in the industry, including more than 180,000 square feet – more than three American football fields – of state-of-the-art cleanroom for collaborative innovation with chipmakers, universities and ecosystem partners. It is the largest and most advanced facility of its type globally.

Designed from the ground up to accelerate the pace of introducing new manufacturing innovations, the new EPIC Center is expected to reduce the time it takes the industry to bring a technology from concept to commercialization by several years, while simultaneously increasing the commercial success rate of new innovations and the return on R&D investments for the entire semiconductor ecosystem.

The EPIC Center Silicon Valley is targeted to be completed in 2026.

Learn more about Applied’s EPIC Platform for innovation.