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Applied Materials Announces Samsung Electronics Will Join the New, Multibillion-Dollar EPIC Center in Silicon Valley
EPIC will provide joint R&D programs to focus on co-development of materials engineering innovations that accelerate advanced node scaling, future memory architectures and extreme 3D integrationApplied’s new, $5 billion EPIC Center is the largest-ever U.S. investment in advanced semiconductor equipment R&D designed to dramatically reduce the time from R&D to commercialization by several years SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that Sams
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