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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AND APPLIED MATERIALS TO CREATE 'MATERIALS-TO-FAB' CENTER
More than $270 million in corporate and state investment will help advance Arizona's semiconductor industry TEMPE, Ariz. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 11,
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[{"type":"text","content":"More than $270 million in corporate and state investment will help advance Arizona's semiconductor industry\nTEMPE, Ariz. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arizona State University (ASU) and Applied Materials, Inc. today announced an alliance, aided by the Arizona Commerce Authority, that brings more than $270 million to create a world-class shared research, development and prototyping facility, the Materials-to-Fab (MTF) Center, in the university's MacroTechnology Works building at ASU Research Park.\nThe MTF Center will be designed to accelerate the transfer of innovations from ideation to fab prototype by bringing state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing equipment into a collaborative ASU and Applied Materials environment to work with industry partners, startups, government entities and academic institutions. The MTF Center will provide students and faculty with opportunities for hands-on learning and research on the same 300mm equipment used in leading-edge production fabs.\nApplied Materials is the world's largest provider of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The company in May announced plans to build the Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in California's Silicon Valley. The EPIC Center is planned as the heart of a high-velocity innovation platform that includes a network of hubs at leading universities, each focused on materials and process innovation. The new MTF Center will be home to Applied's Center of Excellence in materials deposition technology.\n\"Applied Materials and ASU already enjoy a close partnership, and this new alliance around the Materials-to-Fab Center will take things to a new level,\" said ASU President Michael Crow. \"But what is more important than the partnership is what it will do for the industry and the country. This is the beginning of a reconfiguration of discovery and translational research outcomes in response to real-world challenges and the development of next-generational processes, materials, equipment and workforce.\"\n\"Applied Materials is excited to build upon our successful track record of collaboration with ASU by adding the Materials-to-Fab Center to our university innovation network,\" said Applied Materials President and CEO Gary Dickerson. \"Applied Materials envisions the MTF Center playing a key role in accelerat...