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Traditionally, universities, R&D organizations, and internal R&D units of large companies research new materials, architectures, phenomena, methods, and technologies that are years, if not decades, away from commercial deployment. Then, companies like Micron build new products using that fundamental IP to build actual products. As products and technologies become more complex, the time it takes a pre-competitive IP to become a product stretches, while R&D operations become more costly. This is where joint development operations like Micron's Research Lab come into play, as they bring fundamental research closer to developers of actual products.
Micron's Research Lab will focus on future memory technologies, advanced memory and compute architectures, advanced packaging, and next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. As Micron itself puts it, rather than simply develop subsequent generations of DRAM or NAND, the Research Lab will investigate technologies beyond Micron's existing product and technology roadmaps.
"With a planned $10 billion investment in Micron Research Labs, we are looking around the corner to the memory and compute systems the future will demand, bringing together the best minds across academia, government, startups and industry," said Sanjay Mehrotra, Chairman, President and CEO of Micron.
Micron envisions that its Research Lab will be capable of accommodating hundreds of researchers and operate as part of a considerably larger network. The company plans to finance collaborations with universities, establish satellite laboratories around the world, and work closely with external research partners. The network will connect Boise with Micron's existing R&D operations across the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, Singapore, and Taiwan, to move fundamental discoveries toward practical semiconductor technologies.
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/micron-commits-usd10-billion-to-new-us-based-research-labs-boise-hub-to-target-post-dram-and-nand-technologies-and-packaging#main
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