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Applied Materials opens $5 billion EPIC Center to speed up AI-era chip development

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Applied Materials has opened its EPIC Center in Sunnyvale, a 600,000-square-foot site tied to $5 billion and focused on AI-era chip research and development. The center is set up to bring chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and university researchers into one place for semiconductor development.

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Applied Materials unveiled the EPIC Center in Sunnyvale as a $5 billion facility dedicated to AI chip research.
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The Sunnyvale site spans 600,000 square feet and is designed to bring chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and university researchers together.
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Applied Materials opened the EPIC Center to support chip development in the AI era.
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The center uses a collaborative model that is meant to involve partners in chip innovation.

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Chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and university researchers are the groups most directly affected, because the Sunnyvale site is built to place them in the same facility for semiconductor development. That makes the EPIC Center a place they can use now for shared research and development work.

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