Micron confirms first US memory fab on home soil in 20 years [View all]

$15 billion Idaho facility is the first step as chip biz feeds on CHIPS Act

US memory vendor Micron will spend $15 billion over the next decade to construct what it claims is the first memory fab built by a US manufacturer in America in the last 20 years.…

The memory manufacturing hub is to be built alongside Micron’s research and development facility at its Boise, Idaho headquarters. It will be the first of several investments planned in the wake of the US CHIPs and Science Act passage earlier this summer.

When complete, Micron says the fab will create roughly 17,000 new jobs, including 2,000 full-time positions working at the facility.

“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel US technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in a statement.

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