Foreign media Tom's hardware reported that Micron, a major US memory manufacturer, recently introduced a US $20 billion investment plan announced not long ago. Micron has expanded its investment in the United States to about $15 billion, and its R&D to $50 billion, creating about 90,000 direct and interoperable vacancies.

Micon Manufacturing investment of US$15 billion, including the construction of the second leading memory factory in Adaho State, to expand the Virginia factory and modernize it. The four crystalline mill projects in New York will also be launched in a timely manner and bring advanced HBM to the United States to achieve long-term growth of high-frequency wide memory (HBM) that is important to the AI ​​market.

Investing $50 billion in Micron has enhanced Micron's US memory chip research and development to once again consolidate the long-term position of global memory leaders. The main purpose is to enable Micron to meet market demand, maintain Micron's market share, and support Micron's goal of producing 40% of DRAM in China.

Microtron's latest information, the first part of the investment plan is to build the world's largest and most advanced DRAM production facility near Idaho, which is now called Fab ID1. Once fully equipped with production equipment, the ID1's dust-free room area will reach 600,000 square feet, about twice the capacity of GlobalFoundries Fab 8 clean chambers, comparable to the large wafer-rod plants operated by rivals Samsung and SK Hynix in South Korea.

The current stage Fab ID1 will reach a key construction milestone in June 2025, that is, the production of crystals will begin in the second half of 2027, and then the mainland will continue to conduct customer certification. Fab ID2, the second wafer factory in Idaho, will be built near ID1, benefiting from shared infrastructure and R&D co-sites. It is expected that Fab ID2 will be put into production before the New York factory. However, the company does not specify the exact time.

Finally, for the exciting project of four crystalline factories located in New York, Micron plans to start foundation work at its New York factory by the end of 2025 after completing a federal and state environmental review. Micron's New York plan is more scaled than the Idaho plan, because it involves the exciting construction of four wafer-free plants, the dust-free room area will reach about 600,000 square feet. Although there is no specific production schedule for this factory, it is clear that the factory is part of Micron's long-term strategic effort to build a strong U.S. manufacturing footprint to support business and national computing needs.

In addition to building a brand new crystal factory, Micron will also expand its Virginia factory. Currently, the factory produces memory for automotive, aerospace, national defense and industrial applications. After the upgrade and update, the crystalline factory will gain the production capacity and advanced packaging capabilities of HBM memory stacking in the United States. However, Micron plans to increase HBM capabilities to its Virginia factory after the Idaho Cylinder factory increases the production of DRAM Cylinders in the United States. That is, Micron is expected to manufacture HBM5 or HBM6 in the United States.

Microt Executive and Chairman Sanjay Mehrotra said that as part of this $20 billion investment plan, Micron plans to build a sufficient DRAM wafer scale in our U.S. business and then support our long-term HBM growth plan.