Micron Announces $10 Billion U.S. Research Labs Investment Focused on Memory and AI Technologies

Micron Technology unveiled Micron Research Labs, a U.S.-based research institution headquartered in Boise and backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the next decade. The hub will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor ecosystem. Key research areas include critical memory technologies, advanced memory and compute architectures, packaging and future semiconductor manufacturing.

Micron Research Labs is described as the first dedicated memory research hub of its kind in the U.S. It will center on a flagship Boise campus. The planned investment will also fund university collaborations, global satellite labs and ecosystem partnerships. The lab is anchored in Boise and connected to Micron’s research and technology footprint across the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, Singapore and Taiwan.

Sanjay Mehrotra, Chairman, President and CEO of Micron Technology, said: “The decisions we make today will determine who leads the AI economy of tomorrow, and America's AI future will be built on American-made memory. 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. This builds on the more than $250 billion we have separately committed to manuf...