1-gamma to be produced in Micron’s Hiroshima fab
HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. DRAM, the 1-gamma (1γ) junction. Micron will be the first semiconductor company to bring EUV technology to Japan for production, with its Hiroshima fab playing a critical role in the company’s development of the 1-gamma node. Micron expects to invest up to ¥500 billion in 1-gamma process technology in the coming years, with close support from the Japanese government, to enable the next wave of end-to-end technology innovation such as rapidly emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
With each successive advance in process technology to scale memory cells and improve performance, Micron enables increased memory density, improved energy efficiency and lower cost per bit, helping to unlock new opportunities for digitization, sustainability and green transformation, and automation. The introduction of 1-gamma follows the development of Micron’s 1-beta (1β), the most advanced DRAM node in the industry today, which Micron mass produces in its Hiroshima fab. Micron continues to make progress on its EUV integration plans and expects to ramp EUV into production at the 1-gamma node in Taiwan and Japan from 2025.
“Micron’s Hiroshima operations have been central to the development and production of several leading memory technologies over the past decade,” said Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. “We are proud to be the first to use EUV in Japan and develop and manufacture 1-gamma at our factory in Hiroshima. Our plans reflect our continued commitment to Japan, strong relationship with the Japanese government and the exceptional talent of our Micron Hiroshima team.
In recent years, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has extended significant investment support and established long-term strategies aimed at laying a strong foundation for leading semiconductor manufacturing, a resilient supply chain and a digital economy in the country.
“Today’s announcement between Micron and Japan to produce 1-gamma memory in Hiroshima is an important step forward to secure semiconductor supply chains,” said Rahm Emanuel, US Ambassador to Japan. “This partnership shows how allies, when they work together, can create economic opportunity and security in advanced technologies.”
EUV lithography is the most sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing process in the world. Micron’s integration of EUV into its next node will play an important role in allowing the node to deliver faster, more powerful and higher performance memory products and will enable the company to fulfill its relentless pursuit of industry-first memory innovation.
“Micron is the only company that manufactures DRAM in Japan and is critical to setting the pace for not only the global DRAM industry, but our developing semiconductor ecosystem,” said Satoshi Nohara, METI Director General of the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau. “We are pleased to see our collaboration with Micron take root in Hiroshima with state-of-the-art EUV being introduced on Japanese soil. This will not only deepen the talent and infrastructure of our semiconductor ecosystem and promote, it will also unlock exponential growth and opportunities for our digital economy.
Micron’s 1-gamma node follows the company’s flagship 1-beta node, of which Micron began shipping samples to mobile manufacturers last November. Cementing this industry-first leadership, the company has now begun shipping its 1-beta-based LPDDR5X memory manufactured in Hiroshima to industrial, automotive and consumer customers throughout Asia, the US and Europe. The memory provides low power and performance for AI, intelligent cars and virtual reality.
Micron’s multiple sites in Japan, including its factory in Hiroshima, are central to its research and development roadmap – and mass production – for Micron’s cutting-edge DRAM technology across its product lines. With more than 4,000 engineers and technicians in Japan, Micron is committed to advancing labor development and the semiconductor ecosystem in Japan and has hired more than 1,500 new employees in Japan in the past five years. Micron supplies about a third of the DRAM Japan uses in critical industries ranging from automotive to medical equipment, data centers and 5G infrastructure. With the smallest cell size in the world, the upcoming 1-gamma technology will pave the way for mass production of sophisticated products needed in complex applications from critical infrastructure to image processing networks.
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