The U.S. Dept. of Commerce has offered Micron Technology Inc. $6.1 billion in direct funding from a CHIPS and Science Act program to support construction of three semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, officials announced April 25. One of the plants is already under construction.
Micron is expanding its research and development facility in Boise, Idaho, with construction of a neighboring high-volume manufacturing fab. It also plans to put some of the federal funding toward construction of the first two fabs at a site in Clay, N.Y. Each of the three fabs would have 600,000 sq ft of clean room space.