Micron breaks ground on $100bn megafab project in US

Micron Technology has started operation connected its $100bn representation manufacturing installation (megafab) successful Onondaga County, New York.

The site, designated for up to 4 fabrication plants, is acceptable to go the largest semiconductor analyzable successful the US. It is projected to make 50,000 jobs statewide.

Company executives, including chairman, president and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, were joined astatine the groundbreaking lawsuit by federal, authorities and section officials arsenic good arsenic representatives from customers, suppliers, world institutions, and assemblage organisations.

Mehrotra said: “Breaking crushed astatine Micron’s New York megafab underscores our committedness to gathering leading‑edge representation astatine standard successful the US.

“We are profoundly grateful to President Trump, Secretary Lutnick, Secretary Chavez-DeRemer, Administrator Zeldin, Governor Hochul, Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, Representatives Mannion, Tenney, Morelle, Langworthy, Stefanik, and Tonko, Onondaga County Executive McMahon, Town Supervisor Ulatowski, Mayor Owens, authorities and section legislators, our customers, suppliers, assemblage leaders, and partners for your continued support.”

The archetypal ceremonial astatine Micron’s Clay determination was followed by a programme astatine Syracuse University’s National Veterans Resource Center, wherever leaders from the institution and authorities delivered statements.

As portion of a $500m statement with Empire State Development, Micron volition allocate $250m to workforce training, acquisition initiatives and assemblage improvements specified arsenic transport and housing.

The task stands arsenic the largest backstage concern successful New York’s past and forms a important constituent of Micron’s wider $200bn US enlargement initiative.

This broader strategy includes gathering 2 large-scale fabs successful Idaho, modernising an existing installation successful Virginia, processing high-bandwidth representation packaging operations, and advancing probe and improvement activities.

Through these efforts, Micron aims to nutrient 40% of its DRAM output wrong the state and expects to enactment astir 90,000 American jobs crossed each sites.

Manufacturing astatine the caller New York megafab is scheduled to statesman successful 2030 with capableness increases planned passim the pursuing years.

In summation to developments successful New York, Micron signed an exclusive missive of intent to get Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s (PSMC) P5 fabrication tract successful Tongluo, Miaoli County, Taiwan, for $1.8bn.

This all-cash woody comprises a 300mm cleanroom installation covering 300,000ft² and provides for a strategical concern betwixt Micron and PSMC focusing connected post-wafer assembly processes and enactment for bequest DRAM products.