Applied Materials and A*Star invest US$210m in research on heterogenous integration over 5 years

Singapore

AMERICAN chipmaker Applied Materials and an A*Star research institute have extended their research collaboration and will make a new combined investment of about US$210 million over 5 years.

This will bring the total investment between Applied Materials and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), which is under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) to US$460 million, since the collaboration began 10 years ago, the two organisations said in a joint media briefing.