India, Aug. 19 -- Applied Materials Inc. announced that the University of California, Berkeley will join the company's EPIC Center in Silicon Valley as a research collaborator.

Working side by side with Applied's scientists and engineers, UC Berkeley faculty and students will pursue high-impact research programs to accelerate the material and process innovations that are foundational to AI computing.

"The EPIC Center is designed to bring together the best minds from industry and academia in a high-velocity, manufacturing-relevant environment to dramatically accelerate the development and commercialization of next-generation semiconductor technologies," said Dr. Prabu Raja, President of the Semiconductor Products Group at Applied Materia...