By Sabela Ojea
Micron Technology will invest $75 million over the next 10 years toward the Idaho community and workforce development as part of a $15 billion budget to build a semiconductor fabrication plant in the state.
The memory manufacturer on Thursday said its aim is to have a diverse and highly skilled workforce to support the memory fab plant, a project that will create over 2,000 direct jobs and over 17,000 jobs in total.
The plant will be co-located with the company’s research and development epicenter in its hometown of Boise. Nearly two-thirds of Micron’s patents are generated by Boise team members.
“Co-locating the leading-edge memory manufacturing fab is expected to provide multiple strategic benefits for the company and the U.S. semiconductor industry at large as Micron continues to drive industry leadership,” the company said.
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