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Meta, Broadcom launch $125M semiconductor research hub at UCLA

Meta, Broadcom, and other industry partners are establishing a $125 million semiconductor research hub at UCLA to advance next-generation chip design and manufacturing. The facility will focus on AI hardware innovation and supply-chain resilience for leading-edge silicon.

This represents a shift in corporate semiconductor R&D toward academic partnerships, signaling industry concern over fab capacity and the need for open-access advanced manufacturing research outside traditional foundries.

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