Micron will invest $10 billion, or about 13.9 trillion won, over the next decade to build the Micron Research Lab in Boise, Idaho, where the company is headquartered. Construction is scheduled to begin next year, and the facility will employ several hundred researchers. It is described as the first memory-focused research hub built in the United States. The project is separate from Micron's previously announced $250 billion, or about 349 trillion won, in manufacturing-related investment plans. The lab will target next-generation memory, high-performance computing architecture, advanced chip packaging and future semiconductor manufacturing processes, with the aim of easing data-processing bottlenecks linked to artificial intelligence. Micron is positioning memory as strategic infrastructure for the AI economy rather than a commodity. The company also plans to connect customers, academia, government agencies and startups through a collaboration network, while linking the lab with research and technology hubs in Europe, Japan, India, Singapore and Taiwan. The move supports the Trump administration's effort to revive U.S. semiconductor production and intensifies Micron's competition with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a type of memory designed for high-speed data processing. Counterpoint Research estimated that SK hynix held about 58% of the global HBM market by revenue in the first quarter of this year, while Samsung Electronics and Micron each held about 21%.