Lam Research plans $3B R&D expansion over five years

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Lam Research Announces Plans to Invest More than $3B to Expand Global Lab Network, Increase Innovation Velocity in the AI Era

August 13, 2026 4:30 PM EDT

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) today announced that it intends to invest more than $3 billion over the next five years to expand its global research and development (R&D) lab network. The planned multi-site expansion is expected to add infrastructure and capabilities to increase experiment capacity by more than 50%. Lam's R&D approach combines... More