# Micron doubles R&D capacity with new $200M+ Building 51 in Boise

Micron Technology is outfitting its new Building 51 in Boise, Idaho, a $200+ million, 100,000-square-foot R&D facility with four clean rooms that doubles the company's capacity for semiconductor memory and storage research and development. Construction started in October 2015 and concluded in July 2017.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-08-14
- Where: Boise, Idaho, United States
- Value: $200.0M
- Starts operating: Jul 2017
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 100,000 square feet, four clean rooms
- Products: semiconductor memory, storage solutions, DRAM, NAND flash, 3D XPoint memory
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [Micron Technology](https://endata.com/companies/16026.md)

## Sources

- [idahobusinessreview.com](https://idahobusinessreview.com/2017/08/14/micron-readies-to-double-its-r-and-d-capacity/), 2017-08-14: "Building 51 doubles the clean room space where the technology is developed."

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