CHENNAI: KLA Corporation, a solutions provider for the global semiconductor and chips industry, has opened two new facilities in Chennai to strengthen its research and talent development.

KLA has opened an Artificial Intelligence-Advanced Computing Lab (AI-ACL), operated in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, at the IIT-M Research park to serve as a center of excellence for AI-focused research and development. The center will serve as a cultural and collaboration hub for the engineering teams, KLA said.

In addition, it also launched a new office in RMZ Millenia-II in Chennai to expand on its existing business operations, as the company continues to grow and hire from the region.

KLA provides advanced process control and enabling solutions for manufacturing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.

The company globally has over 12,000 employees. At KLA India, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers design solutions to improve the performance of KLA’s process control products and facilitate customer success.

“KLA is at the forefront of using AI technology in our process control systems to identify and isolate critical issues in chip manufacturing,” Ahmad Khan, president, semiconductor process control at KLA, said. "Our researchers and engineers at AI-ACL join the AI experts at our AI Modeling and Center of Excellence in Michigan to form a global team committed to advancing the boundaries of AI, software, image processing and physics modeling," he added.

Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director of IIT Madras, who was present at the opening of both the facilities, said “KLA and IIT Madras have been collaborating for over 15 years. We look forward to an expanded collaboration with KLA in AI, advanced parallel computing, and quantum computing research for applications in the semiconductor inspection and metrology domain."

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