A long-term, strategic, enterprise-level
technology collaboration aims to further increase
production efficiencies and reduce costs for Micron and its
suppliers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 13,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Athinia™ announced
that Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), a global leader in
innovative memory and storage solutions, plans to use the Athinia™
data analytics platform to create a pioneering data collaboration
ecosystem that will help lead a continued journey of digital
transformation with Micron's critical suppliers. Athinia™'s
state-of-the-art AI-driven quality control methodology will be able
to further improve process and device yield, reduce costs and
accelerate time to value generation using select data and insights
from Micron's supply chain. Athinia™, launched in December 2021, is a partnership between Merck
KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (DAX:
MKGAF) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR).
"The secure architecture provided by Athinia™ will allow Micron
and its suppliers to share a single source of real-time data
without compromising data ownership, governance, privacy and
security," said Laura Matz, CEO of
Athinia™ and Chief Science and Technology Officer of Merck, KGaA,
Darmstadt, Germany.
"Through data sharing and collaboration, the
platform leverages machine learning-driven analytics to
solve critical challenges."
Using Athinia™'s platform, Micron's suppliers will be able to
share their process and manufacturing data as well as key
parameters, offering secure collaboration on a much larger
population of critical data analytics. Micron and its suppliers can
expect to see improvements in yields, shortened qualification times
and enhanced quality.
"Our selection of Athinia™ will enable Micron to build on
our established industry leadership in technology and quality
through improved data analytics across our supply chain partners,"
said Manish Bhatia, Executive Vice
President of Global Operations at Micron. "As leading-edge
technologies become more challenging, solutions like
Athinia™ provide the kind of multi-party collaboration and
data insights that make new leading generations of memory
possible."
"Micron is leading the industry in adopting the Athinia™
platform for its new ecosystem. Through data collaboration,
Athinia™ can help to achieve key objectives for the semiconductor
industry such as the improvement of material quality and
sustainability, supply chain resilience as well as the acceleration
of innovation cycles," said Kai
Beckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA,
Darmstadt, Germany and CEO
Electronics. "Ultimately, data analytics and collaboration will
allow a wide range of benefits to the entire semiconductor
industry."
"The production and delivery of semiconductors is absolutely
vital to our collective welfare and security," said Alexander C. Karp, co-founder and chief
executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc. "We are committed
to ensuring that Micron and Athinia™ have the software they
need to address the supply chain challenges involved in the
distribution of one of the world's most essential and important
products."
About Athinia Technologies
LLC
Data for Pioneers. Athinia™ provides a data analytics
platform that brings manufacturers and materials suppliers together
to share, aggregate, and analyze data to unlock efficiencies and
time to market, while improving quality, supply chain and
sustainability. All this without taking ownership of data.
Athinia™ is a partnership between Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,
Germany (DAX: MKGAF), and Palantir
Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR). Athinia is headquartered in
Cambridge, MA, USA. Athinia
operates independently from the Electronics business of Merck KGaA,
Darmstadt, Germany. More
information can be found at www.athinia.com, LinkedIn and
Twitter.
About Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,
Germany
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany,
a leading science and technology company, operates across
healthcare, life science and electronics. Around 60,000 employees
work to make a positive difference to millions of people's lives
every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live.
From advancing gene editing technologies and discovering unique
ways to treat the most challenging diseases to enabling the
intelligence of devices – the company is everywhere. In 2021, Merck
KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany,
generated sales of € 19.7 billion in 66 countries.
The company holds the global rights to the name and trademark
"Merck" internationally. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors of Merck
KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operate
as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and
EMD Electronics in electronics. Since its founding in 1668,
scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been
key to the company's technological and scientific advances. To this
day, the founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly
listed company.
About Palantir Technologies
Inc.
Foundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. Additional
information is available at https://www.palantir.com.
For more information please contact
nuria.aranda-bosch@athinia.com
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