Lam Research Corporation

FREMONT, Calif., March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lam Research Corp. (Nasdaq: LRCX) today announced that it has been recognized as one of the 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies^® by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the fourth consecutive year that Lam has received the award, which honors organizations committed to business integrity through robust ethics, compliance, and governance programs.

"We are proud to again be recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere, an honor reflective of our long-standing commitment to operate with integrity," said Joan Drew, chief compliance officer at Lam Research. "As an industry leader, we believe we have a responsibility to do business the right way — from fostering a values-based culture that guides employee decision-making, to treating our customers and partners with mutual trust and respect, and positively impacting the communities in which we operate around the world."

Lam is the only wafer fabrication equipment provider included on the 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies list, which recognized 138 organizations across 17 countries and 40 industries.

Ethisphere determined this year's listing based on an assessment of over 240 criteria that demonstrate robust ethics and compliance, including: corporate governance; program structure and resourcing; written standards; training, awareness and communication; risk assessment and auditing; investigations, enforcement, discipline and incentives; measurement of ethical culture; third-party risk management; and environmental and social impact. The full list of honorees can be found at https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees.

"Congratulations to Lam Research for achieving recognition as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies. As we mark the 20th class of honorees, this group continues to raise the bar for business integrity by embedding ethics into everyday decision-making and long-term strategy," said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair.

This distinctive honor follows many industry and workplace awards and recognitions received by Lam, which together demonstrate the global semiconductor manufacturing equipment leader as a great place to work. To learn more about Lam's award-winning culture and commitment to Ethics and Compliance, visit www.lamresearch.com or Lam Research 2024 Global Impact Report.

About Lam Research

Lam Research Corporation is a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. Lam's equipment and services allow customers to build smaller and better performing devices. In fact, today, nearly every advanced chip is built with Lam technology. We combine superior systems engineering, technology leadership, and a strong values-based culture, with an unwavering commitment to our customers. Lam Research (Nasdaq: LRCX) is a FORTUNE 500^® company headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with operations around the globe. Learn more at www.lamresearch.com.

About Ethisphere

Ethisphere is the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that strengthen corporate brands, build trust in the marketplace, and deliver business success. Companies turn ethics, compliance, and culture into a business advantage by leveraging Ethisphere's data-driven program & culture assessments featuring the latest guidance and the practices of hundreds of global organizations across the 8 pillars of an ethical culture, and 240+ ethics, compliance, social, and governance data points delivered through a proprietary software platform. Ethisphere also honors superior integrity programs through World's Most Ethical Companies® recognition, brings together a community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), and advances ethical business practices through the Global Ethics Summit, Ethisphere Magazine, and the Ethicast podcast. For more information, visit: https://ethisphere.com.

Lam Research Company Contacts:

Laura Bakken

Media Relations

(510) 572-5029

publicrelations@lamresearch.com

Ram Ganesh

Investor Relations

(510) 572-1615

investor.relations@lamresearch.com

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Agreement includes development of novel materials, advanced processes, and High NA EUV lithography techniques to enable future logic nodes

ALBANY, N.Y. and FREMONT, Calif., March 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) today announced a collaboration aimed at developing new processes and materials to support sub-1nm logic scaling. Building on a long record of successful partnerships, the new agreement will focus on the joint development of novel materials, fabrication processes, and High NA EUV lithography processes to advance IBM's logic scaling roadmap.

IBM and Lam have collaborated for more than a decade to advance logic fabrication, notably enabling early generations of 7nm, nanosheet, and EUV process technologies. Under this new five-year agreement, the companies intend to extend logic scaling to the sub-1nm node. The work will focus on developing new materials, advanced etch and deposition capabilities for increasingly complex device architectures, and new High NA EUV lithography processes to enable next-generation interconnect and device patterning and accelerate industry adoption.

"Lam has been a critical partner to IBM for over a decade, contributing to key breakthroughs in logic scaling and device architecture such as nanosheet and the world's first 2nm node chip, unveiled by IBM in 2021," said Mukesh Khare, GM of IBM Semiconductors and VP of hybrid cloud, IBM Research. "We are thrilled to be expanding our collaboration to tackle the next set of challenges to enable High NA EUV lithography and sub-1nm nodes."

"As the industry enters a new era of 3D scaling, progress depends on rethinking how materials, processes, and lithography come together as a single, high-density system," said Vahid Vahedi, chief technology and sustainability officer at Lam Research. "We are proud to build on our successful collaboration with IBM to drive High‑NA EUV dry resist and process breakthroughs, accelerating the development of lower power and higher performance transistors that will be critical for AI era."

Using IBM's advanced research capabilities at the NY Creates Albany NanoTech Complex and Lam's end-to-end process tools and innovations — including Aether® dry resist technology, Kiyo® and Akara® etch platforms, Striker® and ALTUS® Halo deposition systems, and advanced packaging technologies — the teams will build and validate full process flows for nanosheet and nanostack devices and backside power delivery. Together, these capabilities are aimed at allowing High‑NA EUV patterns to be reliably transferred into real device layers with high yield and enabling continued scaling, improved performance, and viable paths to production for future logic devices.

About Lam Research

Lam Research Corporation is a global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry. Lam's equipment and services allow customers to build smaller and better-performing devices. In fact, today, nearly every advanced chip is built with Lam technology. We combine superior systems engineering, technology leadership, and a strong values-based culture, with an unwavering commitment to our customers. Lam Research (Nasdaq: LRCX) is a FORTUNE 500® company headquartered in Fremont, Calif., with operations around the globe. Learn more at www.lamresearch.com.

About IBM

IBM is a leading global provider of hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.

IBM Contact

Willa Hahn

IBM Research communications

willa.hahn@ibm.com 

Lam Research Contacts

Laura Bakken

Lam Research Media Relations

+1 (510) 572-9021

laura.bakken@lamresearch.com

Ram Ganesh 

Investor Relations 

+1 (510) 572-1615 

investor.relations@lamresearch.com

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