Seoul, Sep 8 (IANS) Samsung Electronics has begun operation of a brand new superior, huge chip manufacturing line in South Korea.
The brand new manufacturing line (P3) in Pyeongtaek, the most important chip manufacturing facility ever constructed so far by Samsung, has began manufacturing of a state-of-the-art NAND flash in July.
“The Pyeongtaek campus is quick rising as Samsung’s key manufacturing hub for cutting-edge semiconductors starting from the world’s smallest 14-nanometer (nm) DRAM and modern V-NAND to sub-5nm logic options,” Kyung Kye-hyun, CEO and president of Samsung’s gadget options division, stated at a uncommon press occasion on the campus, some 70 kilometres south of Seoul.
The P3 line is supplied with Dutch chip tools maker ASML’s excessive ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, crucial to creating superior chips, reviews Yonhap information company.
Samsung, the world’s largest reminiscence chip maker, stated it has begun basis work for yet one more manufacturing line, P4, at its Pyeongtaek’s mega 2.9 million-square-meter campus.
Dwelling to 60,000 workers, the Pyeongtaek campus is sort of the dimensions of the 1.45 million-square-meter Giheung campus and the 1.6 million-square-meter Hwaseong campus mixed, based on Samsung.
In Could, US President Joe Biden toured the Pyeongtaek campus, the place he emphasised the significance of semiconductors and shut collaboration within the area between South Korea and the US.
Samsung has 5 semiconductor operations in South Korea — Giheung, Hwaseong, Pyeongtaek, Onyang and Cheonan — and 4 manufacturing websites in america and China — Austin, Suzhou, Tianjin and Xi’an. It’s at present constructing a US$17 billion plant in Austin, Texas.
On the press briefing, Kyung struck a depressing notice, saying the chip business has entered a down cycle and is going through varied challenges, as the worldwide financial system has slowed and companies tightened their spending.
“I do not see good momentum within the second half and into the following 12 months … however we’ll attempt to flip this disaster into a great alternative,” he stated.
With a view to obtain that, funding whatever the financial state of affairs is essential, he stated.
“Much less funding in a down cycle might result in dangerous ends in good instances,” he stated, including “constant funding is the correct approach to go.”
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