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Samsung Is Building a $17 Billion Chip Plant in Texas to Fix This Whole Supply Chain Thing

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Samsung is putting on its cowboy hat and heading to the great state of Texas to build a massive $17 billion chip factory. Read more.

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Samsung Foundry: New $17 Billion Fab in the USA by Late 2023

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Samsung Foundry has filed documents with authorities in Arizona, New York, and Texas seeking to build a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing facility in the USA. The potential fab near Austin, Texas, is expected to cost over $17 billion and to create 1,800 jobs.

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Samsung is Developing VR Tools to Help Diagnose Mental Health

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Samsung Electronics has recently signed a partnership with Korean VR studio FNI and Gangnam Severance Hospital, one of South Korea’s largest hospitals, to develop VR-based mental health diagnosis programs for Samsung Gear VR. the New 2017 Gear VR with Controller.

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Samsung Updates Foundry Roadmap: 2nm in 2025, 1.4nm in 2027

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Samsung Foundry revealed its latest process technology roadmap today at its annual Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2023. To make its SF2 technology more competitive, Samsung intends to offer the node with a portfolio of advanced IP for integration into chip designs, including LPDDR5x, HBM3P, PCIe Gen6, and 112G SerDes.

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Inflation Drives Up Fab Costs for Intel and Samsung by Billions of Dollars

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But spiraled inflation, caused by the disruption of supply chains by the pandemic and then by the Russian war against Ukraine, increased costs of fabs for Intel and Samsung by billions of dollars, according to reports. Meanwhile, Samsung wants to build the fab sooner rather than later since it expects further cost increases. "The

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Samsung Foundry Outlines Roadmap Through 2027: 1.4 nm Node, 3x More Capacity

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Samsung outlined its foundry business roadmap for the next five years at its Foundry Forum event last week. Samsung has been introducing new production nodes and/or variants on production nodes every 12 – 18 months for several years now, and plans to keep its rather aggressive pace going forward. New Nodes Incoming. High-NA EUV.

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Tenstorrent to Use Samsung’s SF4X for Quasar Low-Cost AI Chiplet

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Tenstorrent this week announced that it had chosen to use Samsung's SF4X (4 nm-class) process technology for its upcoming low-cost, low-power codenamed Quasar chiplet for machine learning workloads. The chiplets will be made at Samsung's new fab near Taylor, Texas when it becomes operational in 2024. Foundry business. "