Samsung has plans to build a new factory specializing in the production of advanced chips, such as 3nm ones, and the investment for this is more than US$ 10 billion The project is still in its infancy, and is considered to be inserted in the city of Austin, Texas, making it the third manufacturer to use extreme ultraviolet lithography technology in its chip production. If the plan gets off the ground, construction of the factory will begin this year, and will begin operating in 2023.
This plan would directly improve the supply of components to Samsung, as US-China trade relations are more strained than usual. The move would also bring Samsung closer to TSMC, the factory responsible for supplying chips for Apple's iPhones and Macs.
Questioned by Bloomberg, Samsung said it had not yet made a decision on its plans to build a new factory in the US. Even so, information reveals that in December, Samsung already acquired a land of 440.000 square meters in Austin, a potential commercial place since the 90s.
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Samsung investing heavily in the component business
Like Apple, which overhauled its technologies and ended partnerships with processor suppliers, as is the case with Intel, which provided chips for Macs since 2005, for example, Samsung plans to further improve its facilities and to achieve this feat. , an investment of over US$ 116 billion is being claimed for the next ten years.
With the new factory in Austin, Samsung will be able to start offering chips based on the most advanced 3nm technology as early as 2022. Bloomberg also noted that this is a successful path, as the market for components for smartphones and computers is increasingly more rentable.
Nowadays, Samsung already manufactures memory chips for Qualcomm and Nvidia, and it seems that it should supply such components to Intel going forward. The Korea Times newspaper says that if the factory is actually built, in the second half of the year, Samsung would already be able to supply at least 15.000 graphics chips to Intel. With this investment, Samsung could easily command a possible market trend, which would guarantee it a strong partnership with other big companies in the field such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google, which in the future, should also want to produce their own chips, and to Therefore, they will resort to TSMC and Samsung components.
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