Samsung costs $1.9 billion on logic fab, says Reuters

Published:2012/6/8 2:24:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

Reuters made a report to indicate that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. would build a wafer fab line for logic chips in support of smartphones and tablet computers with $1.9 billion.

The report did not show whether the plan would be an additional module within an established fab or stand-alone wafer fab or where the investment would be located. Samsung’s Line-14 at its fab in Giheung, South Korea, was changed over from memory to logic production at the end of 2011. Samsung hoped they could complete the "line" to run 20- and 14-nm processes on 300-mm diameter wafers.

The market research firm ABI Research analysted that themarket for chips in mobile handsets, including processors, RF circuits, power management and wireless connectivity, was worth more than $30 billion in 2011, and it is destined to go up above $40 billion per year over the next five years.

Samsung develops the A5 and A6 processors for use in Apple iPads and iPhones while TSMC is also believed to be trying to bring up the A6 processor on a 28-nm manufacturing process.

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