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...TSMC’s rivals Samsung and Intel have their own names for similar versions of the same technique....
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...Kyung Kye-Hyun, chief executive of Samsung Semiconductor, said at the Korean company’s annual shareholder’s meeting on Wednesday that he expects to generate $100mn in revenue from the company’s advanced...
...The chief executive of Samsung Semiconductor also gave an optimistic projection of revenue from advanced chip-packaging on Wednesday....
...Samsung’s new HBM chips for its graphics processing units....
...In recent weeks, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s biggest chipmaker and a top ASML customer, and Samsung received US funding under the 2022 Chips Act....
...Vietnam aims to train 50,000 engineers for the industry by 2030, and universities are unveiling semiconductor classes in partnership with employers such as Samsung....
...“Samsung manufactures all the memory in Korea, so shipping memory to the US to do HBM packaging might not be ideal....
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...But workers at one of the region’s most valuable companies, Samsung Electronics, could soon break the mould....
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...Its bullishness was echoed last week by Samsung, which forecast a 10-fold jump in profits....
...Samsung, which launched its latest flagship Galaxy S24 phone in January, had a 23 per cent share after shipments fell just under 1 per cent year on year to 60.1mn....
...South Korea’s conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol, declared last year that the country was engaged in an “all-out”, global “semiconductor war.”...
...Indeed, it may be no coincidence that TSMC and Samsung chose Arizona and Texas as the locations for their US plants, areas that have low seismic hazard risk. Intel also has fabs in Arizona....
...Samsung and LG are fighting for survival in the global display industry they dominated just a few years ago....
...Samsung has been awarded $6.4bn and will build capacity in Texas. TSMC is setting up shop in Arizona. Both will need chipmaking equipment....
...Funding packages for Intel, TSMC and Samsung have been announced in recent weeks....
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