Samsung isn’t selling old chip-making equipment fearing US sanctions

Samsung Foundry is among the world’s biggest semiconductor chip makers. It frequently upgrades to newer and more advanced chip-making equipment. Usually, the companies making chips sell older equipment once they are phased out from their lineups, but Samsung and SK Hynix have stopped selling their older equipment, fearing backlash from the US. Older chip-making equipment […]

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Samsung’s perfected 4nm chip-making process may earn it key clients

Samsung Foundry’s 4nm process yield appears to be improving every quarter. According to industry sources, Samsung’s yield is good enough to attract new Qualcomm and NVIDIA chip orders. This shift in manufacturing may help Samsung close the gap with its chipset rival TSMC. At the beginning of May, industry insiders were saying that Samsung’s 4nm […]

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Samsung Electronics chip-making profits to soar in Q1 of 2022

The latest survey reports forecast that Samsung, which is one of the largest chip manufacturers in the world, is going to make huge profits in the first quarter of 2022. According to Yonhap Infomax’s survey (via The Korea Herald), despite the ongoing situation of continuous price hikes in raw materials and the global supply shortage, […]

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