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Samsung Foundry New $17 Billion Fab in the USA by Late 2023
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 cre...
2021-06-11 164
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Samsung Updates Galaxy Book Ion: First with Comet Lake & LPDDR4X
Originally introduced in late October, Samsung’s 13.3-inch Galaxy Book Ion was among several ultra-thin and light notebooks based on Intel’s Comet Lake processors that had to use DDR4 memory due to the limitations of the earlier chips, and as a re...
2021-06-11 184
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Micron to Start Volume Production of 128-Layer 3D NAND with RG Architecture This Quarter
As part of the company's second quarter financial earnings call, Micron has revealed that it is about to start volume production of its 4th Generation 3D NAND memory devices. Based around the company's new replacement gate (RG) architecture, the memor...
2021-06-01 130
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SK Hynix to Build $106 Billion Fab Cluster 800,000 Wafer Starts a Month
Capping off a busy week for fab-related news, South Korea authorities this week gave SK Hynix a green light to build a new, 120 trillion won ($106.35 billion) fab complex. The fab cluster will be primarily used to build DRAM for PCs, mobile devices, a...
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