Samsung puts billions in Texas mobile chip production
Samsung Austin Semiconductor is planning to invest around $ 4 billion in upgrading its chip factory in Texas. This is the manufacturing subsidiary of South Korean IT company announced Tuesday in a press release. The work will start in August - mass production will be possible from the second half of 2013. The upgraded fab will produce mainly intended for mobile devices, System-on-Chip (SoC) on 300-mm wafers using 28-nanometer technology, Samsung said. According to the group, these are the largest investment by a foreign company in the U.S. state of Texas.
Industry observers believe that the future there gefertigen chips mainly for iPhone, iPad and Samsung's own equipment is intended - Apple and the Galaxy manufacturers dominate the global smartphone market in the meantime. At the same time, both companies are stuck in a bitter patent dispute. In a California jury on Tuesday the process should begin its sentencing deliberations, a conference of the two CEOs did not result in sudden agreement. Bloomberg estimates that Apple's chip contracts accounting for nearly nine percent of Samsung's sales.
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