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Samsung has big plans in foundry

Semiconductors>Korea>Strategy
27/05/2006 14:39:37 :

Samsung is about to become a foundry giant. Over the next six years, the company will spend $33 billion in capital equipment to build six new 300mm fabs. The company already has one in the works, bringing the total to seven.

“We see foundries as the next growth engine,” Ana Hunter, VP of technology for Samsung’s System LSI Division, said. “We will begin offering strategic foundry services starting with 90 nanometers..

Samsung will leverage its joint development project with IBM and Chartered Semiconductor, all of which have collaborated to create a common platform. That also allows Chartered and IBM to act as second sources for Samsung, and vice versa. All have exactly the same processes running internally.


Micron to double its CMOS sensor manufacturing

Semiconductors>Americas>Japan>Investment
27/05/2006 14:40:44 :


Micron Technology intends to double its CMOS sensor manufacturing capacity by converting two 8-inch memory fabs to imager chip production.
Micron, which currently produces CMOS sensors in Boise, Idaho, and Avezzano, Italy, is converting another Boise plant and one in Nishiwaki, Japan, to sensor production. Each of the four fabs has a production capacity of 50,000 8-inch wafers a month.




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