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FarCenter

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Tue Apr 3, 2012, 10:45 AM Apr 2012

Samsung to spank $7bn on China chip fab

Chip behemoth Samsung has decided to sink $7bn into its first memory factory in China, which will build NAND products.

The South Korean biz said in a regulatory filing that it will spend $2.3bn initially setting up the production facility and add the rest over the next several years.

The factory, located in Xi'an, will start out in 10nm-class NAND flash memory production and aims to start churning out chips by the end of 2013.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/03/samsung_china_chip_factory_investment/

A 10 nanometer line width semiconductor production plant would be very much the leading edge of semiconductor technology. The South Koreans must be able to do this without using US technology, or any technology transfer restrictions from the US to China must have been removed.

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Samsung to spank $7bn on China chip fab (Original Post) FarCenter Apr 2012 OP
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I don't think any 10 nm plants are announced in the US FarCenter Apr 2012 #3

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FarCenter

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3. I don't think any 10 nm plants are announced in the US
Tue Apr 3, 2012, 11:49 AM
Apr 2012

IBM East Fishkill, NY and Intel in Oregon are probably the leading edge, and I doubt that they are working on 10 nm seriously yet.

However, the incentive for driving line widths down to 10 nm is not so great in processors as it is in flash and DRAM. In fact, power / compute power is becoming more of a factor. The processor chips in smartphones don't use the finest line widths and use power saving techniques instead.

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