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Samsung Electronics Breaks Ground on a New EUV Line
Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor
technology, today broke ground on a new EUV (extreme ultraviolet) line
in Hwaseong, Korea, aiming to maintain its leadership in
state-of-the-art semiconductor technology.
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Samsung Foundry's newest EUV fab in Hwaseong, Korea (Photos: Business Wire)
With this new EUV line, Samsung will be able to strengthen its
leadership in the single nanometer process technology by responding to
market demand from various applications, including mobile, server,
network, and HPC (high performance cmputing), where high performance
and power efficiency are critical.
The new facility is expected to be completed within the second half of
2019 and start production ramp-up in 2020. The initial investment in
this new EUV line is projected to reach US$ 6 billion by 2020 and
additional investment will be determined depending on market
circumstances.
Samsung has decided to utilize cutting-edge EUV technology starting with
its 7-nanometer (nm) LPP (Low Power Plus (News - Alert)) process. This new line will be
set up with EUV lithography equipment to overcome nano-level technology
limitations. Samsung has continued to invest in EUV R&D to support its
global customers for developing next-generation chips based on this
leading-edge technology.
"With the addition of this new EUV line, Hwaseong will become a center
of the semiconductor cluster which covers Giheung, Hwaseong and
Pyeongtaek," said Kinam Kim, President & CEO of Device Solutions at
Samsung Electronics, in a welcome speech. "It will play a pivotal role
as Samsung seeks to maintain a competitive edge as an industry leader in
the coming age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (News - Alert)."
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative
ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs,
smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, network
systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions. For the
latest news, please visit the Samsung Newsroom at http://news.samsung.com.
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