South Korean chipmakers accelerate facility investments amid booming AI demand
Seoul [South Korea],: South Korea’s leading semiconductor companies increase their investments in production facilities directed by strong estimates for rapid growth in the artificial intelligence chip market.
Samsung Electronics, Korea’s chip production facilities, while reviewing plans to restart the construction, SK Hynix recently began to create a new rear -end processing facility.
Korean English Daily referring to industrial sources, technology giant Samsung’s construction of the construction of the construction of the Pyeongtaek Campus Line, where construction was stopped last year, he said.
P4, the fourth largest chip facility in the field, is divided into four stages. Phase 1 and 3 approached to completion, resources recently for 2 and 4 work orders have been given, two to three months in full -scale construction expected reported.
The two areas of the P4 facility, which was initially planned for casting production, are now expected to be converted into drama production lines. They confirmed that a Samsung technology, a new generation of high -band width, will produce the sixth generation 1C drama using 10 nanometers.
Jun Young-Hyun, Vice President, who controls the semiconductor of Samsung, visited the US last week and met with NVIDIA and pointed to the company’s commitment to close the gap with competitors and provide new HBM chip orders.
Phase 4 is expected to have a monthly capacity of 80,000 wafer and P4 will constitute 40 percent of a total of 200,000 12 -inch wafer capacity.
Although not officially verified, reports are Samsung’s P5. P5, known as P5, shows that he is considering restarting the construction of his fifth facility on the Pyeongtaek campus. The news platform started in 2023 for P5, but was stopped earlier last year.
The estimated P5 plant, which requires more than 30 trillion Won investment, is designed to be a complex factory for drama, Nand flash and Foundry production.
“We are constantly examining various scenarios to continue the construction of our facilities.” He said.
In the report, SK Hynix also increases the production capacity, he added. The chip producer’s new M15X facility is expected to complete its production in Cheongju later this year. This facility will start to produce the fifth generation 10nm class drama chips for new generation HBM4 products and the planned monthly capacity is with approximately 90,000 wafer.
In addition, it invests in a new rear end production facility called “P&T 7” in SK Hynix de Cheongju. The site will increase packaging properties to increase the performance and energy efficiency of advanced chips.
The drama market is expected to remain strong in the second half of the year due to the demand for the HBM chips that play a key role in strengthening AI processors.
Korea Herald, according to Korea’s Export-Iliac Bank, is expected to increase the global AI semiconductor market from USD $ 41.1 billion in 2022 to $ 133 billion.
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