Samsung strengthens wafer foundry

Samsung Electronics plans to increase its roughly 400 million U.S. dollar wafer foundry business in 2010 to nearly four times over 1.5 billion U.S. dollars by 2015. According to Jun Nam Xing, president of Samsung Systems LSI, Samsung will continue to strengthen its wafer foundry business by securing intellectual property, developing cutting-edge process technology, and building high-quality services. By 2015, Samsung will increase sales by more than 30% to reach revenue of 1.5 billion yuan. Dollar target.

According to the Korean eNews report, the foundry market will grow from 20 billion U.S. dollars in 2009 to 42.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2014, with an average annual growth rate of 16%, which is higher than the growth rate of the entire semiconductor market by 9%. Samsung’s target generation ratio The average growth rate of workers is two times higher.

Wei Nanxing said that in 2010, Samsung first introduced the 32-nm High-K Metal Gate logic process, and now it has completed the development process of the 28-nm process, while the 20-nm process is jointly developed with IBM (JDA) and is still under development.

Samsung and IBM Research Institute and Samsung Semiconductor Research Institute jointly develop process operations below 20nm. To develop next-generation process technologies, the company is currently conducting research projects such as the development of new materials and transistors.

Samsung currently provides global IC design and system companies such as Apple, Qualcomm, Xilinx, and some integrated semiconductor companies such as Toshiba. In addition, 60% of the top 20 IC design companies in South Korea are OEMed by Samsung, or cooperate with Samsung by ASIC Design House.

Samsung started the OEM service since it launched the S line in 2005. It is expected that some production lines in the Austin, Texas, plant, which will be launched in the second quarter of 2011, will also be used as OEMs. Samsung's foundry business mainly focuses on low-power logic processes below 45nm.

Luan Xingxing said Samsung is a latecomer in the foundry industry, and is therefore still committed to catching up with leading players. Now the process technology has gradually caught up with the global leader, and believes that the future business will be faster. growing up.

The cost of building a semiconductor plant is relatively high, not only for industrialists, but integrated semiconductor companies with factories will also gradually increase the proportion of OEMs. On the other hand, the market power of companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which are relatively superior in the economies of scale of logic products such as microprocessors and process technologies, and Samsung Electronics will continue to expand.