Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

Re:Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023 by avs733 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:07PM (#26097419)

I’m honestly surprised we have not seen a blank wafer shortage. I remember the craziness post 2011 earthquake...”well how many wafers do we have”

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Re:Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023 by nl on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:30PM (#26097554)

There is a blank wafer shortage, but - strangely - for 200mm wafers (not the state-of-the-art 300mm ones)

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318554-a-massive-chip-...

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Re:Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023 by avs733 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:41AM (#26102708)

I wouldn't even have thought to look at 200mm for a shortage. That is an (in hindsight) obvious corner of death for these processes/products I wouldn't even have thought of.

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Re:Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023 by totalZero on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:47PM (#26097674)

Interesting. Tells us something about the maturity of the products seeing unanticipated demand.

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