Samsung trailing behind TSMC could be an understatement, however the Korean large has plans to show issues round whereas combating the continued chip scarcity on the identical time. Throughout its third-quarter earnings, the corporate introduced that it goals to triple its chip manufacturing capabilities.
Samsung’s Plans Will Not Occur With a Snap; Reaching Its Purpose of Tripling Chip Manufacturing Will Take A number of Years
At the moment, Samsung’s market share within the foundry enterprise stands at 17 p.c, and it’s the second greatest producer of semiconductors. Nonetheless, its greatest rival on this trade, TSMC, stands tall with a 53 p.c market share. With that being stated, Samsung has a ton of floor to cowl, and based on Nikkei Asia, it plans on decreasing that disparity by tripling its chip manufacturing efforts.
Han Seung-hoon, a Samsung government, stated the next in the course of the firm’s earnings convention name.
“We plan to broaden our capability about 3 times by 2026 to fulfill prospects’ wants as a lot as potential by increasing capability in Pyeongtaek in addition to contemplating establishing a brand new plant within the U.S.”
Samsung’s efforts will not be simply restricted to its residence turf in South Korea however have prolonged to the U.S. too. In keeping with a earlier report, the corporate was near finalizing its $17 billion chip plant in Texas, and that’s not the one ambition the chip manufacturing large has laid out. Again in 2019, we reported that Samsung goals to take a position $115 billion by 2030 to achieve an edge within the cellular chips class and tackle not simply Qualcomm, however Apple too.
The corporate additionally introduced beforehand that it has plans on mass producing 3nm chips within the first half of 2022. These 3nm chips will supply a 35 p.c efficiency leap and 50 p.c energy financial savings in comparison with its 7nm LPP nodes, however it’s not confirmed the way it will fare in opposition to TSMC’s personal 3nm choices. The efforts to triple chip manufacturing can even be useful to sate the chip scarcity, which has pressured TSMC to not simply introduce value hikes for its next-generation wafers but in addition to begin prioritizing companions who will not be stockpiling chips.
Bringing some much-needed competitors to the foundry enterprise will encourage competitors, forcing each producers to push ahead in bringing cutting-edge chips to the market whereas additionally giving choices to firms like Apple and Qualcomm. Counting on a single producer can stifle competitors, however Samsung’s objective won’t attain completion in a couple of days, however it has plans to triple chip manufacturing by 2026.
Information Supply: Nikkei
