Samsung Electronics Government Chairman Lee Jae-yong, heart, listens to an evidence throughout his go to to the corporate’s NRD-Okay semiconductor R&D heart in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Government Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the corporate’s chip campuses in Gyeonggi Province, Monday, highlighting the current chip-making efficiency restoration of its Machine Options (DS) Division.
Based on the corporate, Lee visited the development website of NRD-Okay, a 109,000-square-meter R&D cluster that Samsung is constructing in Giheung District of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, with an funding of 20 trillion gained ($13.5 billion) by way of 2030.
NRD-Okay started putting in its services in November final yr, together with high-resolution excessive ultraviolet lithography tools for next-generation reminiscence semiconductor growth, deposition instruments for brand spanking new supplies and wafer bonding infrastructure designed to allow constructions that be part of two wafers collectively.
Throughout the go to, Lee was briefed on the most recent updates in next-generation applied sciences for reminiscence, foundry and system semiconductors and inspected new R&D services put in on the cluster.
Samsung Electronics Government Chairman Lee Jae-yong, heart, enters a clear room of the corporate’s NRD-Okay semiconductor R&D heart in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics
He additionally visited the division’s Hwaseong Campus in Gyeonggi Province, the place he reviewed manufacturing automation techniques powered by digital twin know-how and robots, in addition to using AI applied sciences throughout campus operations.
Upon visiting the websites, Lee had a gathering with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman and DS Division head Jun Younger-hyun, DS Division Chief Know-how Officer Music Jai-hyuk and different executives and mentioned the most recent developments within the semiconductor trade.
Throughout the tour, Lee known as for the corporate to “restore basic technological competitiveness by way of daring innovation and funding,” in keeping with Samsung Electronics.
He additionally held a separate assembly with staff in growth, manufacturing and high quality management, listening to suggestions from frontline employees who contributed to the commercialization of cutting-edge semiconductor merchandise, together with high-bandwidth reminiscence (HBM), D1c DRAM and V10 NAND flash reminiscence.
Google’s Ironwood Tensor Processing Unit / Captured from Google weblog
Lee’s go to is seen as a transfer to encourage the workers and researchers of the division, which confirmed noticeable enhancements in efficiency for the second half of this yr.
Within the first quarter of the yr, Samsung Digital misplaced its management within the international DRAM market to its rival SK hynix, as its HBM chips for synthetic intelligence (AI) accelerators had been outcompeted.
Nevertheless, the corporate’s HBM market share rebounded rapidly within the third and fourth quarters, because the manufacturing yield for 12-layer HBM3E chips stabilized. The DS Division posted record-high reminiscence gross sales within the third quarter this yr, pushed by sturdy demand for its HBM3E.
Pushed by Google’s sturdy demand for its Tensor Processing Unit, analysts expect the division’s working revenue will attain 15 trillion gained within the fourth quarter, 4 instances that of the identical interval final yr.
