Last updated: April 29th, 2026 at 12:00 UTC+02:00
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It has now reached parity with its rival TSMC.
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Samsung Foundry
Samsung might be the world’s second-biggest contract chip maker, but it is nowhere close to rival TSMC in terms of foundry market share. However, that could improve in the near future, as Samsung has reached an important milestone in 4nm chip manufacturing.
According to a new report from SEDaily, Samsung Foundry’s yield for its 4nm process has surpassed 80 percent. In semiconductor manufacturing, that is considered a sign of process maturity. As a result, Samsung Foundry is expected to attract more chip orders from major tech firms in the near future.
Groq, which was recently acquired by Nvidia, has already reportedly ordered Samsung to manufacture its Language Processing Units (LPUs) using the 4nm process.
Ambarella, Baidu, Faraday, and IBM are also reportedly having chips manufactured using Samsung Foundry’s 4nm process. South Korean firms FuriosaAI and Rebellion are using the process as well.
Samsung’s own memory division is using Samsung Foundry’s 4nm process for the base die of its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chips that were launched earlier this year.
It is expected that Samsung’s non-memory chip business, which includes Samsung Foundry and System LSI, could return to profitability in the second half of this year.
Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S23 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.
