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Last updated: May 28th, 2020 at 09:40 UTC+02:00
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Samsung is reportedly drawing up a detailed plan to convert one of its DRAM production lines in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province in South Korea into a camera sensor production unit. The company will reduce the DRAM production capacity at its line 13 and convert a part of it to manufacture camera sensors. This is not the first time that Samsung has taken this approach. In 2018, it converted a part of its DRAM line 11 into image sensor production line S4.
A DRAM production facility can easily be converted into an image sensor line as nearly 80 percent of those processes are similar. Processes such as chemical vapor deposition, etching, lithography, and testing equipment required in DRAM production lines can also be used for image sensor production.
Some industry insiders believe that Samsung could start mass production at the converted facility as soon as this year after it completes the installation of new equipment and testing it. The South Korean chip giant could spend as much as KRW 1 trillion for this conversion process, but that's still much less than setting up a completely new production line.
Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S21 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.
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