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Samsung already has a chip manufacturing facility in Austin — the same factory that was temporarily shut down earlier this year due to harsh weather conditions. But on the most part, the existing factory is manufacturing semiconductor technologies based on 14nm processes.
In contrast, Samsung's future chip making factory in Texas will be equipped with 5nm EUV-based manufacturing lines, and therefore it will be responsible for creating Samsung's future cutting-edge chipsets. Both the Exynos 1080 and the Exynos 2100 chipsets were manufactured using a 5nm EUV process.
Samsung hasn't officially revealed its plans to build its 5nm EUV facility in Austin, Texas, but industry watchers are now expecting for the company to spill the beans and confirm its decision around May 21 when presidents Moon Jae-in and Joseph Biden will attend a meeting at the White House.
Samsung reportedly wants the new 5nm EUV facility to be operational in 2024, and industry watchers expect the Korean tech giant to invest around 20 trillion won ($18 billion) in the facility's construction. That's almost twice as much as it was reported at the beginning of the year.
The company will have to equip its new facility with EUV manufacturing equipment — presumably supplied by ASML given that it's the only EUV equipment supplier in the world — and hopefully TSMC won't cause supply issues for Samsung as it did late last year.
ETNews claims that Samsung's 5nm EUV chip manufacturing facility will be build in the vicinity of the existing 14nm plant, as indicated by the yellow highlights in the satellite image below.
Mihai is a blogger and column writer at SamMobile. His first Samsung phone was an A800 which took a lot of beating, and a part of him still misses the novelty of the clamshell design. In his free time, he enjoys watching shows, documentaries, and stand-up comedy; listening to music, taking walks, and occasionally playing old(er) video games.
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