This week we reported on the intentions of Samsung company to expand research center in California.
The Korean company intends to invest another $ 4 billion to expand its production facilities in Texas. In the past, the construction of so-called second phase of the factory in Austin, where the processors available for mobile devices Apple, as well as other chips. Samsung further plans to develop the production increase investment to $ 13 billion
Updated factory will mainly produce 28 nm chips from the wafer size of 300 mm. The upgrading will start this month. The mass production of chips after the upgrade factory will start in the second half next year. According to Samsung, capacity expansion will enable customers to better respond to market demand. For Texas investment of $ 4 billion will be a record of investments made by foreign companies.
Samsung Orientation on 28 nm process suggests two things. First, the processor Apple sooner or later will go to this technical process. Secondly, Samsung will be able to serve the orders of Qualcomm, which has long complained of lack of TSMC capacity .