Followed by the footsteps of TSMC, Samsung grab access mining chip list

South Korean media etnews reported on the 22nd, industry sources pointed out that Samsung Electronics and Russian bitcoin mining hardware provider Baikal contract, Baikal mining ASIC chips for production, scheduled for January 2018 using 14-nanometer production volume.Because Samsung in the past Foundry orders and more from Apple, Qualcomm and other manufacturers, and small factory cooperation is quite rare.Party sources, TSMC earn a lot of money in this area, the recent virtual currency hardware market conditions, Samsung also decided to accept Baikal orders.

The article said that Bitmain and Canaan Creative, the Chinese players, are the leaders in mining hardware, both of which are TSMC customers who produce through TSMC's 16-nanometer manufacturing process with huge shipments. With 189 ASIC chips built into the S9 and 104 ASIC chips from Canaan's AvalonMiner 821, the miner processes a bitcoin hash function a thousand times faster than computers and GPUs. Bitmain not only sells mining Equipment, more its own mining plant, control the global bitcoin mining market, 60% to 70% of the market.

Mining boom not only benefited the foundry industry, South Korea outsourcing of packaging and testing (OSAT) industry also dip, JECT STATS ChipPAC Korea Bitmain ASIC chip package, the daily package volume up to 1 million group, according to the company, consider expansion of capacity , Dealing with huge demand.Other South Korea's IC packaging and testing plant Amkor and ASE are also full of orders.