Samsung Electronics confirmed that it is building a new semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, to produce various memory chips such as memory and flash memory according to market demand.
Samsung currently has a large factory in Pyeongtaek and will begin mass production of 64-layer stacked NAND flash memory chips in mid-2017 and can also produce DRAM memory chips. The plant initially invested 15.6 trillion won and is expected to have a total investment of 2021 Reaching 30 trillion won,
The new plant is temporarily called P2 Project, not far from the old factory, the report said Investment amounted to 30 trillion won (about 175 billion yuan), But it is not yet clear whether the initial investment or total investment.
Taking into account the new factory has just started construction, only in January began laying gas pipelines, the follow-up will certainly have additional investment.
The new factory also has memory, flash memory production capacity , But Samsung has not yet decided which specific to do first, certainly depends on follow-up market demand, such as the original factory originally intended to produce memory.
It is reported that, The new factory is scheduled to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2019 , So Samsung at the latest by the end of this year is to decide whether the production of memory or flash memory, after all, equipment ordering, manufacturing, moving into the also take time.
Taking into account the current flash memory supply gap is not too large, the original factory has also been mass-produced, and now the memory market is still high, the new factory should be memory-based, will naturally stimulate the memory further price cuts.
Of course, if Samsung has to deliberately control the market supply and demand, then there is no other way, the interview is useless.
