Samsung Confirms Construction of a New Factory in Pyeongtaek | Invest 30 trillion won to produce DARM and NAND Flash

According to South Korean media reports, South Korean memory maker Samsung has confirmed that it will build a new semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea to expand production capacity of DRAM and NAND flash flash memory. Previously, Korean media FN News Citing industry sources and reports from Pyeongtaek officials that Samsung Electronics will hold a management committee meeting to decide whether to build a second chip factory and announce a decision after the Lunar New Year, the report said the total investment may be about 30 trillion won About 2.76 billion US dollars).

According to further reports from FN News, Samsung currently has a large factory in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, which is in the process of manufacturing 64-layer stacked NAND Flash flash memory pellets since 2017. The new plant is temporarily Called P2 Project, just a stone's throw away from the old factory, which now costs KRW30 trillion (about USD2.76 billion), but it is not yet clear whether it will be a preliminary investment or a total investment. Or a joint venture to build, Samsung has not disclosed more information.

The report further pointed out that now the new plant has begun construction, and pipeline laying project has come to an end in the future, the new factory is completed, will have the production of DRAM, NAND Flash flash memory capacity.But currently Samsung does not External disclosure of specific production plans.External estimates, by that time, DRAM, NANDFlash flash memory production should be accounted for half of production capacity, and Samsung will be dynamically adjusted according to market needs, in order to determine the DRAM or NAND Flash The level of memory capacity.

According to the plan, this new Samsung plant will be completed by the end of 2019. Because the procurement of equipment and personnel in place also take some time.Therefore, Samsung at the latest by the end of 2018 is the decision to produce DRAM, NAND Flash Flash memory ratio.Market participants believe that the current NAND Flash flash memory is not a big gap, the original factory capacity has not reached full load, but the DRAM market is in short supply, so the new factory should be DRAM In this case, as long as the new factory is completed and put into production, DRAM production capacity will be further improved to alleviate the current shortage of DRAM.