Design & Reuse

Samsung begins building China fab

EETimes (9/12/2012 5:30 AM EDT)

LONDON – South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has broken ground on a wafer fab for NAND memory production in Xian, in northwestern China.

Initially Samsung is investing $2.3 billion to bring the Xian fab into operation in 2014, as part of a planned total investment of $7 billion. Samsung did not indicate the manufacturing capacity it expects to achieve at various times in the wafer fabs development.