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.
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