Korea will build the world's biggest semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi Province by 2047 as Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and other chip companies plan to invest a total of 622 trillion won ($471 billion) to build 16 new fabs, creating more than 3 million jobs, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Monday.
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s one hell of a chip cluster, that must be an outright insane amount of chips. I wonder what they plan to use it for?
    Oh it’s a fab cluster, that does make more sense. 😋

    Jokes aside, 7.7 million wafers per month by 2030, sounds like quite a bold plan, I suppose they expect a huge increase for the market, because right now, I think that would flood the market, and Intel is building too. So I guess the future looks sweet for heavy electronics users. 😀

  • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Remember that Taiwan is a big player in the semiconductor market, and their fate will always be kinda risky because of China.

    This is a way to spread out the eggs to other baskets, so the world is not so reliant on a small independent (for now) country.