Samsung fights off damage from contaminated DRAM semiconductor devices
In a report from BusinessKorea is has become apparent that Samsung suffers from significant damage in its foundry industry. Equipment for the fabrication of its chips, which could have an effect for the output throughout the production facility.
Businesskorea reports that defects have been found in Samsung Electronics’ foundry products. Earlier this year, the company had found problems in its first-generation 10-nm (1x ㎚) DRAM products. This time, defects were discovered in its foundry products, undermining the semiconductor giant’s reliability.
The defects were caused by the use of contaminated equipment on an 8-inch wafer line located in Samsung Electronics' Giheung Plant in Korea. A Samsung Electronics official acknowledged that defective products were found, but said that the process has already been normalized and that the damage is estimated at billions of Korean won.
However, some experts say that the damage may be much more than estimated by Samsung Electronics. "I understand that Samsung has not calculated the exact amount of the damage yet," said an industry insider. "The loss can be much larger than the company’s estimate.”
Irrespective of the scale of the damage, it really hurts Samsung Electronics that the defects themselves occurred to the global semiconductor leader. This is because Samsung Electronics is investing heavily in the foundry sector to take the global No. 1 position in the system semiconductor sector by 2030.
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It's good to know that there are still some sane people left in this community. My favorite was when the flooding in taiwan destroyed a bunch of plants and people here started claiming that this was a conspiracy. As if these companies control the weather too.....
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I can't tell if you're serious or not, but either way it's just sad.
Coincidence creates conspiracy theory. Multiple times over the last several years, just as prices have started to come down, a catastrophe has occurred, resulting in higher prices. The timing for such things always seems so perfect. If you don't expect conspiracy theories to develop, you've lost touch with the world. New day, new event, new conspiracy. Sometimes, new conspiracies form by the hour.
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It's good to know that there are still some sane people left in this community. My favorite was when the flooding in taiwan destroyed a bunch of plants and people here started claiming that this was a conspiracy. As if these companies control the weather too.....
It doesn't help that every time a market starts to see price reductions....something happens to reduce stock and increase price. Not trying to add to the conspiracies, but I find it rather interesting how many times things like this have happened over the past several years. These incidents seem to be great at coinciding with price reductions, resulting in price increases instead.
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Just when demand is increasing.....hmm.....
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Remember how the producers of hard disks, and, later, memory chips "suffered from unexpected loses due to the floods/typhoons/earthquakes/diarrhea/beriberi outbursts in this or that region of Pacific" so that "the production cannot follow the demand", so that "this inevitably leads to rise of the prices"? Similar kind of deception is found in the jiberage about "threats", "security holes" etc., the majority of which is used as a pretext to implement different schemes aimed at controlling people's online activities and intensifying the FEAR among people, because the frightened people will comply, agree, aye aye Sir, yes my dear fat-ass Big Brother Bill and your precious NSA, thanks for being so concerned with protection of our privacy etc. etc.