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Samsung fights off damage from contaminated DRAM semiconductor devices

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/11/2019 08:33 AM | source: businesskorea | 28 comment(s)
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.



Samsung fights off damage from contaminated DRAM semiconductor devices




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NaturalViolence
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#5733713 Posted on: 11/21/2019 02:18 PM
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.

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.


The problem with that logic is this will ALWAYS happen eventually. It might be a month, or a year, or a decade. But some event will always happen which triggers a shortage in any market. Statistically the probably that these events would happen in an already supply limited market is lower since supply shortages would need to be extremely common for that to occur. So a shortage occurring during a bounceback is far more likely. The problem is this community doesn't see the difference between an event occurring one month after an uptick, or three years after an uptick. These are all seen as a "strange coincidence" when demand is "just increasing" no matter how long it's been since the last event. I'm convinced these people would still be saying this even if it had been 20 years since the last event.

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#5733868 Posted on: 11/22/2019 01:28 AM
The problem with that logic is this will ALWAYS happen eventually. It might be a month, or a year, or a decade. But some event will always happen which triggers a shortage in any market. Statistically the probably that these events would happen in an already supply limited market is lower since supply shortages would need to be extremely common for that to occur. So a shortage occurring during a bounceback is far more likely. The problem is this community doesn't see the difference between an event occurring one month after an uptick, or three years after an uptick. These are all seen as a "strange coincidence" when demand is "just increasing" no matter how long it's been since the last event. I'm convinced these people would still be saying this even if it had been 20 years since the last event.

The problem is, these events seem to consistently coincide with market wide price reductions. Consumers start to see lower prices on products, and suddenly a catastrophe happens that restricts supply and prices skyrocket again. When prices start to come down again, another catastrophe happens. When people can see a pattern developing, they start to develop conspiracy theories.

NaturalViolence
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#5734077 Posted on: 11/22/2019 03:54 PM
It's been years since prices started falling. How is that "suddenly"? What I'm saying is that these events don't coincide at all. People just choose to see it that way because it makes for a better story.

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