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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Consumers: "Wow, I enjoy how affordable RAM price these days"
Samsung: "Hold my beer"
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Take2:
Samsung: "Oh that's a nice low price RAM you got there, would be shame if something bad happened to production line..."
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Usually any materials get tested prior purchase/stoage/use, so i expect it more to be stemming from the assembly line.
With so many things automated, easy something that was initially correct, got out of alignment/wrong data programmed or similar.
Would also explain the "short" amount of time it took to fix the problem, i expect to take longer if resource related.
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This is always going on you just do not get to hear about a lot of it for obvious reasons. What you need to do is watch out for products that have slipped through the net, do not work or could fail early that sort thing.
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What does it mean?
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I wonder if this is related to their troubles in getting pure enough chemicals or if the source is something totally different, like incorrect equipment installations or maintenance.