Tech giant Samsung Electronics
is gearing up to fully operate a production line for 3-D NAND flash
memory at its plant in Hwaseong City, Gyeonggi Province, according to
news reports on Sept. 12.
Samsung is said to have sealed
contracts with local manufacturing firms to install processing equipment
and tools for 3-D NAND flash memory chips at the tech giant’s chip
production line, dubbed Line 17 Phase 2, in the city.
An official
from one of Samsung’s contract firms was quoted by Yonhap News Agency
saying that it “made a verbal contract,” and “it would take a month to
build the equipment and tools at the line.”
Considering the one-month period to build the equipment and tools, it is
expected that the Line 17 facility will likely be in full operation
around the end of this year.
The tech firm has another line up and running to produce DRAM chips at the Hwaseong manufacturing complex.
Samsung
has reportedly invested 2.5 trillion won (US$2.26 billion) to build the
chip production line in a bid to meet the increasing demand for 3-D
NAND flash memory chip, which stacks storage cells vertically, compared
to conventional planar memory chips.
Many of high-end super slim
laptops including those produced by Apple of the US and Samsung have
adopted solid state drive storage products built on 3-D NAND chips.
Smartphone
makers are also increasingly employing 3-D NAND memory chips, which,
unlike DRAM chips, do not lose stored data when the power is off.
With
the increasing deployment of NAND memory chips, local chip equipment
providers have recently seen their profits greatly improve.
Technology
Engine of Science saw its revenue and operating profit increase 47
percent and 110 percent, respectively, to 8.07 billion won and 16.4
billion won.
Wafer process tool provider Eugene Tech’s operating
profit in the first half more than doubled to 26.5 billion won from a
year ago.
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