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    Samsung beats TSMC to 3nm chip production

    By Agency Staff30 June 2022
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    An aerial view of the Samsung Electronics’ chip production facilities at Hwaseong, South Korea

    Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it has begun mass-producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology, the first to do so globally, as it seeks new clients to catch far bigger rival TSMC in contract chip manufacturing.

    Compared to conventional 5nm chips, the newly developed first-gen 3nm process can reduce power consumption by up to 45%, improve performance by 23%,and reduce area by 16%, Samsung said in a statement.

    The South Korean firm did not name clients for its latest foundry technology, which supplies made-to-order chips like mobile processors and high-performance computing chips, and analysts said Samsung itself and Chinese companies are expected to be among the initial customers.

    While Samsung is the first to production with 3nm chip production, TSMC is planning 2nm volume production in 2025

    Taiwan’s TSMC is the world’s most advanced foundry chip maker and controls about 54% of the global market for contract production of chips, used by firms such as Apple and Qualcomm which don’t have their own semiconductor facilities.

    Samsung, a distant second with a 16.3% market share, according to data provider TrendForce, announced a ₩171-trillion (US$132-billion) investment plan last year to overtake TSMC as the world’s top logic chip maker by 2030.

    “We will continue active innovation in competitive technology development,” said Siyoung Choi, head of foundry business at Samsung.

    Samsung Co-CEO Kyung Kye-hyun said earlier this year its foundry business would look for new clients in China, where it expects high market growth, as companies from car makers to appliance goods manufacturers rush to secure capacity to address persistent global chip shortages.

    Outspent

    While Samsung is the first to production with 3nm chip production, TSMC is planning 2nm volume production in 2025.

    Samsung is the market leader in memory chips, but it had been outspent by frontrunner TSMC in the more diverse foundry business, making it difficult to compete, analysts said.

    “Non-memory is different, there’s too much variety,” said Kim Yang-jae, analyst at Daol Investment & Securities.

    “There are only two kinds of memory chips — DRAM and NAND Flash. You can concentrate on one thing, raise efficiency and make a lot of it, but you can’t do that with a thousand different non-memory chips.”

    Samsung Electronics workers stand with wafers at its chip contract manufacturing facilities in Hwaseong, South Korea

    Samsung’s compound annual growth rate of capital spending between 2017 and 2023, which measures how quickly a company is increasing its investment, is estimated at 7.9%, versus TSMC’s estimated 30.4%, according to Mirae Asset Securities.

    Samsung’s efforts to compete with the industry leader have also been hampered by less-than-expected yields of older chips during the past year or so, analysts said. The company said in March that its operations have shown a gradual improvement.  — Joyce Lee, (c) 2022 Reuters



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