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Foreign chip makers likely to benefit from CHIPS Act
Although the largest monetary ben-
eficiaries from the CHIPS Act will be
giant domestic semiconductor makers
such as Intel and Micron, foreign chip
giants who invest in the U.S. have not
been excluded
Samsung, TSMC
Korea’s Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC, two
of the largest and wealthiest semicon-
ductor companires in the world, are also This is Samsung’s existing Austin, Texas fab site.
likely to receive money from the CHIPS According to Reuter’s unnamed source,
Act for the construction of fabs in the U.S. the packaging facility will package hynix’
memory products, but will also accept
In addition SK hynix, the second larg- logic chips from outside manufacturers.
est memory semiconductor supplier, after
Samsung, has confirmed that it plans to Bucking the trend
build a semiconductor packaging and test The establishment of a large packaging
facility in the U.S. and test facility in the U.S. would repre-
sent a dramatic business reversal that has
The company has released no details and sent almost all chip assembly overseas for
no site has been selected. As reported by the past several decades.
Reuters, the plant will employ about 1,000
workers and go online in 2025-2026. In October 2020, Intel sold its Dalian,
China NAND memory and storage business
for $9 billion. That deal concluded recent-
ly. With the sale, Intel retained its Optane
business.
Samsung plans more Texas fabs
Meanwhile, Korea’s mighty memory maker
Samsung has filed applications to build 11
semiconductor fabs near Austin, Texas,
where it currently operates two fabs.
Photo shows SK hynix M16 memory fab at the company’s Incheon, These would be built over the next two
Korea headquarters location. (SK hynix)
decades at a total cost somewhere around
$22 billion U.S. investment $200 billion. The company is already build-
The company recently announced a planned ing a new fab in Taylor, Texas, 25 miles
investment of a $22 billion in the U.S. which north of Austin.
is to include semiconductors, green energy
and bioscience projects. TSMC, which until now has concentrated
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