Posted on 10/14/2026 5:26:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The workforce at Samsung Electronics' Austin campus, the company's US foundry hub, has fallen by more than 30 percent as losses in its non-memory business continued to weigh on the existing production site.
In contrast, headcount at the Taylor campus -- where Samsung is preparing to produce chips on a 2-nanometer advanced process -- edged up slightly. The company is working toward launching the Taylor factory by the end of this year...
The report shows the Austin campus employed 3,342 workers last year, down 32 percent from 4,907 in 2024. The payroll shrank accordingly: total compensation at the Austin campus came to $359.26 million last year, a 31 percent drop from $519.66 million in 2024...
The Austin campus, where Samsung began investing in 1996, has served as the company's US foundry base. It started producing DRAM in 1998 and handled memory chip production before converting to a dedicated foundry facility in 2017. Its primary process today is the 14-nanometer FinFET node...
As construction nears completion, the number of construction workers on site has actually declined -- falling 25 percent from 8,868 in 2024 to 6,674 last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at biz.heraldcorp.com ...
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WTF?!
The issue is 14nm is REALLY old technology.
Probably from around 2008.
Unless you keep a foundry modern, customers go elsewhere.
When I see Texas, I think Texas.
When I see Austin, I think San Francisco.
Yeah, a 1998 facility is almost 30 years old.
Moore’s Law...processor performance (and memory capacity) doubles roughly every 18 months.
What Dr. Sivana said — the smaller designs are for mobile devices (phones, laptops, sometimes tablets), controllers and such (also desktop machines, TVs, smart TVs, etc) use older architecture. There’s plenty of demand for both.
Asian manufacturers resist moving the higher-end stuff to the US, because they fear China and worry about what will happen when we can make what we need right here. That big Arizona plant was built after too long a time, the excuse being the water supply was inadequate.
Duh.
SW US? Water scarce? Oh pshaw. 😁
The minerals in the water in the western US are kinda hideous. If TSMC and Samsung (and so on) were serious about ramping up state of the art production, they’d build in the Great Lakes basin, our water supply makes us smug. 🌊
OR, they could locate in a state in which the country’s two largest rivers run....
Asian manufacturers resist moving the higher-end stuff to the US, because they fear China and worry about what will happen when we can make what we need right here. That big Arizona plant was built after too long a time, the excuse being the water supply was inadequate.
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Wasn’t there some big asian manufacturer who announced a huge plant in michigan that never went anywhere?
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