Posted on 07/02/2022 3:15:01 AM PDT by FarCenter
YONGIN, South Korea – In the rural township of Wonsam in Yongin, a county 40 kilometers south of Seoul, local residents are awaiting seismic changes after a groundbreaking ceremony for a semiconductor, or chip, cluster set to be held this month.
“This area has been farmland for as long as I can remember,” remarked one elderly resident. “Why they chose to build something like that here is beyond me. Now, everything will change.”
Change is, indeed, coming. The land area of the cluster, which was first announced in 2019, will makes it the single biggest project in semiconductor history, according to South Korean media.
Undertaken by SK hynix – which, along with Samsung Electronics is one of South Korea’s two coveted chip-making champions – the project entails around US$100 billion in investment. The cluster will be capable of churning out a whopping 800,000 wafers per month and will stretch over 4 million square meters.
Some 50 suppliers of materials, parts and equipment will move in. The Yongin fab, once completed, will focus on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and on other, next-generation memory chips. SK Group, the conglomerate of which SK hynix is a core constituent, plans to invest around $110 billion over the next five years.
It is yet another addition to one of the most impressive industrial belts in the world: a semiconductor super-corridor that stretches from southern Seoul to the Yellow Sea port city of Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south.
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I’d much,*much* rather buy computer components made in Korea,Japan,Taiwan or Thailand than those made in Red China!
““This area has been farmland for as long as I can remember,” remarked one elderly resident. “Why they chose to build something like that here is beyond me. Now, everything will change.” “
Well, here’s the answer:
“In the rural township of Wonsam in Yongin, a county 40 kilometers south of Seoul”
40km south of Seoul puts it out of range of the North Koreans’ conventional tube and short range rocket artillery.
Vietnam’s starting to come online in componentry - companies wanting cheap labor in the region but are disenchanted with Chinese games and powerplays have been quietly moving to Vietnam. A lot of HP’s laser printer/laser MFP production of late has been coming from Vietnam, for example, and there’s a notable quality improvement as a result.
HP finally realized that among other things, contracting your designs out to the Chinese is a great way to get them stolen, and that just buying up Chinese printers and slapping your name on them is a great way to destroy your reputation.
Fixed it for ya. Tariff all electronic imports now!!!
Samsung gave $10M to the American Legion as a Thank You to American soldiers for keeping their country free. The American Legion gives college scholarships to boys and girls.
Intel announced a massive chip factory to be built just East of Columbus Ohio. Seems US Congress F*UCKED that up too by NOT FUNDING the Chips Act. Korea, Taiwan next best options. Hell, all those free COVID test kits are a better investment that were made IN CHINA
It is still within easy reach of North Korean short range missiles, e.g. KN-02.
Fabs are very soft targets and it wouldn’t take many hits to disable the whole location.
I,personally,would be willing to pay a bit more for oranges picked by US citizens rather than by Mexican wetbacks...ditto grapes,vegetables,etc. But it seems as if 'm in the minority on that one.
Samsung is probably 20 years ahead of China.
Preventing China from importing EUV technology will put them 40 years behind.
Why isn’t this being built in USA?
40BN would have built how many chip factories?
Makes me sick...
Keeping China from importing EUV means that they will develop it on their own in less than a decade, since they know it can be done, roughly how it can be done, and they may “acquire” examples, supplies, etc. as well as finished products that are very helpful.
Besides, it will be some years before the majority of chips are produced using EUV. Most are produced now on coarser nodes, especially automotive, industrial, and other applications requiring long life, low failure rates.
Yes, but it is easier to intercept such missiles than to try to shoot down artillery rounds.
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