Samsung to build chip testing plant in Vietnam
Samsung Electronics plans to invest 39 trillion dong ($1.5 billion) to build a semiconductor testing plant in an industrial park about 60 kilometres north of Hanoi, a proposal document showed. Construction has begun and the factory is slated to start operations in November 2027 as Samsung's first chip testing site in Vietnam. The plant would add annual capacity of 153.3 billion gigabits of DRAM and 255.6 billion gigabits of NAND, and Vietnamese authorities approved the investment in March; Samsung may reinvest up to about $2.5 billion for a possible second factory. Permits and final approvals remain unclear.
Samsung will add major memory testing capacity in Vietnam by 2027
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Global ai demand has driven strong memory chip use and created shortages. Samsung began…
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