According to the latest report, the P3 fab that Samsung Electronics started to build in Pyeongtaek, South Korea in mid-2020, will start the installation of equipment next month, and the entry and installation of the equipment will continue until 2020.
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In July, the fab is scheduled to be fully completed in the second half of this year. When it was reported that the P3 fab will start the installation of equipment next month, sources also said that after the construction of the P3 fab, Samsung Electronics is expected to build a P4 fab in Pyeongtaek.
However, sources did not give expectations on when the P4 fab will start construction, the scale of the factory, and the scale of investment. Samsung has not announced whether they will build another fab in Pyeongtaek.
Judging from the source, the P3 fab, which will be installed next month, will be used to produce NAND flash memory and DRAM after completion, and will also use the 3nm process to manufacture wafers for related customers.
Moreover, began to produce NAND flash memory first, followed by DRAM, and then foundry wafers for other customers. The installation of the equipment, which will start with the equipment of the NAND flash production line, will begin in the first week of May.
Furthermore, sources also mentioned in the report that Samsung Electronics’ P3 fab in Pyeongtaek covers an area of 700,000 square meters, which is 1.7 times that of the P2 fab. They plan to invest at least 30 trillion in this factory in the next few years. Korean won, the highest investment is 50 trillion won, that is, at least 24 billion US dollars, and the highest investment is 40 billion US dollars.
