Samsung holds tool-in ceremony for NRD-Okay, scheduled to begin operation in 2025
Samsung plans to take a position about KRW 20 trillion by 2030 for superior semiconductor R&D
Samsung Electronics right this moment introduced that it held a tool-in ceremony for its new semiconductor analysis and growth advanced (NRD-Okay) at its Giheung campus, marking a major leap into the longer term. About 100 visitors, together with these from suppliers and clients, had been in attendance to have a good time the milestone.
As a state-of-the-art facility, NRD-Okay broke floor in 2022 and is ready to turn out to be a key analysis base for Samsung’s reminiscence, system LSI and foundry semiconductor R&D. With its superior infrastructure, analysis and product-level verification will be capable of happen underneath one roof. Samsung plans to take a position about KRW 20 trillion by 2030 for the advanced in an space overlaying about 109,000 sq. meters (m2) inside its Giheung campus. The advanced may even embrace an R&D-dedicated line scheduled to start operation in mid-2025.
“NRD-K will bolster our development speed, enabling the company to create a virtuous cycle to accelerate fundamental research on next generation technology and mass production. We will lay the foundation for a new leap forward in Giheung, where Samsung Electronics’ 50-year history of semiconductors began, and create a new future for the next 100 years,” mentioned Young Hyun Jun, Vice Chairman and Head of the Device Solutions Division at Samsung Electronics.
“At a time when the importance of win-win partnerships is greater than ever, Applied Materials is committed to accelerating innovation velocity through deep collaboration with Samsung Electronics, working together to drive a new wave of growth for the semiconductor industry,” mentioned Park Gwang-Sun, Head of Applied Materials Korea.
Samsung’s Giheung campus, positioned south of Seoul, is the birthplace of the world’s first 64-megabit (Mb) DRAM in 1992, marking the start of the corporate’s semiconductor management. The institution of the brand new R&D facility will usher within the newest developments in course of know-how and manufacturing instruments, extending the positioning’s legacy on the forefront of innovation.
NRD-Okay can be arrange with High NA excessive ultra-violet (EUV) lithography and new materials deposition gear aimed toward accelerating the event of next-generation reminiscence semiconductors corresponding to 3D DRAM and V-NAND with greater than 1,000 layers. In addition, wafer bonding infrastructure with revolutionary wafer-to-wafer bonding capabilities are additionally deliberate to dock.
Samsung invested a file KRW 8.87 trillion in R&D within the third quarter of this yr, and continues to push boundaries to safe competitiveness in future applied sciences, corresponding to superior packaging for prime bandwidth reminiscence (HBM) manufacturing.
