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Samsung Foundry is the second largest contract foundry in the world after TSMC. The Taiwan-based chip manufacturer had a leading 61% share of the market after the second quarter of this year compared to Samsung Foundry's 14% slice of the silicon chip pie.. The report suggested that Samsung spin off the foundry business and have it listed as a public company in the U.S.
For example, if a particular wafer had the potential to be cut into 300 dies and 150 passed Quality Control, that would be a yield of 50%. Samsung Foundry reportedly has been suffering through issues with its yield on 3nm production using Gate-All-Around transistors in the single digits during the first quarter of this year. A more recent report suggests that Samsung Foundry's yield on 3nm GAA chips is in the 10%-20% range.
You might remember that early in 2022, Samsung Foundry's yield on 4nm production was around 35%, half of TSMC's yield at the same node.from Samsung Foundry to TSMC and the SoC was refreshed and renamed the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Qualcomm has continued to use TSMC to build its flagship AP although that might change next year as Qualcomm is supposedly considering2025 flagship series.
Samsung might indeed feel that it is better off monetizing its Foundry by taking it public in the U.S. After all, TSMC's market capitalization on the New York Stock Exchange exceeds $810 billion as the shares trade at 32 times earnings.See the latest subscriber-only articles
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