Samsung to build another 12 inch fab

The company plans to invest about 2.5 billion won ($2.1 billion) for 300 mm production lines, including Fab 11. About a billion won will be invested in H1 2003 to raise production capacity from current 7,000 wafers to 15,000-20,000 wafers in H1 and 30,000 wafers in H2.

Now Samsung uses only a part of its Fab 11, producing both 200 mm, and 300 mm wafers. The second part will be used for 300 mm wafers and 0.13 micron process technology for making 256 and 512 Mbit DRAM chips.

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