Samsung Says Austin Chip Fab Back Up
A Samsung spokesperson has said that the Samsung Austin Semiconductor fab that was shut down during the winter storm power outage that took place in Texas six weeks ago is ‘returning to levels prior to the halt.’ The Austin fab is able to produce 100,000 wafers/month when at full capacity, although from the language of the comment, we expect the fab is still ramping up production. When the fab was shut down the company was said to have sent 300 technicians from Korea to assist in the repair and restart of the fab, which is a key producers of CMOS image sensors, display drivers, SSD controllers, and application processors, a number of which were already in short supply before the shutdown. The cost of the shutdown has been estimated to be between $250m and $275m.
Samsung Austin Chip Fab - Source: Samsung
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