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Among the major subcontractors in semiconductor manufacturing and among the leading chip developers for various applications, Samsung Electronics wants to become the world leader in these industries. To do this, the company plans to invest 133 billion KRW (115 billion dollars) in its Samsung LSI and Samsung Foundry activities.
Samsung will invest 115 billion dollars by 2030, in accordance with the approved plan for the next 12 years. KRW 73 trillion ($ 63.4 billion) will be invested in research and development in South Korea (which probably means both research and development of chips and processing technology), while 60 KRW 000 billion ($ 52.1 billion) will be invested in production facilities and chip making infrastructure for various customers. On average, Samsung will invest about 11 trillion KRW ($ 9.51 trillion) a year until the end of 2030.
| Samsung LSI investment plan and foundry | |||
| Investments per year | Investments by 2030 | ||
| R & D | ~ $ 5.28 billion | ~ $ 63.4 billion | |
| Production infrastructure | ~ $ 4.34 billion | ~ $ 52.1 billion | |
| Total | ~ $ 9.51 billion | ~ $ 115 billion | |
| Note: | Samsung announces its investment plans in KRW, we convert the figures into USD. | ||
Last year, Samsung spent a total of $ 15.2 billion on research and development. The commitment to spend $ 5.28 billion a year on semiconductor research and development alone seems very important. Meanwhile, spending an average of $ 4.3 billion a year to increase production capacity seems rather moderate. For example, Samsung's production line in Hwaseong (campus shown below), which was designed from the ground up for anti-EUV equipment and is expected to be completed in 2019, will cost the company $ 4.615 billion.
| Intel R & D and CapEx, TSMC and Samsung (LSI + Foundry) | ||||
| 2018 | 2019 | Coming years | ||
| Intel | $ 28.7 billion | ? | ? | |
| TSMC (CapEx + R & D) | $ 10.5 billion | 10 ~ 11 billion dollars | ~ 10 to 12 billion dollars | |
| Samsung | ? | $ 9.51 billion | $ 9.51 billion | |
| Note: | TSMC spends only the majority of its research and development (CapEx +) budget on developing process technologies and extending / upgrading manufacturing facilities.
Intel spends R & D + CapEx for processor / SoCs / memory development, new process technologies and for expansion / upgrade of manufacturing units. Samsung (LSI + Foundry) spends money on R & D + CapEx for the development of systems-on-a-chip, new processing technologies and the expansion / upgrade of manufacturing units. |
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Samsung expects its investment plan in LSI and Foundry will create 15,000 additional jobs in R & D and chip production. To put the numbers in context, Samsung had about 320,000 employees worldwide by the end of 2017; it is therefore clear that the company will increase its workforce by 5% by the end of 2030, just in semiconductors.
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