Samsung and the world a cost of 1 billion U.S. dollars build wafer plant in Singapore

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Samsung Electronics and Siltronic company Thursday in Singapore set up a common value of 1 billion U.S. dollars in new factories, new chip factory will produce 300 mm wafers. Siltronic also known as the World Year, is Germany's leading silicon wafer manufacturers.

The two companies said the two sides set up a new joint venture called Siltronic Samsung Wafer, construction would take 18 months time. By 2010, the joint venture will employ 800 staff, the monthly production of 300,000 wafers.

Wafers are the raw material for manufacturing chips. Its way through manufacturing, many large pipe pulled out of silicon, and then its cutting. Like section mass, Beifengecheng many silicon wafers.

Samsung chip manufacturing companies such then use the wafer fabrication chip, a 300-mm wafer can produce thousands of memory chips.