insane komt vertellen dat Samsung bijna 3 miljard gaat investeren in een nieuwe fabriek die Rambus modules zal gaan bakken, en daarnaast komen er een aantal nieuwe research facilities. Ik hoop dat Samsung weet waar hij mee bezig is, Intel was toch aan het denken om toch maar af te zien van het Rambus gebeuren? 
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Samsung Electronics is to spend $2.8 billion on a new chip plant and research facilities.The company said chip production facility Line 10 would initially make 128MB, 256MB and Rambus chips. Situated in Hwasung-gun, Kyonggi Province in Korea on a one million square metre site, it will be capable of making 32,000 eight-inch wafer starts per month.
Samsung will spend around $1.8 billion on Line 10 by the first quarter of 2001, with the first phase due to open in September. At that time, the company said it expected the plant to be turning out 16,000 wafer starts per month.
The move is part of plans to invest $2.2 billion in factory building.
The plant adds to Samsung's existing 1.3 square metre operation in Kiheung, and is the South Korean company's tenth production line. Samsung plans to build a further seven.
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