(Samsung Electronics) foundry business in order to reduce the Apple (Apple) and Qualcomm (Qualcomm) and other major customers rely on, want to change the business strategy into a small variety of production patterns, and actively attract small and medium-sized new client. Samsung has launched an open factory (Open Foundry) strategy, the development of the United States, South Korea, the mainland's small and medium-sized potential customers.

       According to the Korean media ET News reported that Samsung Electronics will be held in August 30 in Shanghai Samsung Foundry Forum (Samsung Foundry Forum), invites the mainland's main IC design industry leaders involved, will be presented at the wafer foundry business The main process technology and design support content.

       In fact, Samsung has held similar events in Silicon Valley and South Korea in April and July 2016, respectively, to illustrate the potential customers of the two places to attract the industry to try Samsung foundry.

       In addition to the advanced process of opening 14nm and 10 nanometer fin transistor (FinFET), Samsung has also opened an 8-inch wafer fab for a 28-nm fully depleted insulating layer (FD-SOI) process and a 65 to 130nm process The

       Samsung has achieved a gold yield in the 28-nanometer FD-SOI process and is expected to begin mass production in the third quarter of 2016; the 8-inch fab at 65 to 130 nanometers is also attracting a number of small and medium-sized ICs at home and abroad Designers become customers.

       Abov Semiconductor vice president said that the company will 32-bit MCU by Samsung to 65-nanometer e-Flash process foundry production, believe that Samsung's leading technical capabilities, will help 32-bit MCU products successfully into the market.

       Samsung wafer foundry advantage is to reduce the chip area to save costs and improve yield. Samsung uses a special 45-degree X-Cross (XC) technology, in the same design can significantly reduce the chip area, and the establishment of dedicated database (DB), for defective screening. For customers worried about the design of confidential outflows, Samsung to commission a third party to the mask process to eliminate customer concerns.

       Samsung, in order to successfully carry out a small variety of wafer foundry strategy, and domestic and foreign designers work together, such as HanaTech, AlphaChips, KoreaChips for the Korean industry, AllChip, e-Silicon, VeriSilicon, Uniquify and other foreign industry.

       Samsung is so actively changing the foundry business strategy, mainly want to reduce the dependence on a few large customers, to avoid the wafer foundry business performance fluctuations are too large.

       South Korea said the industry will be happy to see the Samsung OEM partners to expand to small and medium enterprises, will help South Korea IC industry in a better environment, looking forward to Samsung can continue to provide high-quality foundry services, More reputation and customer trust.