Samsung Foundry
Samsung Foundry is a semiconductor foundry headquartered in South Korea that manufactures chips for other companies.
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Samsung Foundry is a semiconductor foundry headquartered in South Korea that manufactures chips for other companies.
Basic
Samsung's contract foundry division, second largest globally. Pioneered GAA (Gate-All-Around) transistors at 3nm before TSMC. Fabricates some Qualcomm, Google, and NVIDIA chips. Yield issues at 3nm have limited AI chip wins versus TSMC.
Deep
Process nodes in the dataset: 4LPP (volume, 2023), 3GAA (ramping, 2024), 2GAA (development, 2026) and SF5 (volume, 2021). Clients include Qualcomm, Google and Tenstorrent.
Expert
Fab locations: Hwaseong, South Korea, Taylor, Texas, USA and Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Capacity utilization comes from quarterly earnings disclosures, dated on the foundries page.
Depending on why you're here
- ·Nodes: 4LPP, 3GAA, 2GAA and SF5
- ·Chips made at Samsung Foundry are listed on /foundries/samsung-foundry
- ·Clients: Qualcomm, Google and Tenstorrent
- ·Samsung Foundry is a factory company that makes chips designed by others
Frequently Asked Questions
Read the primary sources
- Samsung Foundrysemiconductor.samsung.com
- Samsung Q1 2025 Earningswww.samsung.com