Samsung Electronics is anticipated to finalize its funding plan for foundry growth in the US and South Korea, and make it official as early as subsequent month, based on business forecasts on Monday.

After collaborating within the conferences with US President Joe Biden and Korean President Moon Jae-in final week, Samsung appears to be accelerating its inside decision-making course of to finalize the funding plan each for Korea and the US in response to the 2 governments’ calls.

The full funding quantity for not less than two new fabs – one doubtless in Austin, Texas, and the opposite in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province — is estimated to be over 50 trillion gained ($44.7 billion). Some forecast the determine might attain 70 trillion gained.

It has been revealed by filings by Texas authorities that the Korean chipmaker is planning to construct a $17 billion foundry fab in Austin. Samsung has additionally talked with different US states together with Arizona and New York, however Austin appears to be essentially the most viable choice, contemplating its present operations and ample tax incentives.

A current Texas energy outage triggered by a winter storm, which brought about the Samsung plant in Austin to freeze its operation for greater than a month, has given Samsung an edge in its negotiations with Texan authorities to win higher advantages from them.

It’s extremely doubtless that Samsung might announce the US funding earlier than President Moon’s deliberate go to subsequent month to the US for a summit with President Biden.

Samsung stays silent on the corporate’s schedule for the upcoming investments.

In Korea, Samsung has been laying the groundwork for its third fab in Pyeongtaek, to be referred to as “P3,” which would be the most cutting-edge foundry fab within the nation.

The corporate was anticipated to give you the P3 funding plan within the second half of this 12 months, however business observers imagine the plan could possibly be moved ahead contemplating the talks with President Moon and the federal government’s upcoming coverage bundle for the chip business.

The P3 fab is being deliberate to be constructed on land with an space of 700,000 sq. meters, which is anticipated to be the world’s single largest. It might be 1.75 occasions bigger than Samsung’s second fab, during which it injected 30 trillion gained.

Samsung additionally plans to equip the brand new fab with essentially the most superior excessive ultraviolet lithography gear, which prices almost 200 billion gained per unit.

Business observers predict that the P3 funding could possibly be as huge as 40 trillion to 50 trillion gained.

With regard to Samsung’s hesitant stance on its funding plans, leaders of the Korean enterprise group have made requests to the federal government to pardon Samsung’s chief Lee Jae-yong.

On Friday, Sohn Kyung-shik, chairman of the Korea Enterprises Federation, recommended granting a pardon for the imprisoned Samsung chief to Hong Nam-ki, the nation’s prime financial policymaker, throughout a gathering with authorities officers.

“Within the US, the president is taking the lead in reviving its semiconductor business,” Sohn mentioned. “Frankly, I’m frightened that Korea, the world’s chip powerhouse, might lose its place available in the market.”

By Tune Su-hyun ([email protected])