[시드니=뉴스핌] Correspondent Kwon Ji-eon = Samsung Electronics is visiting Arizona, Texas, and New York to build a semiconductor factory in the US with up to 17 billion dollars (about 18.78 trillion won). The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 22nd (local time). Cited and reported.
The WSJ report on this day is the news following the Bloomberg report that Samsung Electronics is considering the expansion of a semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas by investing 10 billion dollars, and attention is focused on Samsung Electronics’ US investment plan.
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WSJ said that Samsung Electronics is considering an industrial complex in New York State, two in and outside of Phoenix, in the state of Arizona, two in and outside of Austin, in the state of Texas, and in Genesh County in western New York, as the site of a new semiconductor factory.
A source familiar with the issue explained that whether the U.S. government will offer incentives large enough to offset other countries’ offers or low costs is an important variable in Samsung’s plant construction plan.
Currently, the US is reviewing billions of dollars of funding to reduce its dependence on Taiwan, China, and Korea and to increase its own semiconductor production capacity, and incentives related to the production of new semiconductors were also included in the defense authorization legislation passed this month.
As a result of reviewing a letter sent by WSJ to Samsung Electronics and an official from Goodyear, Arizona, Samsung’s US semiconductor plant is scheduled to start operation by October 2022 and will employ up to 1,900 people. Goodyear city authorities are offering various incentives such as tax reductions or infrastructure upgrades to attract large industrial projects such as factory construction.
The media said that the U.S. has never provided support to semiconductor factories at the federal government level, but the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global supply chain of strategic components required for core technologies, suggesting that the U.S. should reduce its dependence on the supply chain. He said he has reduced the need.
According to a report from the Boston Consulting Group last year, the US share of the semiconductor production market has declined to about 12% while the Asian semiconductor industry has grown over the past decades. Therefore, it is analyzed that the US needs a huge amount of new funding in order to lower its dependence on foreign countries and to produce itself.
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