Yokohama \u2013 South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics\u00a0held a ceremony\u00a0to mark the full opening of its semiconductor research base in Yokohama, the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture.<\/p>\n
Amid growing demand for higher-end chips in line with wider use of artificial intelligence, the company aims to enhance cooperation with Japanese material and equipment makers and research institutes.<\/p>\n
Some 100 people, including Samsung executives, representatives of the Japanese and South Korean governments, and officials of Samsung client companies, attended the ceremony held Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Samsung Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun said that he believes the new base, located in Yokohama\u2019s Minato Mirai waterfront district, will become a driving force for promoting technological exchanges between the two Southeast Asian countries and the joint development of their next-generation semiconductor packaging industries.<\/p>\n
The research base was established in 2023 to accelerate the development of technology for the back-end process, which involves the assembly of final chip products. After facilities and equipment were introduced in stages, the base became capable of conducting full-scale experiments and evaluations this year.<\/p>\n
A total of 95 people, including researchers from Japan and South Korea, currently work at the base.<\/p>\n
Samsung plans to invest \u00a540 billion ($260 million), including \u00a520 billion\u00a0subsidies from the Japanese government, in the base by 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yokohama \u2013 South Korean chip giant Samsung Electronics\u00a0held a ceremony\u00a0to mark the full opening of its semiconductor research…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1137,4154,127,276,74782],"class_list":["post-148085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-ai","tag-chipmakers","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-yokohama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}