Samsung's 'Project Kairos' plans a new 2nm/4nm fab at its Giheung, South Korea campus, the birthplace of its memory chip business, at an estimated cost of about US$19.23 billion, media report, turning the site into an advanced foundry and packaging hub.

Named after the Greek god of opportunity, Kairos includes a 4-phase fab, a utility building and a substation, and will mainly make logic base dies for HBM4/HBM4E, with 2nm aimed at HBM5. EUV tools could cost $6.15–7.69 billion; with other equipment and cleanroom work the total tops $15.38 billion, and could reach $23.08 billion including converting Line 6 to advanced packaging. $ASML $AMAT $TOELY $LRCX $KLAC #Samsung #semiconductors https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=280495