Samsung Electronics to Build Open Semiconductor R&D in Japan

Samsung Electronics announced it will set up a research and development (R&D) facility in Japan. It will be an open semiconductor R&D base that will soon rise in Yokohama.

This chip development facility project is considered a collaboration between the semiconductor companies of Japan and South Korea. According to The Korea Times, the R&D's location in the southwest of Tokyo is also home to Samsung's R&D Institute in the Japanese territory.

While they are in the same area, it was reported that Samsung's facility will be operating as a separate unit. However, not much information about the plant is available at this time.

As reported by the local Japanese media, what is certain is that the facility will be a manufacturing plant for a prototype chip device. The news just boosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's plan to hand out higher tax incentives for local semiconductor producers as stated in the new K-Chips Act.

At any rate, a Japanese paper said that Samsung Electronics' new R&D hub would generate hundreds of jobs in the country, and the target date for its completion is 2025. The operation of the center is also expected to take place in the same year, and mentioned that the Korean electronics company is also looking to make use of the available subsidies being offered by the national government for all chip investments.

Finally, Business Korea reported that Samsung Electronics is investing about 30 billion yen or around KRW300 billion for the construction of the new R&D hub in Yokohama. The main products to be manufactured here are advanced semiconductor prototypes. This is said to be the back end of chip production, where a wafer is packaged into a final product after creating the electric circuits on a wafer first.

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