Samsung is the growing demand for smartphones and tablet PCs to answer. It now receives permission from the South Korean government to a memory chip factory in China to put down.
The new plant will make chips to be used in smartphones, tablets and MP3 players. Analysts say they are concerned about information leakage, but that chip manufacturing industry is a highly specialized and that espionage is not that simple.
“Such questions factories investments of several billion, so it’s not so easy just to walk into a chip and steal a copy,” said Tim Charlton of Charlton Media Group.
Increased demand
Samsung will produce NAND flash memory. According to analyst firm Gartner, the global NAND chip industry last year about $ 29 billion worth. Part of the future growth is expected in China, where economic expansion and increased purchasing power resulting in a growing demand for high-tech gadgets.
China is the second largest economy in 2015 and representing 55% of worldwide chip production, says Gartner. According to Charlton, China is the largest producer and consumer of electronic goods. “When those two elements together, you realize that the Samsung chip as close to the end user to produce,” he explains.
