Samsung Plans US$1.5 Billion Chip Testing Plant in Vietnam, Document Shows - New Straits Times Online
The plant would be Samsung’s first chip testing factory in Vietnam and is designed to ease a memory-chip shortage tied to AI demand.
- Samsung Electronics plans to invest $1.5 billion in Vietnam to build its first dedicated semiconductor testing plant, with operations scheduled to start in November 2027 in an industrial park 37 miles north of Hanoi.
- Semiconductor testing capacity became an industry-wide bottleneck through 2025 and 2026 as AI-grade memory demand outpaced installed infrastructure, while US tariff policy pushes chip-supply-chain decisions away from mainland China toward Vietnam's three-year push to become a Southeast Asian semiconductor hub.
- More than 200 Samsung engineers have worked on the Thai Nguyen site since April, with the facility designed to deliver 153.3 billion gigabits of DRAM and 255.6 billion gigabits of NAND annually; Samsung is the largest foreign investor in Vietnam with over $23 billion committed across decades.
- Vietnamese authorities approved the investment in March, though permit status remains unclear, with Samsung planning to reinvest profits "if any" up to about $2.5 billion for a potential second factory, bringing total committed and contingent investment to roughly $4 billion.
- Equipment installation is expected in the second quarter of 2027, keeping the November operational timeline on track, as Samsung addresses testing constraints without requiring higher-cost wafer fabrication expansion amid domestic labor tensions including a non-chip union injunction filed Tuesday at Suwon District Court.
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