Samsung chairman visits semiconductor sites to highlight chip division's recovery

Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company’s chip campuses in Gyeonggi Province, Monday, highlighting the recent chip-making performance recovery of its Device Solutions (DS) Division. According to the company, Lee visited the construction site of NRD-K, a 109,000-square-meter R&D cluster that Samsung is building in Giheung District of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, with an investment of 20 trillion won ($13.5 billion) through 2030. NRD-K began installing its facilities in November last year, including high-resolution extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment for next-generation memory semiconductor development, deposition tools for new materials and wafer bonding infrastructure designed to enable structures that join two wafers together. During the visit, Lee was briefed on the latest updates in next-generation technologies for memory, foundry and system semiconductors and inspected new R&D facilities installed at the cluster. He also visited the division’s Hwaseong Campus in Gyeonggi Province, where he reviewed manufacturing automation systems powered by di