Samsung Electronics Faces Production Defects and Denials

TapTechNews June 26th news. South Korea's Nate reported that there was a production defect in the semiconductor wafer production process of Samsung Electronics' domestic (refers to South Korea) foundry division.

News came from the South Korean financial and securities industries that a defect of 2500 batches occured in the second-generation 3-nanometer process of Samsung Electronics' foundry wafer manufacturing plant, resulting in a loss of 1 trillion Korean won (currently about 5.231 billion yuan). These wafers had to be all discarded. And the production scale of 2500 batches is equivalent to about 65,000 12-inch wafers per month.

The Chosun Ilbo of South Korea reported that the defect (affect) that affected the quality occurred in Samsung Electronics' foundry wafer manufacturing plant, so the yield was affected. The scale of damage is about 50 wafers. Such a scale belongs to the D-level accident in the company's internal accident response classification, which is not a major accident.

Today, Samsung Electronics denied the report about the production defect in its wafer plant and responded that these reports are unfounded.

According to TapTechNews' previous report, it is said that Samsung has lost the orders of Google and Qualcomm due to problems with the yield and energy efficiency of 3nm mass production. In addition, the yield of the Samsung Exynos 2500 chip is currently less than 20%, and it is still unclear whether it can be used in the Galaxy S25 phone.