South Korean company Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. plans to launch a so-called foundry production every year to double the production of chips for other manufacturers for as long as Samsung can not overtake his rival and the leader in this market, the company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. This statement is published in the Chosun Ilbo "(Chosun Ilbo), the largest newspaper of the Republic of Korea, and cites as a source of an unnamed company.

The company currently is Samsung's second-largest chipmaker and a leader in the manufacture of DRAM and NAND flash memory, but Samsung has received from the foundry business is only a few hundred million dollars. Chosun Ilbo quoted a representative of Samsung Electronics, according to which the company decided to expand its foundry in the near future become as a major producer of chips, like TSMC.

Samsung entered the foundry business in 2006. According to IC Insights, at the same time, sales of other leading manufacturers, Texas Instruments and IBM. The incentive to quit Samsung for foundry market is likely to become the projected annual growth of memory and foundry market over the next few years.