The three major South Korean semiconductor manufacturers have indicated that they plan to move to production of 1M-bit memory chips by the end of this year, deciding that there is still room for more players in the semiconductor export market: Samsung Semiconductors & Telecommunications will complete construction of a 1M production line at one of its plants in October, putting in production capacity of 6m chips per month, and Hyundai is also to start construction of a 1M line within this year, to start volume production in the first half of next year – until now, Hyundai has supplied Texas Instruments OEM to the tune of 3m 256Ks a month.
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