Dutch manufacturer of chip-making instruments ASML will jointly invest 1 trillion South Korean won ($760 million) with South Korean chipmaker Samsung Electronics to construct a plant that develops slicing-edge semiconductor processing abilities in South Korea.
The announcement came as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is in the Netherlands for a four-day consult with which seeks to forge a “semiconductor alliance” between the two countries.
ASML is the enviornment’s handiest maker of gross ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines which are required to make basically the most developed chips unbiased like these in the latest Apple iPhones which might perhaps well be manufactured by Taiwan’s TSMC.
“The technological innovation led by ASML is changing into a resounding motive force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution around the enviornment, and Dutch semiconductor corporations unbiased like ASML and ASM are constructing new facilities for manufacturing, R&D, and talent coaching in Korea,” South Korea’s presidential station of labor acknowledged Tuesday.
Yoon visited the headquarters of ASML on Tuesday with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, and toured the manufacturing discipline of next-era EUV machines.
‘Turning level’ for Korea-Netherlands ties
Samsung is the enviornment’s largest maker for dynamic random-salvage admission to memory chips, which might perhaps well be utilized in person units unbiased like smartphones and computers. South Korean chipmakers depend on ASML’s EUV machines to form sooner and more ambiance friendly chips than rivals.
The statement also acknowledged ASML will collaborate with South Korean chip huge SK Hynix, the enviornment’s second-largest DRAM chipmaker, to decrease energy usage and charges for EUVs by draw of hydrogen gas recycling abilities.
Sooner than his consult with to the Netherlands, Yoon knowledgeable media outlet AFP that semiconductors are “the linchpin of Korea-Netherlands cooperation.”
“The Netherlands is house to ASML, which produces the lithography instruments that makes semiconductors, and for years the two countries have worked together ‘in an exemplary manner,” the president acknowledged at that time.
“[This] will worth a in point of fact valuable turning level for the Korea-Netherlands semiconductor alliance.”
He acknowledged this consult with to the Netherlands will serve both countries “attach a gleaming institutional framework that can intensively tackle global semiconductor supply chains,” even as semiconductors emerge as strategic resources and geopolitical risks surrounding global supply chains grow.
