TSMC and Samsung Electronics in Talks to Build Major AI Factories in the UAE
In light of the development of artificial intelligence, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics Co. are discussing constructing sizable new factories in the United Arab Emirates shortly.
According to the Wall Street Journal, there might be semiconductor projects worth over $100 billion in the United Arab Emirates.
The newspaper said on Sunday, citing persons involved with the discussions, that executives from TSMC, the largest chipmaker in the world, have recently travelled to the UAE to talk about developing a plant complex that could compete with the company’s cutting-edge facilities in Taiwan.
The Journal reported that Samsung, a South Korean giant, has also dispatched emissaries to the Middle East recently to discuss significant new operations there, citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the company’s plans.
Industry sources and Taiwanese media sites claim that on September 20, TSMC built a mobile application processor (AP) A16 for the Apple iPhone using a 4-nm microfabrication technique at its foundry factory in Arizona, United States.
The iPhone SE4, which is anticipated to launch early next year, will be powered by the A16, TSMC’s first chip made in the US.
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a government research body in the United Arab Emirates, had earlier developed a new open-source GenAI model that might rival Llama 3, OpenAI, and Google.
We earlier reported that Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) is going to supply AMD, NVIDIA’s primary rival in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market, with high-performance substrates for hyperscale data centres.
Kim Wontaek, Executive Vice President of the Strategic Marketing Center at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, confirmed the partnership.
