Samsung's Quiet Taiwan Play: Pairing Memory with Foundry to Chip Away at TSMC

Samsung chief discusses potential partnership with Taiwan's top fabless firm

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with the head of MediaTek, Taiwan's leading fabless semiconductor company, earlier this week to discuss partnership, industry sources said Friday. Lee met with Rick Tsai, chief executive officer of MediaTek Inc., in Taiwan on Thursday as part of Samsung's efforts to bolster its foundry business in response to soaring chip demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, according to the sources…

Samsung's quiet Taiwan play: Pairing memory with foundry to chip away at TSMC

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong quietly visited Taiwan on May 21 and met with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai, according to semiconductor supply chain sources, in a move aimed at expanding Samsung's foundry business by securing another major customer after deals with Tesla and renewed work with AMD. Samsung declined to comment, and MediaTek had not issued an official response by press time.

Samsung boss makes low-key Taiwan trip to steal MediaTek from TSMC

Samsung's foundry division has a new spring in its step. It already has a $16.5 billion chipmaking deal with Tesla, and is enjoying interest from others like AMD for 2nm chip production. A new report indicates that Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee has made a low-key trip to Taiwan with a high-level delegation to meet MediaTek and potentially pivot it away from TSMC. MediaTek could get preferential access to memory chips The report clai…

Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong visits Taiwan to lure MediaTek away from TSMC

Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong has reportedly entered Taiwan for a meeting with MediaTek, in an effort to steal the chip designer as a foundry client.Continue reading at TweakTown

Samsung's Chairman Lee Jae-yong Has Reportedly Slipped Into Taiwan To Steal MediaTek As A Foundry Client From TSMC

Samsung is apparently feeling confident enough on the back of its rapidly growing coffers to try to eat some of TSMC's lunch, especially the proverbial course related to MediaTek, if one were to adhere to a cullinary-themed analogy. As a case in point, consider the latest rumor, which posits that Samsung's Chairman is currently courting MediaTek on TSMC's home turf. Samsung wants to rope in MediaTek as a foundry client, and is not above dangling…