Samsung’s Pyeongtaek campus in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, is seen in this photo provided by Samsung Electronics Co. on Sept. 7, 2022.
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to establish a foundry ecosystem in collaboration with its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) partners, aiming to close the gap with Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer.
Samsung announced through its newsroom that it will disclose the agreements’ content with IP partners such as Synopsys, Cadence, and Alphawave, as well as its IP roadmap strategy during the Samsung Foundry Forum scheduled to be held on June 28 in San Jose.
Under the partnership, the chip giant will provide essential foundry manufacturing data, including process design kits and design methodologies, to its IP partners.
The IP partners will develop IP optimized for the Samsung foundry process and provide it to fabless customers within and outside South Korea.
This partnership will encompass the necessary IP for the entire spectrum of foundry applications.
Samsung aims to attract new fabless customers and enhance its capability to support customers’ development work by proactively securing essential IP required by various customers, including those in the fields of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, graphics processing, automobiles, and mobile devices.
Within this plan, the IP portfolio will include chips ranging from 3 nanometers to 8 nanometers.
This will enable domestic and foreign fabless customers to utilize the IP optimized for Samsung’s foundry process at the appropriate stage of their product development.
Samsung emphasized that this would greatly reduce errors from the early design stage while significantly shortening the time and cost from prototype production to verification and mass production.
According to the company, Samsung had collaborated with 56 IP partners as of October 2022, providing more than 4,000 pieces of intellectual property.
Since the establishment of a new department within its chip division dedicated to the foundry business in 2017, Samsung has consistently increased the number of its IP partners and the quantity of IP, both of which have tripled.
Kevin Lee (kevinlee@koreabizwire.com)
