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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (38107)	10/11/2000 8:13:42 AM
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Samsung Announces Five-Year Strategies Ahead of operations at its new Line 10, Samsung Electronics has announced its new strategies for the semiconductor and TFT-LCD (thin film transistor-liquid crystal display ) businesses. Y W Lee, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business, said Samsung will improve its competitiveness in the memory, system LSI and TFT-LCD businesses, reaching total sales of US$30 billion by 2005. In order to accomplish this goal, Samsung Electronics will strengthen its position as the number one supplier of DRAM (dynamic random access memory), SRAM (static random access memory), NAND flash memory and next-generation Rambus DRAM products. The system LSI (Large Scale Integration) business will be organized around eight key strategic product areas, becoming the top manufacturer in all of these fields by 2005. Samsung Electronics will soon begin production at Line 10, which is located in a second fabrication facility in Hwasung, Korea, and the company expects to begin construction of Line 11 later this month. Production is expected to begin at Line 11 in the second-half of 2001. These additional lines will allow the company to become the first-to-market with next-generation, high-capacity memory products, such as Rambus DRAM and flash memory. The company also plans to break ground on a new 8-inch production line exclusively for system LSI semiconductors. Production of 0.13 to 0.18micron design rule ASIC (application specific integrated circuit), CPU (central processing unit) and SoC (system-on-a-chip) products will begin from early 2002. Through these efforts, sales of system LSI division sales will increase from this year's US$1.7 billion by 24% every year to reach US$3 billion in 2002 and US$5 billion in 2005. In addition, Samsung will nurture its LDI (LCD Driver IC), MCU (microcontroller unit), CPU and System ASIC business. By 2005, the company will nurture its mixed signal, digital consumer, PC and peripheral, and telecommunications network chips to become the top company in these four strategic areas. (October 2000 Issue, Nikkei Electronics Asia)