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To: Sam who wrote (52076)	1/25/2012 11:54:24 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

RE:Samsung expects to crank out 10,000 12-inch 20nm-class NAND flash memory chip wafers every month" The number of wafers is what I remembered. That is 120,000 per year, which is slightly more than half of Fab 5's stated capacity. You are confused. Fab 5 will have a capacity of 200,000 wafers per MONTH fully ramped - so will Line 16. 10,000 is just the very initial MONTHLY capacity. Samsung recently fired up the world's largest memory fab in Korea. It's Line-16 megafab is expected to eventually produce NAND flash on 200,000 wafers of 300-mm diameter monthly and the phased investment is expected to total approximately 12 trillion won (about $10 billion) to completion. Samsung began mass production of 20-nm-class NAND flash memory at a rate of about 10,000 300-mm wafers per month in September. eetimes.com