TSMC Widens Its Gap with Samsung in Foundry Business

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www.businesskorea.co.kr, Jun. 02, 2021 – 

The gap between TSMC and Samsung Electronics, the top two players in the global foundry market, widened further in the first quarter of this year.

Samsung Electronics' global foundry market share in the first quarter shrank 1 percentage point to 17 percent compared to the previous quarter, said TrendForce on June 1. Samsung's foundry sales fell 2 percent (by about 76.5 billion won) to US$4.18 billion.

TrendForce attributed the drop in Samsung Electronics' market share to the shutdown of the company's Austin plant in Texas for about a month due to a snow storm in February. Samsung Electronics announced at a first-quarter earnings conference call that its damage from the snowstorm amounted to about 300 billion won to 400 billion won. The Austin plant started operating normally in early April.

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