{"id":1020625,"date":"2026-07-14T07:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020625"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:16:14","slug":"samsung-electronics-to-advance-start-of-chip-factory-in-yongin-to-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/samsung-electronics-to-advance-start-of-chip-factory-in-yongin-to-2029\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics to advance start of chip factory in Yongin to 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said on Monday it aims to bring forward the start of operations of its chip fabrication site in the city \u200cof \u2060Yongin, south \u2060of Seoul, to 2029 from 2030-2031, as it seeks to keep up with surging demand for memory chips used in AI infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, both Samsung and its South Korean rival SK \u2060Hynix announced pledges \u200cto invest hundreds of billions of dollars in expanding production \u2060capacity at home, after President Lee Jae Myung called for measures to narrow regional economic divides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said on Monday it aims to bring forward the start of operations of its chip fabrication site in the city \u200cof \u2060Yongin, south \u2060of Seoul, to 2029 from 2030-2031, as it seeks to keep up with surging demand for memory chips used in AI infrastructure. Last month, both Samsung and its South Korean rival SK \u2060Hynix announced pledges \u200cto invest hundreds of billions of dollars in expanding production \u2060capacity at home, after President Lee Jae Myung called for measures to narrow regional economic divides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020644,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020625\/revisions\/1020644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}