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Government-backed semiconductor manufacturing complex in Yongin, South Korea, anchored by Samsung's roughly 360 trillion won fab investment plan.
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Samsung Electronics restated its 360 trillion won Yongin chip-cluster plan to residents and pledged to reuse 450,000 tons of treated wastewater a day. The total is unchanged, so suppliers have the first fab's schedule to plan around.
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The two chipmakers turned down a request to pay five years of power bills upfront, leaving the grid buildout to bonds KEPCO sold at 4.00% to 4.41% last month, with its statutory issuance ceiling tightening at the end of 2027.
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Kwak Noh-jung told a Santa Clara forum that new production bases will defend SK hynix's memory lead. The four named sites add to 1,105.4 trillion won. Indiana's fab is 5.4 trillion of that, and Japan is still under consideration.
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Tokyo Electron Korea will test the tools it sells SK hynix in its own matching clean room a kilometre from the customer's Yongin site, on a completion date the customer has already moved once. Kolon Global is the builder.
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Samsung and SK Hynix have pulled fabs that were not due until around 2045 into the early 2030s. The working group drafting Korea's 12th electricity plan is still working out how much of that power to believe.
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Seoul will take cash equity in KEPCO for the first time since its 1989 listing, because a utility carrying 210.7 trillion won of debt cannot borrow fast enough to wire the fabs.
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Three national projects need 24.7 GW of new generation, which the ministry calls 18 nuclear reactors' worth, on top of an April forecast that already assumed 40%-plus demand growth by 2040.
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