Corporate
Building the Brains behind Samsung
12/21/2017
By John Taylor
Samsung Austin Semiconductor, where I’ve worked for the past 20 years, has grown to be Samsung’s largest facility in the U.S, both in physical size and workforce. To date, Samsung’s semiconductor business is a $17 billion investment, and one of the most significant foreign direct investments in the country.
And while it may be our largest U.S. facility, with the plant size at 2.45 million total square feet, it’s actually where we produce some of our smallest and most precise technology. Building application processors is an exact science, crucial to the rest of our business at Samsung as these products are the brains behind any given tablet or handset that the average consumer uses.
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— SamsungDC (@SamsungDC) December 20, 2017
At SAS, we’re always asking the question ‘why.’ Why shouldn’t your phone’s battery life be longer? Why can’t it run faster? Why shouldn’t your car be able to talk to the road?
SAS is the place where the technical meets with the creative, and where Samsung is coming up with our very best product solutions. And it’s this American ingenuity and disruptive attitude — never assuming that the current way is the best way — that has made the innovations developed here at SAS so critical to Samsung’s global semiconductor business.