{"id":513,"date":"2015-05-11T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:07:10","slug":"samsung-building-monstrous-14-billion-semiconductor-complex-larger-400-football-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/samsung-building-monstrous-14-billion-semiconductor-complex-larger-400-football-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Is Building a Monstrous $14 Billion Semiconductor Complex Larger Than 400 Football Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is making major moves in South Korea, as the electronics giant is currently in the process of building a $14 billion semiconductor complex larger than 400 football fields en route to establishing its own Silicon Valley so-to-speak.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPyeongtaek Semiconductor Valley\u201d is set to open in 2017, and will look to elevate Samsung as the maker of the most semiconductors in the world, a title the company already holds when it comes to manufacturing smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the city of Pyeongtaek, approximately a three hour drive from downtown Seoul, the factory will reportedly produce D-RAM and chips for the Internet of Things market.<\/p>\n<p>With smartphone profits lagging a bit for Samsung at the moment, their semiconductor chip expansion probably represents the best business move for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Apple relies on Samsung&#8217;s chips for iPhones and guess what? They sell a lot of iPhones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is making major moves in South Korea, as the electronics giant is currently in the process of building a $14 billion semiconductor complex larger than 400 football fields en route to establishing its own Silicon Valley so-to-speak. The \u201cPyeongtaek Semiconductor Valley\u201d is set to open in 2017, and will look to elevate Samsung as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[328,326,325,327],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}