How Semiconductors Power Your Everyday Life

It’s 7 a.m., the alarm on your cellphone goes off. You shut off the alarm, look at your phone, make a few taps and instruct your coffee maker to start brewing your coffee downstairs. You turn on your smart TV as you get ready, you grab a yogurt from the fridge, pour your coffee into a to-go cup and step into your car equipped with the latest gadgets and driver-assist technology. During your morning routine, hundreds of semiconductor chips have already been deployed without you ever noticing.

At Samsung Austin Semiconductor, we are creating chips that shape the way you live. From daily tasks to advanced systems, almost everything we use is powered by tiny semiconductor chips.

As a foundry, Samsung Austin Semiconductor produces logic chips for a diverse range of customers across the automotive, healthcare, telecommunications and AI sectors. Logic chips act like the brain of electronic devices, processing and performing operations in real time, whereas memory chips retain information. 

Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s Austin campus is primarily focused on producing 14nm-60nm chips. Samsung Austin Semiconductor was the first fab in the world to produce 14nm chips in 2015.

Once operational, the Taylor fab will produce the first 2nm chips in the U.S. These advanced 2nm chips offer significantly higher transistor density, faster performance and lower power consumption compared to the 14nm chips. 

Powering the digital age

While Samsung Austin Semiconductor doesn’t make the Samsung smartphone in your hand, it does make the brain that powers it.

Here are just some of the roles chips play in the digital age.

• The cloud: Every time you use Google, purchase something on Amazon, watch Netflix or ask ChatGPT to create a graphic for you, you are interacting with a server. Samsung Austin Semiconductor’s fabs provide the processing power for those systems.
• 5G and connectivity: Semiconductors enable the high-speed switching and data handling required for 5G, which allows for real-time communication and the Internet of Things (IoT).
• Healthcare: Precision semiconductors allow robotic arms to assist with robotic surgery, MRI and CT scanners can produce high-resolution images in seconds thanks to chips.

For the past 30 years, Samsung Austin Semiconductor has been pushing the boundaries of semiconductor manufacturing. As users and industries demand more from technology, we will be here to power the devices of tomorrow.