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Chip factory expansion: Samsung sends 300 more workers to China
The world’s largest memory chipmaker, Samsung Electronics Co., said on Friday that it had sent 300 more South Korean engineers and workers to China to complete the expansion of its second chip manufacturing facility there amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Samsung said engineers and workers, including some from its subcontractors, left for the Chinese city of Xian on a chartered flight earlier in the day.
The move came a month after Samsung dispatched 200 engineers to the Xian plant in Shaanxi Province.
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Samsung said the workers will be exempted from 14-day mandatory isolation under a fast-track entry system approved by South Korea and China, but they still need to be quarantined for three days even after they all test negative for the virus.
Earlier this week, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong returned home from his trip to the Xian plant.
The Xian plant is Samsung’s only foreign memory chip factory that makes 3D NAND flash products.
The South Korean tech giant last year revealed it will invest an additional U.S.$8 billion in the plant for expansion.
NAN
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