Samsung (005930.KS) is a publicly traded Foundries company founded in 1983 and based in Suwon, South Korea.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 1975 | IPO | — | — | — |

IEEE roadmap research finds multi-die assemblies and heterogeneous integration are becoming standard at 2nm and below, driven by AI compute demands outpacing transistor scaling.

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Samsung Foundry's 2nm-class node built on Gate-All-Around (MBCFET nanosheet) transistors, which Samsung adopted ahead of TSMC at 3nm and now extends to SF2. It improves performance, power, and area over SF3 and adds an Extreme High Density (xHD) library to shrink area further, while staying design-compatible with SF3. SF2 is central to Samsung's bid to close the leading-edge foundry gap with TSMC and win AI and HPC silicon.
Samsung's high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, branded Shinebolt. The 12-layer (36GB) stack delivers up to ~1,180 GB/s of bandwidth at 9.2 Gbps per pin. Shinebolt is Samsung's entry in the fierce HBM race against SK Hynix and Micron to supply memory for Nvidia and other AI chips, an area where Samsung has worked to requalify its parts and regain share.
Samsung's next-generation HBM, which entered mass production in early 2026 after qualification sampling to Nvidia. Built on advanced 1c DRAM with a 4nm logic base die, it delivers up to ~2.7x higher throughput and ~40% better power efficiency than HBM3E, with a 2,048-bit interface enabling up to ~3,300 GB/s. Samsung reportedly sold out its entire 2026 HBM4 capacity, underscoring the memory crunch driving the AI buildout.
As the world's largest memory maker, Samsung supplies leading-edge DDR5 and LPDDR DRAM on its 1b/1c nodes plus high-layer-count V-NAND flash for SSDs across data-center, mobile, and PC markets. This commodity-and-premium memory franchise, alongside HBM, makes Samsung a primary supplier of the DRAM and storage that AI servers and consumer devices depend on.
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