Tuesday, February 22nd 2022
Samsung Employees Being Investigated for "Fabricating" Yields
Samsung Electronics is hit by a major scandal involving current and former employees. It's being alleged that these employees are involved in falsifying information about the semiconductor fabrication yields of the company's 3/4/5 nanometer nodes to clear them for commercial activity. This came to light when Samsung was observing lower than expected yields after the nodes were approved for mass-production of logic chips for Samsung, as well as third-party chip-designers. A falsified yield figure can have a cascading impact across the supply-chain, as wafer orders and pricing are decided on the basis of yields. Samsung however, has downplayed the severity of the matter. The group has initiated an investigation into Samsung Device Solutions, the business responsible for the foundry arm of the company. This includes a thorough financial audit of the foundry to investigate if the investments made to improve yields were properly used.
Sources:
DigiTimes, InfoStock Daily
17 Comments on Samsung Employees Being Investigated for "Fabricating" Yields
Flogging the bottom until morale and smooth operation commences will go exactly no where.
Executives always inflate numbers, close their ears to all news that doesn’t meet that inflated unreality and pressures the low rungs until the workers are too scared to say any different.
Back door was left open like 30 series gpu manufactures did ?
scapegoats incoming.................
I can say I'm surprised, but it could explain some of the supply shortage, which I still think was faked just to boost profits from artificial price gouging. Samsung has a history of magically having accidents so this is something new, but still in there with the prior price fixing scandal.
I feel for the employees that were likely just "following orders" when they get let go. Plausible deniability...