According to Korea Herald , Samsung has just hired a high-level employee at TSMC, namely Lim Jun-Cheng. He worked in this Taiwanese company for about 000 years, and before that, he worked in Micron Technology. Here’s some serious background.
Juncheng Lim will lead Samsung’s advanced packaging team, which is part of the device solutions division, which is an important part of developing chips. He has worked for TSMC develops 3D packaging technology, so this could be a huge blow to the South Korean tech giant.
Samsung’s Exynos chipsets for smartphones, while powerful, are often criticized. Qualcomm’s chips are generally more powerful overall thanks to the Adreno GPU, while TSMC’s manufacturing process is arguably more efficient. So it’s been a long time since this year’s Galaxy S series featured a Snapdragon variant.
The latest hires suggest that Samsung is restructuring and will try again soon. If Lin can turn things around, it could attract some much-needed customers like Apple and Qualcomm, most of which are now sticking to TSMC.
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