Samsung scouts experts from TSMC, Apple, Qualcomm

• Published date: 09 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

Samsung Electronics is recruiting key workers from its rivals and top tech companies around the world, such as TSMC, Apple and Qualcomm, seeking to take the lead in the tech industry, according to the Korean electronics company and industry officials, Thursday.

Samsung, which is trying to bolster its presence in the chip foundry business, recently recruited former TSMC engineer Lin Jing-Cheng as its executive vice president. Spending 19 years at TSMC, the global leader in the semiconductor foundry business, Lin is a specialist in the chip packaging business.

A Samsung spokesman said, "The company hired him recently."

The move is aimed at accelerating the development of advanced back-end processes in which Samsung is actively investing. The back-end process refers to the cutting and packaging of circuits and testing of chip performance and reliability.

The back-end process is becoming more important due to the growing movement in the industry to improve chip performance by advancing the cutting and packaging of circuits and testing of chip performance and reliability, as developments in the production of chips at the micro level have slowed down.

In line with the move, Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited a plant in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province in February to check the company's capabilities in next-generation semiconductor packaging technologies. There, the chairman emphasized the importance of...