During its second-quarter 2026 earnings call, Samsung said it will begin construction on the second semiconductor manufacturing fab in Taylor, Texas, by the end of 2026.
The company is targeting mass production at the facility in 2030.
The first fab in Taylor, called Fab 1, remains on track to begin operations in 2026 or early 2027, followed by expansion plans to 2 nm in 2027.
In November 2021, Samsung decided on Taylor as the location for its first dedicated chip fab in the U.S. and planned to invest about $17 billion on the facility. The facility was billed as a way for the U.S. to continue its domestic chip production strategy to secure supply chain resiliency and national security in chipmaking. For Samsung, it would give it a leg up in garnering business from U.S.-based chipmakers to produce state-of-the-art semiconductors.
Samsung originally said it planned to build just one fab. Later it released documents showing it planned to build as many as 11 semiconductor fabs at the Taylor location to the tune of a $200 billion investment. It is unclear if that is still the plan. Under the initial strategy, the fabs would come online over the next 15 years with the last being in the early 2040s.
