South Korea is waiting for engineers to move overseas

Late 80s: Japanese engineers at Samsung

Detailed manufacturing know-how from Japan, application from Micron

<Samsung in 1995, and then Micron released 256 Mbit DRAM for the first time at such a low price that Japanese semiconductor manufacturers could make it No, I was shocked. When Samsung made the announcement, the head of a domestic semiconductor manufacturer calmly told the author, "Because labor costs are cheap in South Korea. Our company won't be competing for discounts in DRAM." Labor costs account for only 5-8% of DRAM manufacturing costs, according to one industry consultant. In other words, labor costs have little to do with DRAM manufacturing. Therefore, Japanese semiconductor companies were stunned by the cheap DRAM products announced by Micron, which has high labor costs. It was called the arrival of the Black Ships or Micron Shock. Conversely, it can be said that Japanese semiconductor managers were ignorant of DRAM costs. The subsequent decline of Japanese semiconductors and the rapid advance of Samsung are well known.