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[๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot off the Feed] Can Samsung Deliver for Tesla? The Foundry Gamble in Texas

A $16.5bn contract tests more than yieldโ€”itโ€™s a bet on culture, credibility, and comeback

์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ? ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ๋„๋ฐ•
165์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ณ„์•ฝ, ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์œจ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€”๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ, ๋ถ€ํ™œ์„ ๊ฑด ์‹œํ—˜๋Œ€

๐Ÿ˜Ž ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด?

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๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Samsungโ€™s eight-year, $16.5bn chipmaking deal with Tesla has grabbed headlinesโ€”but industry insiders say itโ€™s not just about chips. Itโ€™s a high-stakes bet on reviving a struggling foundry business while reshaping a corporate culture historically optimized for memory, not custom AI chips.
์‚ผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ์˜ 165์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ, 8๋…„ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ„ํƒœ๋กœ์šด ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ถ€ํ™œ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์งœ์—ฌ์ง„ ์กฐ์ง๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๊ฐœ์กฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋А๋ƒ๋Š” โ€˜๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฆฌ์…‹โ€™์˜ ์Šน๋ถ€์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

With its foundry market share down to 7.7% and production issues eroding client trust, Samsung faces an uphill climb. The Tesla deal may boost credibilityโ€”but it also exposes Samsung to risk if it canโ€™t consistently deliver on volume, quality, and timeline.
ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ์œจ์ด 7.7%๋กœ ์ถ”๋ฝํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง„ ์ƒํ™ฉ. ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํšŒ๋ณต์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ด์ž, ๋™์‹œ์— ๋‚ฉ๊ธฐยท์ˆ˜์œจยทํ’ˆ์งˆ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ํ•œ ์น˜์˜ ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋„ ์šฉ๋‚ฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ทนํ•œ ์‹œํ—˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Foundry Model (ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ธ)
    A business model where chips are produced only after receiving a customerโ€™s design and order.
    โ†’ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์„ค๊ณ„์™€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹. ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์„ ํ–‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ.

  • Yield Rate (์ˆ˜์œจ)
    The proportion of usable chips produced per wafer. Low yield drives up cost and lowers trust.
    โ†’ ์›จ์ดํผ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์–‘ํ’ˆ ๋น„์œจ. ์ˆ˜์œจ์ด ๋‚ฎ์œผ๋ฉด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋‹จ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ , ์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง.

  • Stranded Asset (๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋œ ์ž์‚ฐ)
    A major investment that becomes unprofitable or unused due to market failure or lack of demand.
    โ†’ ์ˆ˜์š” ๋ถ€์กฑ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๋ชป ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํˆฌ์ž ์ž์‚ฐ.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Samsungโ€™s Taylor plant in Texas was at risk of becoming a stranded asset. Lacking anchor clients like Apple or Nvidia, the fab couldnโ€™t even start operations. The Tesla deal breaks that droughtโ€”but it comes with strings.
์‚ผ์„ฑ์˜ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๊ณต์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์—†์–ด ๊ฐ€๋™์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ฑ„ โ€˜๊ณ ๋ฆฝ ์ž์‚ฐโ€™์ด ๋  ์œ„๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์„ ์ฑ„์šด ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์— ํ˜ธ์˜์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ์€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

With yield rates still low and corporate silos deep, success hinges on more than machinesโ€”it demands a mindset shift. Elon Musk reportedly plans to supervise production himself. That tells you just how thin the margin for error really is.
์ˆ˜์œจ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ๋ถ€์„œ ๊ฐ„ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ๋„ ๊นŠ์€ ์‚ผ์„ฑ. ์ง„์งœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์€ โ€˜์žฅ๋น„โ€™๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ โ€˜์ž์„ธโ€™์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋ผ์ธ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฐ๋…ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„  ๊ฑด, ์‹ค์ˆ˜ ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ credibility test(์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ์‹œํ—˜๋Œ€)
โ€œThe Tesla contract is a credibility test for Samsungโ€™s entire foundry strategy.โ€ "์ด๋ฒˆ ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ์‚ผ์„ฑ ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋žต ์ „์ฒด์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๋Œ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ yield or die(์ˆ˜์œจ์ด๋ƒ, ์ถ”๋ฝ์ด๋ƒ)

โ€œItโ€™s yield or dieโ€”without reliability, no client will stay.โ€ "'์ˆ˜์œจ์ด๋ƒ, ์ถ”๋ฝ์ด๋ƒ'โ€”๋‚ฉํ’ˆ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿ“Œ custom over commodity(๋Œ€๋Ÿ‰์ƒ์‚ฐ์—์„œ ๋งž์ถคํ˜•์œผ๋กœ)

โ€œTo succeed in AI chips, Samsung must pivot from commodity to custom.โ€ "AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์นฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์€ '๋Œ€๋Ÿ‰์ƒ์‚ฐ'์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ '๋งž์ถคํ˜•'์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
Tech and financial media like the FT, WSJ, and Bloomberg are treating this deal as a turning point for Samsungโ€™s U.S. ambitions. While some analysts view it as a credibility boost, others see it as a โ€œdesperation dealโ€ made under pressure.
FT, WSJ, Bloomberg ๋“ฑ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” โ€˜์‹ ๋ขฐ ํšŒ๋ณตโ€™์ด๋ผ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” โ€˜์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๋”œโ€™์ด๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์กฐ๊ฑด์˜ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌํ•จ์„ ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

Tesla may have chosen Samsungโ€”but thatโ€™s just the beginning. In the foundry world, winning trust takes more than a contract. It takes consistency.
ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฑด โ€˜์‹œ์ž‘โ€™์ผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ โ€˜์ง€์†์„ฑโ€™์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… September 2016 โ€“ Apple drops Samsung as main foundry supplier in favor of TSMC
๐Ÿ“… 2016๋…„ 9์›” โ€“ ์• ํ”Œ, ์‚ผ์„ฑ ๋Œ€์‹  TSMC๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์š” ํŒŒ์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ์„ ์ •

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  • "Samsungโ€™s $16.5bn Tesla Deal Will Test Its Chip Revival Strategy" (Financial Times, 2025)

  • "Taylor Plant Risks Becoming Stranded Asset" (Macquarie, 2024)

  • "Inside Teslaโ€™s AI6 Production Plans" (Bloomberg, 2025)

  • "Foundry vs Memory: Why Samsung Needs a Cultural Shift" (Counterpoint Research, 2025)

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