Samsung Electro-Mechanics is up more than 7% early on the 15th. Buying appears to have surged after news that the company is pushing a large-scale investment in its Vietnam manufacturing subsidiary.
As of 9:20 a.m. on the day, Samsung Electro-Mechanics was trading at 630,000 won, up 46,000 won (7.88%) from the previous session on the Korea Exchange.
According to Bloomberg News on the previous day, Samsung Electro-Mechanics is understood to be planning to invest $1.2 billion (about 1.8 trillion won) in its Vietnam manufacturing subsidiary to expand production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), a high value-added substrate.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is said to have received an investment registration certificate related to FC-BGA production, a high value-added semiconductor substrate, from the Vietnam Foreign Investment Agency.
FC-BGA is a high-density package substrate in which a semiconductor chip is flipped and mounted on a substrate and then connected with fine metal balls. As demand has surged recently, supply shortages have continued.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has been producing FC-BGA in Vietnam since 2024.