Samsung storms into Silicon Valley with plans to build ‘massive’ semiconductor campus

Samsung storms into Silicon Valley with plans to build ‘massive’ semiconductor campus:
While Samsung (005930) has traditionally been a Korean company through and through, it may now want to put more of an American stamp on its operations. The Los Angeles Times reports that Samsung has been aggressively expanding its presence in Silicon Valley recently by building its own innovation center, by launching a $100 million venture fund for Silicon Valley startups and by building "a massive new semiconductor campus with a distinctive design destined to compete with Apple's proposed spaceship-like campus for the title of Silicon Valley's most distinctive architectural landmark."

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