Samsung's domestic chip manufacturing gets disrupted briefly by a labor protest

We still don't know much about how the situation was handled or whether or not it was even amicably resolved, but Reuters reports that on April 23 and April 24, during the night shift from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., many workers in the Samsung factory complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped work in order to protest. For reference, like pretty much every foundry out there, this facility works 24/7 on three shifts.

Details, as we said, are scarce, but according to the workers' union, the attending workers demanded higher wages. While we don't know whether those demands were met or not, Reuters does report that chipset production and memory production at the facility dropped by 58% and 18%, respectively. While that doesn't seem like much, even small interruptions in chip manufacturing can throw off orders and deliveries in potentially major ways since those operations have extremely tight schedules and tolerances. Apparently, the protests were supposed to be longer, too, so here's hoping everything was resolved and this won't have any effect on chip supply.

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