Samsung Electronics starts work on sixth chip-making line, to take on bigger rival TSMC

Samsung Electronics starts work on sixth chip-making line, to take on bigger rival TSMC

Samsung flags are set up at the main entrance to the Berlin fair ground before the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 28, 2012. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has begun work on a sixth domestic contract chip production line, the company said on Thursday, to make logic chips for mobile phones and computers as it looks to cut reliance on the volatile memory chip sector.