An Expert in Packaging Technology

Samsung Electronics has recently hired a semiconductor packaging expert from Apple.

Samsung Electronics has recently hired a semiconductor expert from Apple.

The company established the Packaging Solution Center in the Device Solution America (DSA) in July and appointed Kim Woo-pyeong from Apple as its director. After studying at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Kim worked for Texas Instruments and Qualcomm before working for Apple for about nine years from 2014.

Experts say that the appointment is somewhat unusual considering a special relationship between Samsung and Apple, as the two cooperate and compete with each other at the same time. It is not easy to find similar cases except Samsung's recruitment in 2012 of Luc Julia, who oversaw Siri development at Apple for nearly a year.

Packaging is one of the fields where Samsung Electronics is focusing on technology development. As the difficulty of developing ultra-micro fabrication processes increases, chipmakers are moving toward enhancing packaging technology as a way to surmount physical limitations.

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