BitcoinVersus.Tech reported in April 2025 that Samsung’s Taylor, Texas semiconductor facility was expected to move into 2nm production in 2026. Samsung’s latest update now puts that forecast close to a real operating milestone.

On October 7, 2026, Samsung Austin Semiconductor said the Taylor fab is expected to be operational by the end of 2026 and will use extreme ultraviolet lithography to produce 2nm chips in the United States. Samsung says its Austin and Taylor campuses contributed $10.9 billion to the Central Texas economy in 2025 and supported 28,746 jobs.

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Samsung’s current Taylor page describes the site as an advanced-node fab and says its wider Central Texas plan involves more than $37 billion of additional investment. Local reporting in April also said the plant had entered its final construction phases and was staffing up ahead of operations.

The follow-up matters because 2nm manufacturing is moving from roadmap language toward physical U.S. capacity. BitcoinVersus.Tech has also tracked Samsung’s AI-memory growth and demand for Samsung HBM4, both of which show how advanced logic and memory capacity are becoming part of the same AI infrastructure buildout.

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