This is really not good if as a consumer you are looking for competition in the semiconductor fab space. Not that I expect any concern about consumers from Samsung or Intel (or the clients of their fabs), but less players in a market is always a bad thing. Even if all we get are the scraps (in context of the price benefits of a hypothetical competitive environment in semiconductor fabs).
That being said, this might be mostly speculation from the Korean media.
This is really not good if as a consumer you are looking for competition in the semiconductor fab space. Not that I expect any concern about consumers from Samsung or Intel (or the clients of their fabs), but less players in a market is always a bad thing. Even if all we get are the scraps (in context of the price benefits of a hypothetical competitive environment in semiconductor fabs).
That being said, this might be mostly speculation from the Korean media.