Samsung began cleanroom operations and equipment installation at Building 1 of its Taylor, Texas, semiconductor factory.

Samsung’s Building 1 at Taylor, Texas, had entered cleanroom operations and equipment installation, according to the supplied recap. These are factory-preparation milestones; the source does not state that commercial wafer production has begun there.

The Taylor update appeared alongside Samsung’s forecast that company capital expenditure would rise 60% to KRW 84.4 trillion in 2026. That is a company-level spending forecast, not a budget attributed entirely to Taylor or Building 1.

Samsung was also evaluating further investment in new fabrication facilities, including Taylor, and studying additional expansion in South Korea and the United States. Those evaluations are distinct from approved incremental spending, and the source supplies no Taylor-specific production capacity, process-node schedule, or commercial ramp date.