Samsung debated selling off its manufacturing arm as 3 nm yields remain low and the chip giant's stock price drops

Moore's Law observes that transistor counts tend to double every couple of years. However, if there's massive yield wastage for each successful chip produced, transistor counts matter little. The money and capital required to keep up with these ever-denser transistor counts will be too much. It looks like Samsung is in this spot right now with its 3 nm process node.

As Business Korea (via TechPowerUp) notes, a July report published by Samsung Securities suggested spinning off Samsung's Foundry...