Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, has recently broken ground to build the largest semiconductor factory in America.

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Much less likely: the possibility that Qualcomm will buy a semiconductor factory, or fab, and begin building its own chips.

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Motorola say the investment will create 700 jobs, safeguard another 650 at a nearby plant, and make Dunfermline their biggest semiconductor factory in Europe.

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The story is told of how, a few years back, the editor of a Shanghainese newspaper celebrated a new semiconductor factory in the city as the biggest in China.

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Hyundai, for example, confirmed that it would suspend construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland and a car factory in Indonesia (both measures that had already been announced), and postponed its founder's dream of building a steel plant.

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