-- Samsung Electronics Co. is looking to invest more than $10 billion to build a new chip-making plant in the U.S., Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources.

-- The South Korean memory chip and smartphone maker is in talks to locate a site in Austin, Texas, and the facility is expected to be capable of making chips as advanced as 3 nanometers in the future, Bloomberg reports.

-- The firm preliminarily aims to begin construction this year, install major equipment from 2022, and start operations as early as 2023, according to Bloomberg.

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