Samsung Austin, Now Officially Killing It

After a week of crumbling stock and mergers and American Airlines stepping from behind the curtain, it's time for a pick me up. Samsung's Northeast Austin complex, which is responsible for the production of silicon microchips, looks on target to set a company record. Their system chips for mobile devices are in high demand as the race to make the first phone to pass the turing test heats up. Their main customer? Yet another big tech company in the area, Apple.

Apple and Samsung have had their quibbles (both companies accusing the other of violating intellectual property), sure, but that doesn't keep them from mutual back scratching apparently.

This huge resurgence in production comes from a restructuring in 2009 when the company closed an older chip factory (to turn into a support site) and began expanding in the Northeast. They are now set to make 40,000 silicon wafers every month. Looks like it paid off. Read more at the Statesman.