Samsung announced a Record backlog in Q1 for Samsung's foundry, guiding for double digit quarter on quarter growth in Q2.
Advanced technologies such as 3- and 2-nanometer are under development smoothly. And in particular, yield of our 4-nanometer technology has been stabilized and significantly expanded product offer of Tier 1 customers. Thanks to this improvement in advanced technologies, we achieved our highest-ever order backlog for the first quarter.
In the second quarter, amid a likely gradual recovery in market conditions, the winding down of inventory adjustment at customers and increases in our line utilization should lead sales to rebound and reach double-digit quarter-to-quarter growth after bottoming in the first quarter. In addition, we will strive to keep expanding business in advanced technologies by completing the development of 2-nanometer design infrastructure and preparing for 3D IC-based 4-nanometer technology