Samsung has confirmed recently that they will be making ASIC chips for mining different cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, ether and some others as well
There isn't much info on it because Samsung hasn't said anything but if you would like to read the article i will link it below
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Article: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/samsung-confirms-asic-chips/