Samsung Electronics is delaying the completion of its Texas chip fab, following a struggle to find customers.

The manufacturing facility in Taylor, Texas, was meant to come online in 2024 but, according to a report from Nikkei Asia, that timeline has now been pushed back to 2026.

The company is apparently in no rush to install chipmaking equipment at the new site, with an unnamed source “close to the situation” telling the news outlet: “The process [of completing the Taylor fab] is delayed because there are no customers. [Samsung] is not in a situation where it can do something, even if it brings equipment in at the moment.”

This is the second time Samsung has delayed construction at its fab in Taylor, Texas – in June 2024, reports emerged claiming the company was halting work in order to upgrade the foundry process at the facility from 4nm to 2nm and allow Samsung to better compete with TSMC.

In response to a request for comment from Nikkei Asia, Samsung said the fab is scheduled to open in 2026 and the project is going smoothly, although it declined to provide a more precise timeline, comment on the status of equipment installation, or the allegations about its struggle to find customers.

Last month, a number of job listings for California-based senior sales positions were posted by the company, with the new recruits presumably set to work under Margaret Han, a former TSMC and Intel executive who was appointed to lead Samsung’s North American chip foundry operations in March of this year.

Also last month, it was further reported that Samsung has postponed the construction of its 1.4nm pilot line at its South Korean Pyeongtaek Plant 2.

Originally slated to begin in Q2 2025, construction has been pushed back until late 2025 or early 2026 to allow the chipmaker to concentrate its efforts on improving the yield and production capacity of its 2nm process nodes, set for mass production at the end of 2025.