Samsung Electronics has postponed taking deliveries of ASML chipmaking equipment for its upcoming factory in Texas as it has yet to win any major customers for the project, three people familiar with the matter said.

Samsung Electronics has postponed ASML chipmaking equipment deliveries for its Texas project due to no major clients, delaying the $17 billion factory's progress. The gap between Samsung and rivals like TSMC widens,

The delay in equipment deliveries is a fresh setback to the Taylor project, which is at the heart of Samsung chairman Jay Y. Lee's ambition to expand beyond its bread-and-butter memory chips into contract chip manufacturing,