SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. are expected to see their operating profit drop sharply in the first quarter on sluggish demand following a bumper year, industry sources said Wednesday. Bolstered by a “superboom” in the global semiconductor market, Samsung and SK hynix posted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips for data center servers are expected to drop about 50 percent this year due to inventory problems, a market tracker said Tuesday. In its latest market report, DRAMeXchange predicted that prices of server DRAM chips will plummet more than 20 percent on-quarter [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery makers are lagging behind their rivals in China and Japan in electric vehicle (EV) battery competitiveness, a local think tank said Thursday. Korean car battery companies, such as LG Chem Ltd. and Samsung SDI Co., have witnessed their combined share in the global battery market plunge [...]
GUMI, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With the construction plan for SK hynix Inc.’s 120 trillion won (US$106 billion) cluster for semiconductors to be announced next month, the city of Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province is rushing to come up with a master plan to be selected as the site for the cluster. The Ministry of Economy [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a major South Korean EV battery maker, said Thursday that along with other global firms, it plans to use blockchain technology to trace and validate ethically sourced minerals. In a bid to support human rights and environmental protection, as well as help infuse more transparency into [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Engineering and Construction Co. has recently received a series of construction orders only a month after signing a contract with Bloom Energy to supply fuel cell facilities in South Korea. SK E&C announced on Tuesday that it had signed contracts with KT Corp. and Korea Midland Power Co. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilders, which emerged as the world’s No. 1 in terms of new orders in 2018 on increased demand for LNG ships, are anticipating solid demand for vessels this year, industry sources said Wednesday. Local shipyards, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., bagged orders to build a total [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies, led by Doosan Infracore Co., logged robust sales in China’s excavator market last year as the world’s No. 2 economy increased spending on infrastructure, industry sources said Tuesday. According to the data provided by Eugine Investment & Securities, Doosan Infracore, South Korea’s No. 1 construction equipment [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The global semiconductor industry is expected to expand 2.6 percent on-year in 2018 on steady demand, despite an end to a super boom in the memory chip segment, a report showed Monday. According to the recent report from market researcher Gartner, sales of the world chip industry are projected [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean electric car battery makers such as LG Chem Ltd. are jacking up their investment to strengthen their standing in the global market, industry sources said Thursday. Late last year, LG Chem, the country’s leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, announced investments totaling 3 trillion won (US$2.67 billion). [...]