SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — As competition from Chinese firms intensifies and prices for older memory products plunge, major global semiconductor manufacturers are accelerating a strategic shift: phasing out legacy DRAM production and concentrating on high-end, high-margin memory technologies. According to Taiwanese market research firm TrendForce and local media reports on April 27, Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday its 96 gigabyte double data rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips have passed customer validation, marking a key step toward production readiness. The new product, known as CMM-DDR5, is a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) solution for data center servers. When integrated into server systems, [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As SK hynix accelerates its push to expand high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production, the company is working to stabilize its supply of a critical manufacturing tool — the thermal compression (TC) bonder — by diversifying its vendor base. The move comes amid a global surge in demand for HBM, driven largely [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has visited Taiwan, and met with the chief of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and officials from other semiconductor companies to discuss ways of strengthening cooperation in the semiconductor sector, sources said Thursday. During the meeting held earlier this week, Chey and TSMC CEO [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time in its history, SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to claim the top spot in the global DRAM market, driven by surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI servers. According to data released Tuesday by Counterpoint Research, SK Hynix captured a 36% share of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix announced Friday that it has completed its acquisition of Intel’s NAND memory business, solidifying its strategic push into the enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) market as demand for AI-driven data storage continues to soar. According to a regulatory filing with South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, the transaction was officially [...]
BEIJING, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK hynix Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kwak Noh-jung met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday with other global business leaders. The meeting was held at around 11 a.m. with CEOs from other global companies that participated in the China [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Asset Management announced on March 26 that its KODEX AI Semiconductor ETF has exceeded 100 billion won in net assets, highlighting growing investor interest in semiconductor companies with ties to artificial intelligence. The exchange-traded fund focuses on domestic companies involved in AI semiconductor technologies, including high-bandwidth memory chips [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In a high-stakes battle for dominance in artificial intelligence technology, major semiconductor manufacturers are racing to develop HBM4, the next generation of high-bandwidth memory chips crucial for advanced AI processors. The competition intensified on March 18 when Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, announced at the company’s GTC 2025 developer conference [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Chip giant SK hynix Inc. said Thursday its U.S. sales accounted for over 60 percent of its total revenue last year on rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips from major U.S. tech companies. According to a financial report released by SK hynix, revenues from the United States totaled [...]