SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it will invest heavily in a new advanced semiconductor packaging plant in central South Korea as it moves to strengthen its position in the fast-growing market for high-bandwidth memory, a critical component in artificial intelligence computing. The company plans to spend 19 trillion won ($12.9 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanmi Semiconductor said it will introduce a customer rewards program this year, offering credits equivalent to 2 percent of equipment order values — a first in the global semiconductor equipment industry — as it looks to deepen long-term partnerships and reinforce its competitive edge in the fast-growing market for artificial [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix on Wednesday urged South Korea’s government to loosen fair-trade regulations, arguing that existing ownership rules are ill-suited to the scale and financial demands of investment in the artificial intelligence era. The chipmaker said regulatory flexibility is needed to allow it to set up special purpose companies with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean prosecutors have charged a group of former Samsung Electronics employees with illegally transferring core semiconductor technologies to a Chinese rival, in what authorities described as one of the most serious cases of industrial espionage involving the country’s strategic industries. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc.’s expanded investment plan for its new chip cluster will bolster its responsiveness to soaring global demand for memory chips amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, industry watchers said Tuesday. During a meeting held Sunday with President Lee Jae Myung and leaders of other major conglomerates, SK [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix is positioning itself to expand its presence in next-generation data center technologies, unveiling a new lineup of NAND storage products tailored for artificial intelligence workloads at a major industry gathering in California. Speaking at the 2025 Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, Kim Cheon-sung, head of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. has begun installing production equipment at its new fabrication plant under construction in central South Korea, with the goal of starting operations next year, industry sources said Monday. According to the sources, the South Korean chipmaker has started installing production equipment in the cleanroom of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology is intensifying efforts to recruit South Korean semiconductor engineers, particularly from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, as competition in the fast-growing high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market heats up amid soaring demand driven by artificial intelligence. According to industry sources on October 19, Micron has been contacting [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix is poised to report the highest quarterly operating profit in its history, surpassing 10 trillion won for the first time and becoming only the second South Korean company — after Samsung Electronics — to reach the milestone. According to a survey of brokerage forecasts compiled by Yonhap Infomax [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. returned to the top spot in the global market for memory chips in the third quarter, data showed Tuesday, after losing the position to SK hynix Inc. in the previous quarter. The combined sales of memory chips by Samsung, including dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and [...]