SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said Friday his company stopped doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., following U.S. chip sanctions against China in 2020 and has not supplied semiconductors to the Chinese smartphone maker. Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will invest US$1 million in Texas A&M University’s education and recruiting programs meant to nurture talent in the semiconductor sector. The South Korean chip giant signed the partnership with the engineering school last week in an effort to secure talent for its semiconductor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SKC Co., a South Korean manufacturer of secondary battery parts and advanced materials, said Monday it is acquiring a stake in a U.S. semiconductor packaging startup as it accelerates the drive for chip post-processing. The investment in Chipletz, an Austin-based fabless company, will give SKC an approximately 12 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On Thursday, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced its plans to hire 39 patent reviewers specializing in semiconductors as part of its efforts to prevent overseas technology leaks in the semiconductor field as well as a loss of skilled employees. This marks the second open recruitment following the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it began an internal investigation into how its memory chips ended up in a new smartphone made by Huawei Technologies Co. Bloomberg News previously reported that the South Korean chipmaker’s DRAM — LPDDR5 — and NAND Flash memory are used in the Chinese tech [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix announced on Wednesday the remarkable success of its “New Code of Conduct” video series, which garnered an impressive 15.18 million views in just over a month on YouTube. Previously, the company had introduced short-form ESG campaign content titled “We Do Green Technology” and the captivating “TOP 6 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip industry, heavily dependent on China for production and exports, faces a dilemma due to the United States government’s policy of promoting sanctions against Beijing, a report showed Thursday. The global chip supply network is projected to undergo reorganization between 2025 and 2030, aligning with the anticipated [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. strives to attain win-win growth by offering consulting support to subcontractors in fields encompassing materials, components and equipment, with the goal of strengthening the foundation of the domestic semiconductor ecosystem. The tech giant’s professional consultants visit subcontractors to evaluate their operational processes and offer customized solutions. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday released a new PRO Ultimate SD and micro SD cards. This product lineup offers a read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and a write speed of 130 MB/s, setting a new standard in the UHS-1 category. With a sequential read speed of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The industry ministry said Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Samsung Electronics Co., SK hynix Inc. and other chip firms to cooperate on technology development for advanced semiconductor packaging. Under the MOU, the government and chipmakers agreed to work together to secure leading technologies in advanced [...]