SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chip giant SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it is set to receive up to US$450 in grants from the U.S. government for its investment to build a production base for advanced semiconductor packaging in Indiana. In April, the company announced a plan to invest $3.87 billion to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Tuesday it has started mass production of the industry’s thinnest mobile DRAM, LPDDR5X DRAM, tailored to on-device artificial intelligence. The new 12-nanometer (nm)-class 12 gigabyte (GB) and 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM packages are only 0.65 mm high, making them the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of memory chips, said Monday it will focus on developing advanced packaging technologies for next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, aiming to solidify its leadership position in the booming artificial intelligence (AI) chip market. HBM is a high-performance DRAM in high demand, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday sales of high-performance high bandwidth memory (HBM) products soared more than 50 percent in the second quarter from three months earlier, driven by a boom in generative artificial intelligence. “The memory market continued to be strong in the second quarter, fueled by strong demand [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said Tuesday it plans to begin full-fledged production of its next-generation GDDR7 graphics memory chip in the third quarter. The company said the GDDR7 boasts industry-leading qualities, with an operating speed of 32 gigabits per second, a 60 percent improvement [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In a strategic move to secure a leading position in the next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor market, Samsung Electronics is ramping up investments in AI chip companies. Industry sources reported on July 22 that the Samsung Catalyst Fund (SCF), a venture capital fund that operates under the Samsung Semiconductor Innovation [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chip maker, has announced a significant increase in performance bonuses for its semiconductor division, signaling a recovery in the chip market after a challenging year. Employees in the company’s Device Solutions (DS) division, which oversees semiconductor operations, will receive bonuses of up to 75% [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has newly set up a unit dedicated to developing high bandwidth memory (HBM) in a bid to regain the leadership in the artificial intelligence semiconductor market, industry sources said Thursday. The new HBM development team, part of an organizational overhaul of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Song Jai-hyuk, Chief Technology Officer of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions Division and president of Samsung’s Semiconductor Research Center, expressed optimism about the company’s future in the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry. Speaking at the “Nano Korea 2024″ conference in Goyang on July 3, Song delivered a keynote address titled “Semiconductor Innovation [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has announced a breakthrough in wearable technology with the introduction of the industry’s first 3-nanometer processor designed for smartwatches. The new chip is expected to power the upcoming Galaxy Watch 7, marking a significant leap in performance and efficiency for wearable devices. On July 3, Samsung revealed the [...]