SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip industry is keeping close tabs on the status of exemptions from Washington’s export control measures designed to limit China’s access to advanced chip technologies following a report that such exemptions could be extended. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Alan Estevez, under secretary of commerce [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday it has decided to reject U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Inc.’s proposal to voluntarily correct its unfair business practices with 20 billion won (US$15.5 million), ruling in favor of Samsung Electronics Co. Broadcom made the proposal in January as the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A former senior executive of Samsung Electronics Co. has been arrested and indicted for stealing the chip giant’s trade secrets to build a copycat chip plant in China, prosecutors said Monday. The 65-year-old former executive, whose name is withheld, was charged with violating the industrial technology protection and unfair [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will supply its latest automotive processor to Hyundai Motor Co. for the carmaker’s next-generation in-vehicle infotainment systems. Samsung said the processor, the Exynos Auto V920, will be used in the carmaker’s infotainment system, set to roll out by 2025, in the first collaboration [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) —SK hynix, a renowned semiconductor company, announced the recent release of Beetle X31 (X31), a portable solid-state drive (SSD) designed for general consumer use. The X31 marks SK hynix’s entry into the external SSD market, boasting impressive sequential read speeds of up to 1,500MB/s and sequential write speeds of 1,000MB/s. [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Global DRAM demand is expected to overtake supply as early as July, a recent industry report showed Thursday, in a change that would lessen pressure on semiconductor companies reeling from a chip downturn. Market research firm TrendForce expected in its May report global DRAM demand this year to top [...]
WASHINGTON, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has asked the United States to review the latter’s proposed limit on the expansion of production by South Korean semiconductor manufacturers in China, a U.S. public notice showed Tuesday. The request comes about two months after the U.S. Department of Commerce said the U.S. CHIPS and Science [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM will invest US$100 million to build a new production and research and development center in South Korea by 2025, a top executive said Tuesday. The decision underscored ASM’s commitment to expanding business in South Korea, the second largest semiconductor market with 19 percent of [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is accelerating the development of its ‘digital twin’ technology to improve efficiency in semiconductor manufacturing. According to industry sources, Samsung’s Device Solution (DS) division, which oversees its chip business, recently appointed Executive Vice President Lee Young-woong as the head of the Digital Twin Task Force. This [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — ASML Holding N.V., a Dutch chip equipment maker, has opened a new global training center for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines near Seoul, the company said Thursday. The 1,445-square-meter center in Yongin, 42 kilometers south of Seoul, is aimed at training technicians on the maintenance and repairs of the [...]