SUWON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) –A former Chinese employee of SK Hynix has been arrested and indicted on charges of illegally transferring the company’s core technology for reducing semiconductor defects to Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, prosecutors said on May 28. The 30-year-old woman, identified only by her last name A, worked at SK Hynix’s [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States, China and countries around the world are waging an intense battle to gain supremacy in the semiconductor industry, crucial for cutting-edge technologies. On May 23, in a meeting presided over by President Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s government unveiled a comprehensive 26 trillion won support package for [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said Friday the testing process of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips is proceeding smoothly in cooperation with its customers. “Samsung Electronics is currently working closely with a number of companies to continuously test the technology and performance,” the company said [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Two companies that supply semiconductors to China have entered Samsung Electronics’ list of five top revenue sources, underscoring the growing importance of the Chinese market for the South Korean tech giant. According to Samsung’s quarterly report disclosed on May 16, its five biggest revenue drivers in the first quarter were [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Edwards, a leading British semiconductor equipment company, has inaugurated a new facility in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, dedicated to producing crucial components for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography processes. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that Deputy Minister for Trade and Investment Choi Woo-seok attended the opening ceremony held [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to set up a package worth over 10 trillion won (US$7.28 billion) to support the chip industry as part of efforts to boost the competitiveness of the critical industry and to prop up economic growth, the finance ministry has said. The planned assistance program of [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has developed a next-generation mobile NAND solution designed for on-device artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The new Zoned UFS (ZUFS) 4.0 is a NAND flash memory chip that improves efficiency of data management, and optimizes data transfer between operating system and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday its operating profit shot up more than tenfold in the first quarter, with its chip business shifting to the black for the first time in five quarters. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of smartphones and memory chips, said its operating profit reached 6.6 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it swung to a profit in the first quarter of this year on the back of rising global demand for premium memory chip products used for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. The world’s second-largest memory chipmaker posted an operating profit of 2.88 trillion won (US$2.09 [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it will ramp up production capacity of next-generation DRAMs in response to rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Earlier in the day, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker decided in a board meeting to invest 5.3 trillion won (US$3.85 billion) to convert a [...]