SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers are making extensive efforts to develop next-generation memory technology in order to overcome the recession and prepare for the upcoming market upturn. Samsung Electronics Co. recently announced its plans to develop and mass-produce a 128-gigabyte DRAM, which will support Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0. This will [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it logged losses for the second consecutive quarter, as a worsening macroeconomic climate dented demand for semiconductors used in PCs and other digital products, and a continued chip glut wiped out profits. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker said in a regulatory filing its [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will make its case heard in a patent suit in the Unites States, after a jury concluded last week the South Korean tech giant infringed several semiconductor patents owned by an American company. “We will review the jury verdict and will make our [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday finalized a ruling in favor of the South Korean antitrust regulator’s record fine of 1 trillion won (US$760.8 million) imposed in 2016 on U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. for unfair business practices. The fine was imposed by the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), which concluded in [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday said it cut memory production in the short term, as its quarterly profit plunged significantly amid the chip downturn, in a sharp departure from its previous position that it would not artificially reduce output. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker earlier in [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has extended a multiyear agreement with AMD Inc. to use the U.S. chip firm’s latest graphics solutions to upgrade the Samsung Exynos mobile processor and boost mobile gaming experiences. The partnership will help bring “console-level graphics quality and optimized power consumption to more [...]
DAEJEON, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) has revealed that it will be establishing a Semiconductor Examination Task Force that will be dedicated to reviewing patents related to chip technology. The patent office and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Tuesday that the amendment to the former’s organizational [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the announcement of preliminary first-quarter earnings results scheduled to be released on Friday, Samsung Electronics Co. is under close watch to see whether its stance on production cutbacks will change. Previously, the world’s largest memory chip maker dismissed the possibility of artificial production cuts. But there are [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor industry is complaining over the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act for requiring companies to submit information about production yield, which is regarded as sensitive and confidential data within the industry. Earlier this week, the U.S. Commerce Department released new requirements for chipmakers seeking federal grants for [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. is not sure yet whether to apply for U.S. government grants under the Chips Act, the chipmaker’s top executive said Wednesday, calling the process too complicated. While the application is under serious consideration, “we found the process too demanding,” Park Jung-ho, vice chair and co-CEO of [...]