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 [...]
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 [...]