SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, on Monday denied a recent media report that it has been pressured by the South Korean government to approve the merger between Japanese Kioxia Corp. and U.S.-based Western Digital (WD) Corp. According to the report last month, the Japanese NAND flash [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed the fifth generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips with 12 layers of DRAM chips, helping it lead the booming market for advanced chips. With the industry’s largest capacity of 36 gigabytes (GB), Samsung Electronics said it plans to mass-produce the product [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Semiconductor firms worldwide are engaged in fierce competition to secure a leading position in cutting-edge foundry process technology, particularly driven by the surging demand in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market. Companies are forming strategic alliances with strong partners to enhance their competitiveness in this rapidly growing sector. Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said Wednesday it will expand its partnership with the British chip design firm Arm to bolster the competitiveness of its foundry business. As part of the collaboration, the South Korean chipmaker’s foundry division will work with Arm to optimize the design [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A breakthrough in semiconductor technology has led to the development of an innovative ‘intelligent sensor’ that operates at high speeds with low power consumption, mimicking the visual neural system of insects. The research team behind the discovery, led by professor Kim Kyung-min from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past three months, large corporate groups in South Korea, each with assets exceeding 5 trillion won, have been active in expanding their presence in advanced industries, acquiring or establishing eight companies in sectors such as semiconductors and secondary batteries. The real estate development and construction sectors also saw [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix announced on February 6 that it has established a pioneering long-term plan in the global semiconductor industry to actively incorporate recycled and renewable materials into its product manufacturing process. The company has set ambitious targets to increase the use of recycled and renewable materials in its products to [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — An American industry group has called on the U.S. government to craft new multilateral chip equipment export controls, claiming the current strict unilateral ones put U.S. firms at a disadvantage over their rivals from South Korea and other countries. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) made the call in their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter operating profit sank 34.4 percent from a year earlier due largely to sluggish semiconductor business but its memory chip segment turned to the black on recovering demand. The world’s largest mobile phone and memory chip maker’s operating profit amounted to 2.82 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea, a significant talent drought in cutting-edge industries has been exacerbated by an increasing number of students flocking to medical schools. Semiconductor industry analysts, in particular, have voiced concern that the shortage of skilled workers is reaching a critical level, endangering the very existence of some companies. The [...]