SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is accelerating efforts to cultivate the artificial intelligence (AI) chip area amid stiffer global competition in generative AI resulting from ChatGPT fever. It’s estimated that the operating costs of ChatGPT, which uses about 10,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), are astronomical. Against this backdrop, AI chip development [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry ministry said Thursday it agreed with Dutch semiconductor equipment supplier ASM to boost cooperation for the firm’s planned investment of US$100 million to build a production factory and a research and development center in South Korea. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a deficit in the fourth quarter due to the global chip market’s slowdown amid weak demand and oversupply. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker logged an operating loss of 1.7 trillion won (US$1.37 billion) for the three months ending in December, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor industry is establishing a system to allow high-caliber engineers to continue to work even after retirement age as part of efforts to cope with talent leaks. SK hynix Inc. recently created a “master” position, which is the highest career level among field workers at semiconductor production [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Global semiconductor revenue grew only around 1 percent on-year last year, a recent report showed Thursday, with the memory chip sector suffering the most. According to tech research firm Gartner, worldwide chip revenue is estimated to have risen 1.1 percent to US$601.7 billion in 2022, a significant drop from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The construction of a new semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, was going smoothly and will be completed within this year as scheduled, Samsung Electronics chief executive has said. “The construction in Taylor is on track,” Kyung Kye-hyun, co-CEO at Samsung who is in charge of the tech giant’s chip [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., a major South Korean chipmaker, said Wednesday it has raised US$1 billion by selling a so-called sustainability-linked bond (SLB). An SLB is a type of bond for which the interest rates can vary depending on whether the issuer achieves predefined environmental, social, and governance management objectives. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. chipmaker Broadcom Inc. offered 20 billion won (US$15.8 million) worth of programs to address concerns about its alleged violation of competition law, South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has been looking into allegations that Broadcom violated local laws by pressing Samsung Electronics Co. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its fourth-quarter operating profit likely plunged 69 percent from a year earlier due to sliding memory chip prices as an economic slowdown pummeled demand for IT gadgets and servers. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker estimated its October-December operating profit at 4.3 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will seek to expand tax incentives on strategic industries such as chips amid the heightening competition in the global market, the finance ministry said Tuesday. Under the proposed tax code revision, the government will apply a higher tax credit rate of 15 percent on facility investment in [...]