SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it aims to select a site for a semiconductor packaging plant in the United States as early as in the first quarter of next year. Earlier in the day, Reuters reported that the world’s second-largest memory chip maker aims to invest billions of dollars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM prices went south for the second straight month in August amid flagging demand, data showed Friday, boding ill for the chip industry down the road. The average contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAMs came to US$2.91 on the spot market Thursday, down 11 percent from $3.27 a month [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it has developed the NAND flash with the industry’s highest vertical layers that enable improved productivity and fast data transfer. The world’s second largest memory chip maker said its 238-layer 4D NAND flash is the “most layered and smallest” in size, during the Flash [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Tuesday it has wrapped up a 576 billion-won (US$492 million) acquisition of local chip contract manufacturer Key Foundry. The company said it has recently completed the official acquisition process of the 8-inch wafer foundry manufacturer from Magnus Investment Partners LLC, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Geocentric Co., a chemical unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said Monday the construction began for the joint factory with Japan’s Tokuyama Corp. to produce a high-purity cleaning agent for semiconductors. SK Geocentric CEO Na Kyung-soo, Hiroshi Yokota, president of Tokuyama, and other officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it logged record quarterly sales and the best second-quarter operating profits in four years, driven by the sales of NAND flash and positive currency effects. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker reported its second-quarter net income of 2.87 trillion won (US$2.2 billion), up 44.7 [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday marked the first shipment of 3-nanometer semiconductors at a ceremony, a key milestone in the race to build the most advanced and efficient chips to date. The next-generation 3nm chips are built on Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology, which Samsung said will eventually allow an area [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. floated an idea of investing nearly US$200 billion to build 11 more chip plants in the United States over the next two decades, documents filed with the state of Texas showed Friday. The proposed investment is described in South Korean tech giant’s applications filed with the [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will offer more tax incentives and financial support to chipmakers and nurture 150,000 experts in the field in an effort to encourage the firms to push ahead with their investment plans without a hitch, the industry ministry said Thursday. Major tech companies, including Samsung Electronics Co. and [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to nurture about 150,000 semiconductor talents over the next 10 years to help keep up its competitive edge in chipmaking and tackle manpower shortages facing domestic chipmakers, Education Minister Park Soon-ae said Tuesday. The plan came as the government is making a renewed push to support [...]