SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has begun operation of a new advanced, massive chip manufacturing line in South Korea. The new production line (P3) in Pyeongtaek, the largest chip manufacturing facility ever built to date by Samsung, has started production of state-of-the art NAND flash since July. “The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 memory chip maker, said Tuesday it will start construction of a new 15 trillion-won (US$10.9 billion) semiconductor plant in South Korea next month to prepare for the company’s future growth. The company said it will start construction of the new fabrication plant, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 experts in South Korea consider the local chipmaking industry to be in a crisis due to multiple external risks, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey of 30 experts in the semiconductor sector, taken by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), 76.7 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. were the biggest NAND flash sellers in the world in the second quarter, an industry report showed Thursday. According to Taiwan-based market analyst firm TrendForce, Samsung’s NAND flash sales during the April-June period reached US$5.98 billion, with its global [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s semiconductor industry saw the biggest export growth to China over the past two decades, research showed Sunday. The research by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) showed that semiconductors took up only 3.2 percent of South Korea’s total exports to China in 2000 but jumped [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for its new semiconductor research and development (R&D) complex south of Seoul, in a move to bolster its global leadership in cutting-edge chip technology. The South Korean tech giant plans to invest around 20 trillion won (US$15.06 billion) by 2028 for [...]
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 [...]