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 [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. suspended a factory expansion plan as global economic uncertainty is growing with red-hot inflation squeezing consumers’ buying power for electronic devices, sources said Tuesday. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker decided to hold off a capacity addition plan at its Cheongju campus during a board meeting [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech titan Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has developed a new graphics dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip with a faster speed and improved power efficiency. The 24-gigabit Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) adopts third-generation, 10-nanometer technology and boasts a data processing speed that is over [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip maker, saw its DRAM sales fall in the first three months of the year for a second quarter on weaker prices and other negatives, but the company retained its top spot in the global market, data showed Tuesday. Samsung’s DRAM revenue [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Thursday that it will launch a program with its chipmaking affiliate SK hynix Inc. to share their practical knowledge and know-how in the areas of semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) with local universities. The two companies will establish an online [...]