SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics parts maker in South Korea, said Monday it will invest about 300 billion won (US$245 million) to expand flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) circuit boards manufacturing capacity at its plant in Busan. This move came after the company decided to invest about 1.3 [...]
AUBURN, Michigan, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and South Korean Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo made a joint visit to the factory of a South Korean semiconductor material producer on Wednesday, highlighting their emphasis on cooperation for supply chain resiliency. The rare trip to the SK Siltron CSS factory in [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under South Korea’s SK Group, said Wednesday it will build a new wafer production plant amid the global semiconductor shortage. The company plans to spend nearly 1.05 trillion won (US$847.8 million) over the next three years to build a plant that can [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its share of the global foundry market in the fourth quarter, slightly narrowing down the gap with the industry’s leader TSMC, a report showed Tuesday. The South Korean chipmaker’s share rose 1.1 percentage points to reach 18.3 percent in the October-December period, according to market [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the smartphone chipset market dropped in the fourth quarter, research showed Thursday, amid efforts to restructure the company’s smartphone portfolio strategy. The South Korean tech giant, which makes Exynos chipsets, accounted for four percent of the global shipments of smartphone application processor (AP) and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers will be affected by export controls that Washington imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but the impact is not likely to be significant, experts said Friday. The U.S. Commerce Department announced new sanctions Thursday that it said “will severely restrict Russia’s access to technologies and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine could disrupt supply of raw materials, potentially exacerbating the ongoing global chip shortage, analysts said Thursday. Russia and Ukraine produce raw materials, such as neon, used in chipmaking processes, raising concerns that the escalating tension could disrupt the supply of key materials. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global DRAM shipments dropped nearly 6 percent in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, a report showed Friday, amid sluggish demand from manufacturers that had hoarded up the key consumer electronics component over continued chip shortages. DRAM shipments during the October-December period were valued at US$25 billion, down [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chipmakers vowed to expand their domestic investment this year to more than a combined 56.7 trillion won (US$47.36 billion) amid heated global competition and supply chain disruptions, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The plan was announced by the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association based on a recent survey [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, is now the main sponsor for the domestic tournament of mega-hit video game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” organized by Krafton Inc. A total of 128 influencers participated in the tournament held last weekend. The world’s largest DRAM producer marketed its Double Data Rate [...]