SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. on Tuesday submitted information on their chip businesses to the United States but withheld some key data considered trade secrets in an apparent delicate balancing act. The two South Korean chipmakers made the filings about two months after the U.S. Department of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The global DRAM market for 2022 is expected to log similar yearly sales on solid demand despite falling prices, a recent report has said. Market researcher TrendForce said in its latest report released Thursday DRAM sales are expected to grow 0.3 percent to reach US$91.54 billion next year. DRAM [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top two chipmakers — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — are expected to submit information on their chip businesses to the U.S. government by the Nov. 8 deadline, industry sources said Wednesday. In late September, the U.S. Department of Commerce asked major chip companies and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Friday it signed a deal to buy a local chip contract manufacturer for 575.68 billion won (US$492 million), as part of efforts to enhance its presence in the non-memory sector. SK hynix said the acquisition of Key Foundry, the 8-inch wafer [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, reported strong third-quarter earnings Tuesday on the back of solid memory chip demand for severs and smartphones, and rising prices. Net profit for the three months that ended Sept. 30 leaped by 205.7 percent from a year earlier to 3.31 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Tuesday it began mass production of the industry’s smallest 14-nanometer DRAM using extreme ultraviolet lithography technology as part of efforts to consolidate its leadership in the memory industry. The company already shipped 1 million units of 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in SK hynix Inc. plunged on concerns over a slowdown in the memory market, analysts here said Friday, as they lowered the target price for South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker. SK hynix closed at 94,000 won (US$78) on the Seoul bourse after a 1.78 percent decline, so far [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled an open source-based software development kit to expand the Compute Express Link (CXL) memory ecosystem. CXL is an open industry-standard interconnect based on the PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 interface that enables high-speed, low latency communication between the host processor and devices, such as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled its technology road map for the foundry business as the company vowed to improve its capacity and advanced manufacturing solutions in the contract chipmaking sector. At the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021, which was held online under the theme of “Adding one more dimension,” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained in second place in the global smartphone image sensor market in the first half of the year, a report showed Tuesday, although its share declined from a year earlier. Samsung captured a 25 percent revenue share in the first six months of the year, down [...]