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 [...]
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 [...]