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 [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has set up makeshift tents for workers in its chip fabrication factory in Wuxi, China, to prevent a potential citywide COVID-19 lockdown from disrupting its production. Eastern cities in China, including Wuxi, have recently reported an increasing number of coronavirus infections, raising fears [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has begun mass production of 3-nanometer semiconductors, stepping up its game in the most advanced chipmaking process node and beating its rival and foundry leader TSMC. The next-generation 3nm chips are built on Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology, which Samsung said will eventually allow area [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics components maker in South Korea, said Thursday it will make an additional investment of 300 billion won (US$230 million) in its flip-chip-ball grid array (FC-BGA) business, aimed at expanding the production of its plants in Busan, Sejong and Vietnam. Prior to this, the [...]