SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second largest memory chip maker, is reviewing to acquire British semiconductor company Arm Ltd. with strategic partners, its top executive said Wednesday. “We are reviewing possibly forming a consortium, together with strategic partners, to jointly acquire it,” Park Jung-ho, vice chairman and CEO of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, are forecast to report robust earnings in the first quarter, despite a hike in raw material prices and continued global supply woes, a financial data firm said Tuesday. Samsung is estimated to log 13.89 trillion [...]
DAEJEON, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is positioned in the third spot after the U.S. and China in the area of patent applications for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors, a report from the country’s patent office showed Tuesday. According to an analysis conducted by the Korea Intellectual Property Office along with the Center for [...]
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. [...]