SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, has no plan to retrieve its investment in Japanese semiconductor firm Kioxia Holdings Corp., its CEO said Friday, amid growing speculation over consolidation in the NAND industry. In 2017, SK hynix joined a global consortium to invest in Kioxia, then known [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, is in talks with German auto parts giant Robert Bosch GmbH over a long-term supply of automotive memory semiconductors, industry sources said Wednesday. SK hynix, the world’s No. 2 DRAM vendor, is reportedly seeking to supply automotive DRAM chips to Bosch for [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea pledged Thursday to support the power semiconductor industry amid growing demand for energy-efficient chips with stronger durability. Under the goal, the country plans to develop at least five power semiconductor products by 2025, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. South Korea also plans to [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip production at its U.S. plant is approaching normal levels, an official from the company said Tuesday, following a monthlong shutdown caused by a power outage in the region. “Our plant in Austin, Texas, has entered the normal stage of production from last week,” a Samsung [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. will focus on improving profitability of its NAND business following its deal to buy Intel Corp.’s non-volatile memory unit, its chief executive officer said Tuesday. Lee Seok-hee told shareholders that SK hynix is committed to becoming the global leader in the NAND industry with the acquisition [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker Magnachip Semiconductor Corp. has said it will be sold to a Chinese private equity fund for about US$1.4 billion. Magnachip, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), recently announced that it has signed an agreement with Wise Road Capital Ltd. and its partners to sell [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major automotive light-emitting diode (LED) makers saw their revenues increase last year despite an overall market slump amid the pandemic, a report showed Friday. Seoul Semiconductor Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. maintained their status as the world’s fifth- and seventh-largest automotive LED suppliers, respectively, in 2020, [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has developed a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that can improve the performance of 5G networks in collaboration with U.S. chip designer Marvell Technology Ltd. The South Korean tech giant said the new SoC will be used in the company’s network equipment, such as massive [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Thursday it has developed a high-capacity dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) module. The South Korean tech giant said its 512-gigabyte (GB) Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) module is the industry’s first DDR5 product to use a High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the status as the world’s second-largest vendor of mobile image sensors last year, a report showed Wednesday, as the South Korean tech giant strives to catch up to the industry leader Sony Corp. In terms of revenue, Samsung, which produces image sensors under the ISOCELL [...]