SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has selected the city of Taylor in Texas as the site of its new US$17 billion chip fabrication plant, a move to boost production amid a global chip shortage. The decision came five months after the tech giant announced a plan to build [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee said Monday that the company will respond “wisely” to the U.S.-China trade tension that could cloud the chipmaker’s plan to upgrade its Chinese plant. “The fourth-generation DRAM chips have been produced in South Korea since July and it is still a long way to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., a major South Korean memory chip maker, said Thursday that it will flexibly operate its Chinese plant as its plan to overhaul the facility could be jeopardized amid the escalating tech tussle between the United States and China. “We have nothing to say on the matter. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. boosted its market presence in the global memory market in the third quarter, further consolidating its dominant position in the segment, a report showed Thursday. Samsung, the world’s biggest memory chip maker, took up 44 percent of the DRAM market for the three months ending in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. appears to be moving closer to making a final decision on the site for its new chip fabrication plant in the United States, as global semiconductor companies have engaged in increasingly fierce competition amid a global chip crunch. The South Korean tech giant was found to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest memory chip and mobile phone maker, is inching closer toward the selection of the site for its new chip plant in the United States, industry sources said Friday, as competition is intensifying in the semiconductor industry amid global chip shortages. Lee Jae-yong, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., a major global memory chip supplier, distanced itself from the on-going chip shortages that have snarled production of cars and consumer electronic products around the globe, a report filed with the United States showed Wednesday. “Memory products have not been a source of chip shortages to [...]
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 [...]