SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, home to chipmaking giants such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., was the world’s third-largest market for semiconductor materials in 2020, a report showed Tuesday, moving down one spot from a year earlier after posting an under-par industry average growth. The country’s chip materials market [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, on Monday unveiled its technology road map for the memory chip industry, highlighting that reliability will be the major requirement for its future growth. SK hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee introduced the company’s vision for the industry at the International Reliability Physics Symposium, [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. was the world’s fifth-largest smartphone application processor (AP) vendor last year, a report showed Friday, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its presence in the mobile microprocessor sector with more sales of its Galaxy devices. Samsung, which makes the Exynos chipsets, represented 9 [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of memory chips, notably NAND flash and DRAM, are likely to increase significantly in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. Contract prices of NAND flash are expected to increase by an average of 3-8 [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to top the semiconductor capital spending this year, a report showed Wednesday, as it tries to catch up with the leading foundry firm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). The South Korean tech giant, the world’s largest memory chip producer, has not provided guidance for [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. may suffer around 400 billion won (US$353 million) in production losses due to a monthlong shutdown of its chip plant in the United States, analysts said Wednesday, amid growing concerns that the production halt could also undermine global smartphone production. Samsung’s plant in Austin, Texas, has [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Tuesday a 12-inch semiconductor wafer test bed was established here in line with the country’s efforts to boost development of homegrown chip technology. Previously, the absence of the test bed had led many local small and medium-sized chip component companies to rely on overseas [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to invest more than 200 billion won (US$176 million) in developing automotive chip-making technology by 2022 in an effort to nurture the next-generation vehicle sector, the finance minister said Wednesday. Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki said the government plans to cooperate with local automakers to find ways [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, said Monday it has begun mass-production of a mobile DRAM that offers the industry’s largest capacity. SK hynix said 18-gigabyte low-power double data rate (LPDDR) 5 is in mass production and that the company supplied its very first products to Asus’ [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. further expanded its dominance in the global DRAM market in the fourth quarter of 2020, a report showed Thursday, with revenue increase. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the NAND flash sector, had a 42.1 percent share of the global DRAM flash market [...]