SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, said Tuesday that it will buy the NAND business of U.S. semiconductor giant Intel Corp. in a deal worth 10.3 trillion won (US$9 billion) to help the company vault to become the world’s second-largest NAND flash chipmaker. SK hynix said it will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. dominated the global market for smartphone memory chips in the first half of the year, a report showed Thursday. In terms of revenue, Samsung maintained its top position in the smartphone memory market with a 49 percent share in the first six months of the year, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea targets to develop up to 50 types of artificial intelligence-focused system semiconductors by 2030, the ICT ministry said Monday, as the country strives to take a leading position in the semiconductor sector beyond its traditional foothold in memory chips. AI chips refer to high performance and power [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has launched the world’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM, as South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker strives to expand its presence with the next-generation memory product. SK hynix’s 16 Gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM, which was developed in 2018 using 1Ynm process technology, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, is expected to report mediocre third-quarter earnings in the face of memory price decline, analysts here said Sunday. SK hynix was projected to log 7.9 trillion won (US$6.7 billion) in sales in the July-September period, up 15.5 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chipmakers are expected to benefit from the United States’ export restrictions against China’s leading foundry firm, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), analysts here said Saturday, as the ban could give them more opportunities to secure orders. The U.S. Commerce Department recently added SMIC to its blacklist, saying [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, said Tuesday its artificial intelligence (AI) solutions unit has been established, as the company aims to utilize human-like algorithms in semiconductor manufacturing. Gauss Labs Inc. will open its office here later this month after setting up its headquarters in Silicon Valley, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Precision Machinery Co., a major assembly automation equipment maker in South Korea, said Monday it has developed core semiconductor packaging equipment in collaboration with the country’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. Hanwha Precision and SK hynix worked together to commercialize the die bonder, a machine that attaches [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices for server DRAM chips are expected to further decline in the fourth quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, boding ill for South Korean chipmakers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Market researcher TrendForce recently revised its server DRAM prices forecast for the last three months of 2020, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday introduced four new image sensors with the industry’s smallest pixel size as the South Korean tech firm expands its ultra-high-resolution offerings to smartphones. Samsung’s four ISOCELL image sensors — 108-megapixel (Mp) HM2, 64Mp GW3, 48Mp GM5 and 32Mp JD1 — boast 0.7-micrometer pixel technology [...]