SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Thursday it is considering doubling its foundry capacity with options, including domestic facility expansion and merger and acquisition deals. Park Jung-ho, co-CEO and vice chairman at SK hynix, made the remarks during a government event for the country’s semiconductor vision, under [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. announced Thursday that it will invest a total of 171 trillion won (US$151 billion) in the logic chip and foundry sectors by 2030 as the tech giant eyes to expand its leadership beyond the memory business. The latest investment plan expands its semiconductor vision announced in [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it plans to provide massive tax incentives and state subsidies to chipmakers to encourage them to spend a combined 510 trillion won (US$453 billion) by 2030, in line with its vision to become a global powerhouse in both memory and non-memory chips. Under the plan [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the global DRAM market declined slightly in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, though it maintained the dominant status amid bullish demand for memory. The South Korean tech giant posted a 42 percent share of the global DRAM flash market [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed a new DRAM memory technology based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard that can upgrade the performances of data centers. Samsung unveiled the industry’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM memory module that supports the advanced CXL interface. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has developed an advanced chip packaging technology for high-performance applications as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its leadership in semiconductor solutions. The world’s largest memory chip maker said its next-generation 2.5D packaging technology, Interposer-Cube4 (I-Cube4), is expected to be widely [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to become the world’s top semiconductor vendor in the second quarter of the year beating its U.S. rival Intel Corp., a report showed Thursday, on the back of strong memory demand. The South Korean tech giant was projected to log US$18.5 billion in semiconductor [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to lose its share in the smartphone chipset market this year, a report showed Tuesday, as Taiwanese and U.S. rivals are to expand their presence with a rise in the 5G device sector. Samsung was estimated to take an 8 percent share in the [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Memory chip prices are rising sharply amid a global semiconductor shortage, industry data showed Friday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. The contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM, which is widely used in personal computers, reached US$3.80 for this month, up 26.67 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that a monthlong shutdown at its U.S. semiconductor plant cost it more than 300 billion won (US$270 million) in losses, although the facility is now fully normalized. “There was a wafer production disruption due to the stopping and recovering of the fab,” Han Seung-hoon, [...]