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 [...]
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 [...]