SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers are looking to score big in the graphics DRAM sector in the second half of the year, industry observers said Wednesday, as demand for such products is expected to rise with the release of new graphics processing units (GPUs) and new gaming consoles. According to DRAMeXchange, [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Tuesday it has joined hands with the country’s leading research university to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the chip manufacturing process. Under the memorandum of understanding with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), SK hynix will provide [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. on Thursday delivered an earnings surprise for the first quarter of the year, apparently aided by increased demand for IT products needed for social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak. The net profit of South Korea’s No. 2 memory chip producer came to 649.1 billion won (US$526 [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a highly efficient artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor that can be used in high-end servers and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Tuesday that a joint research team from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), SK Telecom Co. [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday delivered better-than-expected first-quarter earnings as robust demand for chips apparently offset a slump in smartphone and home appliance sales amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but analysts warned that the company may feel the pinch of the COVID-19 outbreak during the current quarter. The South [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc.’s revenue from its non-memory chip business spiked last year, its business report showed Tuesday, as South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker looks to expand its presence beyond the memory semiconductor industry. SK hynix’s non-memory chip business logged sales of 1.6 trillion won (US$1.3 billion) in 2019, more [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a deal to sell its foundry business and a domestic plant for US$435 million. The assets will be sold to a special purpose company (SPC) set up by two local buyout firms — Alchemist Capital Partners Korea and [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Wednesday it has started shipping the industry’s first DRAM modules made using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. Samsung said it has shipped one million units of 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 (Double Date Rate 4) DRAM modules that were produced with the [...]
SUWON, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects this year’s chip demand to grow despite concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic. During an annual shareholder meeting, Kim Ki-nam, who leads Samsung’s device solutions division, said that “external uncertainties” will continue this year but global [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, said Tuesday it has begun mass-producing the industry’s fastest mobile storage. The 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded universal flash storage (eUFS) 3.1 is in mass production for use in flagship smartphones, according to Samsung. The latest product delivers three times [...]