SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Siltron Co., a semiconductor material producer under SK Group, said Tuesday it will acquire DuPont’s wafer business as part of efforts to beef up its advanced material business. SK Siltron said its board members approved a plan to purchase DuPont’s silicon carbide (SiC) wafer business for US$450 million. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday introduced a 5G chipset that combines an integrated modem and mobile processors, which can save battery life and space in smartphones. Samsung, the world’s largest chip and smartphone maker, has been working on a mobile processor with a 5G modem built inside, which would [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the global NAND flash market and its revenue increased in the second quarter from a quarter ago thanks to demand recovery in some key products, an industry report said Friday. Samsung’s NAND shipments grew by 30 percent in the April-June period on the back [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to launch an integrated 5G chipset later this year to power upcoming 5G smartphones while decreasing size and power consumption, industry officials said Tuesday. Samsung, the world’s largest chip and smartphone maker, has been working on a mobile processor with a 5G modem built inside, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. raised its share in the global DRAM market in the second quarter thanks to some recovery demand in the server sector, but revenues fell due to slumping prices, a market researcher said Friday. Samsung’s market share in the DRAM market stood at 45.7 percent in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, with plans to establish an industrial complex for semiconductors, is looking into the best practices of companies in the Silicon Valley. Yongin mayor Baek Kun-ki visited the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara in California from July 29 to 31 to discuss [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. on Thursday reported dismal second-quarter earnings on lower memory chip prices, saying it will cut output to respond to challenging market conditions and uncertainties from trade disputes between South Korea and Japan. Net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip maker came to 537 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has begun testing etching gas critical for the production of semiconductors, a source familiar with the issue said Wednesday, as South Korea is struggling to cope with Japan’s export restrictions. Since July 4, Japan tightened regulations on exports to South Korea of resist, etching gas and [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong has convened a meeting with top executives to discuss countermeasures against Japan’s export restrictions of key materials and possibilities of expanding the measures to other areas, company officials said Sunday. On Saturday, Lee met with Kim Ki-nam, head of the company’s device solution [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s move to restrict tech material exports is an elaborate scheme to pressure South Korea’s key industry amid a bilateral diplomatic row, but the ripples could spread to both sides if the measures are broadly applied and last for a long time, industry watchers said Tuesday. The Japanese government [...]