SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. retained their combined leading spot in the global semiconductor market in 2018, an industry tracker said Monday. Samsung’s sales of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips came to US$43.75 billion last year, taking up 43.9 percent of the world [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Friday it will move to lift regulations to pave the way for the country’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc.’s to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it plans to request the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has officially expressed interest in creating a semiconductor cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, about 50 kilometers south of Seoul. A special purpose company has submitted a letter of investment intent, for investing in Yongin, to the city’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has found that a 2009 penalty decision by the state antitrust watchdog against U.S. Qualcomm Inc. was not completely lawful, sending the case back to a lower court for reconsideration, court officials said Monday. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined the global chipmaker 273.2 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech companies that make memory chips, smartphones and TVs posted disappointing earnings in the fourth quarter, as the industry as a whole felt the impact of China’s economic slowdown and a memory chip downcycle, analysts said Thursday. Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and handset [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., said Wednesday that the tech giant will focus on nurturing the non-memory chip and foundry business as part of its new growth engine. Lee made the remark during his meeting with Hong Young-pyo, floor leader of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading memory chip makers raked in unprecedented profits in 2018 on strong demand from data centers and smartphones, but they are now bracing for a down cycle caused by a supply glut and slowing global economy, market watchers said Thursday. SK hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. are expected to see their operating profit drop sharply in the first quarter on sluggish demand following a bumper year, industry sources said Wednesday. Bolstered by a “superboom” in the global semiconductor market, Samsung and SK hynix posted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips for data center servers are expected to drop about 50 percent this year due to inventory problems, a market tracker said Tuesday. In its latest market report, DRAMeXchange predicted that prices of server DRAM chips will plummet more than 20 percent on-quarter [...]
GUMI, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With the construction plan for SK hynix Inc.’s 120 trillion won (US$106 billion) cluster for semiconductors to be announced next month, the city of Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province is rushing to come up with a master plan to be selected as the site for the cluster. The Ministry of Economy [...]