SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won again expressed his commitment to acquire Toshiba’s NAND flash memory unit, a bid that will further bolster the global presence of SK’s memory affiliate, SK Hynix. “There are a number of ways that we can cooperate with Toshiba, through actions that will benefit SK [...]
SEJONG, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will invest a combined 260 billion won (US$233.1 million) in the system semiconductor sector to develop core technologies and foster experts in the coming four to six years as part of a broader effort to keep up with the fourth industrial revolution, the government said Thursday. The [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s science ministry said Tuesday that it will spend 514.1 billion won (US$447.8 million) this year on developing core nanotechnology know-how to improve the competitiveness of the country’s industrial sector. The 2017 spending plan is roughly on par with the 518.1 billion won earmarked in 2016 and aims [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s information technology (IT) industry depends overwhelmingly on hardware, failing to keep pace with the global trend of focusing on software, a report said Monday. According to the report by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, software companies accounted for 15 percent of the total market [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team from Kookmin University has developed an electronic device for semiconductors that can self-dissolve leaving no residue, a technology that would ultimately make Hollywood spy films come to reality. This transient electronics research was done using nitrocellulose paper, frequently used by magicians as their ‘magic’ flash papers. [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean company said Tuesday it has developed a new fume removal system for semiconductor manufacturing chambers. The Fixed Chamber Exhaust System (FSC), created by Excelsior Co., has been already installed into more than 300 wafer-processing chambers of local factories, according to the firm. It stressed that the [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. came closer last year to catching up with its archrival in the semiconductor industry, Intel Corp., data showed Monday. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 11.6 percent of the chip market in 2015, up 0.9 percentage points from a year earlier, standing as the No. 2 player, [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has commenced the mass production of the industry’s first 10-nanometer level dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, speeding up its dominance in the segment. The South Korean giant said it is producing 8-gigabit DDR4 chips through 10-nanometer-level technology, a breakthrough which came around two [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for more than 40 percent of the global market for NAND flash products in the fourth quarter of 2015, data showed Monday, marking the first time in more than three years to reach the mark. The South Korean tech giant took up 40.2 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. saw its global presence in the semiconductor sector advance on-year in 2015, its business report showed Friday, while the shares in the handset segment continued to lose ground. According to the latest data compiled by the South Korean giant, Samsung took up 45.3 percent of the global dynamic [...]