SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The global semiconductor industry is expected to expand 2.6 percent on-year in 2018 on steady demand, despite an end to a super boom in the memory chip segment, a report showed Monday. According to the recent report from market researcher Gartner, sales of the world chip industry are projected [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. has announced new policy to continue employing outstanding engineers past retirement. A number of selected engineers will be able to continue to work without having to retire. Currently, the retirement age at SK hynix is 60. Experts argue that the new measure aims not only to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., on Wednesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new chip production line that is expected to commence operations in October 2020. The M16 production line, located in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will be built on a 53,000-square meter lot. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The local semiconductor industry is waiting for the latest corporate performance results of U.S. rival firm Micron Technology, Inc to get a better idea of where it is headed, officials said Tuesday. Micron is due to announce its profits for the September-November period Wednesday. “The market’s concern grew when [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The CTO of HiSilicon Technologies Co., the semiconductor design company of China’s Huawei Technologies Co., was previously employed as an executive director at Samsung Electronics Co. The industry was shocked when Huawei successfully poached the high-ranking Samsung executive. He was the key figure who had developed Samsung Electronics’ 10-nanometer [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. made a formal apology Friday to all victims of work-related diseases who were employed at the company’s chip and display production lines, settling the long-standing dispute that lasted for more than a decade. Samsung Electronics President and CEO Kim Ki-nam, who heads the tech giant’s crucial [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the two major local players in the semiconductor industry, are set to post record-breaking growth in the third quarter in spite of various domestic and international hurdles. Despite the controversy last year surrounding the price of semiconductor chips, which some experts claimed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday launched a new brand of chips designed specifically for automobiles, reflecting its strategy of penetrating deeper into the industry. The world’s top chipmaker introduced the Exynos Auto brand, which will be used in processors customized for cars. The company also unveiled its ISOCELL Auto [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top energy-chemical business, said Wednesday it will put a bigger focus on its battery business to achieve a 30 percent share of the global car battery market by 2025. In the January-August period, SK Innovation churned out a total of 428.9 megawatt hours (MWh) [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, showed special attachment to SK hynix Inc. as the company held a completion ceremony for the M15 production line at the SK hynix factory in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. Chey bought Hynix Semiconductors Inc. for 3.4 trillion won six years ago, changing the [...]