SEJONG, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor export landscape has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, with reliance on China decreasing and exports to countries like Taiwan, the United States, and Vietnam increasing. Experts attribute the shift to global market dynamics driven by the U.S.-China semiconductor rivalry, the surge in demand for [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it will showcase its cutting-edge artificial intelligence memory technologies at the upcoming CES 2025, presenting its vision as a comprehensive AI memory provider. The chipmaker, which currently leads the high bandwidth memory (HBM) industry, will set up a joint exhibition booth with SK Group [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a groundbreaking amorphous semimetal material with properties distinct from traditional metals, paving the way for advancements in next-generation semiconductor technology. Researchers at Ajou University, led by Professor Oil Kwon of the Department of Intelligent Semiconductor Engineering and Electronics Engineering, announced on January 3 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled its strategic priorities for the new year, emphasizing aggressive innovation to lead in an artificial intelligence-driven future. In a joint New Year’s message, co-CEOs and Vice Chairmen Han Jong-hee and Jun Young-hyun shared their visions for the company, focusing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. CEO Kwak Noh-jung said Thursday the company aims to achieve another quantum leap in artificial intelligence chip technology in 2025, continuing what he described as SK hynix’s “Renaissance.” “It is time to move beyond the achievements of the past year in every aspect,” Kwak said in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – As global competition in advanced industries intensifies, more than half of South Korean companies in cutting-edge sectors, including biotechnology, batteries, and semiconductors, view the country’s regulatory environment as excessively stringent compared to international competitors. A survey conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) among 433 companies [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government designated a semiconductor cluster in Yongin, located on the southern outskirts of Seoul, as a national industrial complex, aiming to create one of the country’s biggest chip manufacturing hubs by 2030, the land ministry said Thursday. According to the ministry, the plan for the Yongin [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The projected fourth-quarter earnings for South Korea’s semiconductor leaders, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, have been revised downward as prolonged economic uncertainty weighs on IT demand. A polarized market driven by robust growth in artificial intelligence (AI) chips contrasts sharply with declining legacy semiconductor demand, creating headwinds for the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean industry and academia have proposed creating a “KSMC” (Korea Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), modeled after Taiwan’s TSMC, to address challenges facing the nation’s semiconductor industry. The plan, revealed at a seminar held by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK) on December 18, aims to build a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Kioxia Holdings, Japan’s leading NAND flash memory producer and formerly Toshiba Memory, made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market on December 18, drawing attention from the global semiconductor industry. The IPO raises questions about shifts in the NAND market, currently dominated by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, [...]