CHEONGJU, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. on Thursday launched a new production line for NAND flash products under an estimated 20 trillion won (US$17.7 billion) project. The company said the new M15 line in Cheongju, located 140 kilometers south of Seoul, covers 60,000 square meters and will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Thursday attended a ceremony marking the construction of new assembly lines of SK hynix, the world’s third-largest chipmaker, underscoring his policies for job creation and innovation-powered growth. “The government and I will not hold back our support for companies that invest, make jobs and contribute to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) –Choi Geon-wu, a 39-year-old SK Hynix employee, will not be able to visit his family over the Chuseok holidays because of the nature of his work, ensuring the safety of an industrial complex that produces semiconductors. Choi works as a firefighter at SK Hynix’s Cheongju factory, and is the first [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is said to be set on building a general hospital in Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu Province, home to a factory operated by the South Korean semiconductor giant. According to industry insiders, SK hynix CEO and Vice Chairman Park Sung-wook recently [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — White-collar employees and engineers at SK hynix Inc. on Thursday announced the launch of a new labor union, calling for the management to adopt a transparent evaluation system for workers. The SK hynix division of the Korean Chemical & Textile & Food Workers’ Union said it has officially opened [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — China remained dependent on South Korea in 2017 for more than half of its memory chip demand, despite Beijing’s latest efforts to foster its chipmakers on a big scale, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Korea International Trade Association and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean manufacturers of car batteries are anticipated to benefit from Beijing’s latest move to cut subsidies provided to Chinese companies, industry watchers said Monday. Chinese-based electric car battery maker OptimumNano Energy recently announced that it will suspend its production line for six months citing financial problems. BYD, China’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — China accounted for more than 30 percent of Samsung Electronics Co.’s overall sales over the January-June period, industry data showed Monday, emerging as the company’s largest market and outpacing the American continents for the first time. The South Korean tech giant, which posted sales of 83.9 trillion won (US$74.6 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to assist startups in the area of system-on-chip (SoC), the government has come up with a support system to help develop what is still a nascent field in South Korea. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy revealed the launch of a “support center for SoC” that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea vowed Monday to invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.34 billion) over the next 10 years to maintain its global competitiveness as the country’s industry minister visited key semiconductor production lines of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. “In order to have South Korea maintain its reputation as [...]