SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Police authorities have apprehended Korean and Chinese nationals who accepted large sums of money in exchange for providing Chinese companies with information on advanced technology. An international criminal investigation team at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that a 57-year-old individual referred to only as Ryu was arrested [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it will build a new semiconductor fabrication (FAB) plant at its headquarters in Icheon, southeast of Seoul, seeking to cope with the rising demand for memory chips around the globe. South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker said the construction will begin later this year, which [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it will join forces with three of its subcontractors to carry out joint research and development projects as part of its efforts to seek shared growth. The chipmaker said it will provide “comprehensive technological support” to MiCo Ltd., UBmaterials Inc. and TEMC for the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed a new mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) solution optimized for the fifth-generation (5G) network and artificial intelligence (AI) features of smartphones. The South Korean tech giant said it finished the development of the 10nm-class 8Gb LPDDR5 DRAM in April, boasting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display Co. said Tuesday it won approval to establish a joint venture to open up an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel plant in China, helping the company to speed up its business portfolio shift. The company said the Chinese government approved the joint venture to build the OLED [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., said Tuesday it will establish a joint venture in China to build a new 200 mm wafer analog foundry production line. The chipmaker said its wholly owned subsidiary SK hynix System IC Inc. will build a new production line in the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers are expected to pay large bonuses to their workers this month amid the prolonged boom in the global semiconductor market, corporate sources said Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co. told its workers that the company will provide target-achievement incentives, handed out every six months, this week. The amount [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will continue to lead in the global memory chip industry and China will have limited impact, at least over the next couple of years, Moody’s Investors Service said Saturday. As the world’s largest consumer of semiconductors, China has made a heavy investment in the sector in order [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Small and medium-sized parts makers of memory chips and displays will be able to test their products in assembly lines of large companies that can improve their overall competitiveness, the industry ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a meeting with leading semiconductor and display [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry minister called on China to fairly conduct an antitrust probe into two Korean chipmakers as regulators are reportedly looking into their alleged price fixing, his office said Tuesday. Paik Un-gyu, South Korean minister of trade, industry and energy, made the request during a meeting with China’s [...]