SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers are expected to expand their production of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips despite falling market prices in a bid to cope with the rise of Chinese rivals, industry sources said Wednesday. The global contract price for a DDR3 4GB module, the standard in setting the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding of 32.7 billion won will be offered by the government to develop core technology in the bio, metallic material and chemical processing fields. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) announced that it will support new projects together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service’s Forest Research Institute has announced that through a joint project with the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, researchers have developed technology to make a lithium ion battery that can be folded into a paper crane and used three times longer than current batteries. Professor [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech titan Samsung Electronics Co. posted a record share of the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market in the second quarter, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the rising presence of chips in its business portfolio. Samsung’s share of the global DRAM market came to 45.2 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., two major South Korean memory chip makers, have clinched no overseas takeover deals for the semiconductor business this year, industry data showed Tuesday, in contract to their global peers who’ve been strongly engaged in the merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chip giant SK hynix said Tuesday it will spend 46 trillion won (US$38.2 billion) to build three new semiconductor production lines over the next 10 years in an effort to bolster its market position and join government efforts to revitalize the economy. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won unveiled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has begun to mass-produce 256-gigabit (Gb) vertical NAND flash memory chips, making the company the first in the world to have succeeded in manufacturing the storage component in its largest capacity available. The vertical NAND flash, also known as V-NAND, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a semiconductor device using new material that changes itself from a semiconductor to conductor as its temperature changes. The new device lessens power loss and operates much faster. The new semiconductor device created by the research team maintains the characteristics of semiconductors, but [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix said Wednesday it has agreed to end the ongoing legal battle with U.S.-based SanDisk over an alleged technology leak, and instead plans to extend their patent cooperation. Under the agreement, the two will end the legal battle that started in March last year in [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top tech giant, Samsung Electronics, said Wednesday it has started the mass production of what it claims are the industry’s smallest image sensors that boast high-end performance. The company said the new 16-megapixel image sensors for smartphones are based on 1-micrometer-pixel technology, which compares to the previous sensors [...]