SEJONG, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor exports are anticipated to continue to lead the overall recovery in outbound shipments this year amid higher memory chip prices, the industry minister said Thursday. “South Korea’s chip exports experienced a rebound last year despite the global economic slump and the sluggish semiconductor industry, laying the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Global fabrication capacity for 200-millimeter wafers is forecast to jump 14 percent over the next three years, a recent report showed Thursday, as demand for chips used in electric vehicles (EVs), in particular, is sharply rising. “The development of powertrain inverters and charging stations for EVs in particular is [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. and the chip division of Samsung Electronics Co. are expected to post quarterly losses in the second quarter after reporting losses in the previous three months as the chip downturn drags on, market data showed Sunday. Samsung Electronics is projected to report an operating profit of [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s semiconductor industry is complaining over the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act for requiring companies to submit information about production yield, which is regarded as sensitive and confidential data within the industry. Earlier this week, the U.S. Commerce Department released new requirements for chipmakers seeking federal grants for [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — After the U.S. slapped sanctions on a string of Chinese companies, Taiwanese and Japanese chipmakers enjoyed a stronger presence in the Chinese chip market, while South Korean chipmakers’ standing there weakened, the business lobby group said Monday. The Federation of Korean Industriesanalyzed the changes in the market shares of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip and display industries, the backbone of Asia’s No. 4 economy, have remained intact since Tokyo’s export curbs against the Asian neighbor, Seoul’s trade ministry said Sunday. The country’s top four tech giants — Samsung Electronics Co., Samsung Display Co., SK hynix Inc. and LG Display Co. [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 240 billion won (US$204 million) in the next 10 years to develop key semiconductor technologies that can alter the paradigm of the chip industry as a whole, the science ministry said Thursday. The medium-to-long term chip sector growth plan centers around securing know-how in such [...]
BEIJING, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) today announced Kunlun, China’s first cloud-to-edge AI chip, built to accommodate high performance requirements of a wide variety of AI scenarios. The announcement includes training chip “818-300”and inference chip “818-100”. Kunlun can be applied to both cloud and edge scenarios, such as data centers, public clouds [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Just two years since the launch of the first prototype of the Qormino® family, Teledyne e2v has announced the QLS1046-4GB, the next module to join what has become an established line of computing modules. The Qormino® concept is to reduce time-to-market for system designers by offering a [...]
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 [...]