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S. Korea Eyes Non-memory Chips as New Growth Engine

SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The party is over for South Korean memory chip makers after a two-year boom, and deep-pocketed industry leaders are now looking to the future to find the new growth drivers in the non-memory chip business. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, [...]

S. Korean Memory Chip Makers Brace for Bumpy 2019

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading memory chip makers raked in unprecedented profits in 2018 on strong demand from data centers and smartphones, but they are now bracing for a down cycle caused by a supply glut and slowing global economy, market watchers said Thursday. SK hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 [...]