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, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter net rose 6 percent from a year earlier, which fell below the market expectation in the wake of slowing demand for memory chips and falling global sales prices. The net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip producer came to 3.4 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips for data center servers are expected to drop about 50 percent this year due to inventory problems, a market tracker said Tuesday. In its latest market report, DRAMeXchange predicted that prices of server DRAM chips will plummet more than 20 percent on-quarter [...]
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, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The global semiconductor market is expected to grow at a faster-than-expected click this year thanks to rising demand for DRAMs and other chips, industry sources said Monday. With concerns over an oversupply in the second half of this year waning, more market trackers have revised up their growth projections [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants maintained their strong dominance over the global market for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips in the third quarter, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by IHS Markit and other industrial sources, Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for 44.5 percent of the market in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to outpace U.S.-based Intel Corp. in terms of sales this year and emerge as the world’s No. 1 chip maker, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker IC Insights, Samsung will likely post sales of US$65.6 billion in the chip segment to account for 15 percent of the global market. Intel, on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to expand its production capacity for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips next year in a bid to keep its dominance in the market, an industry tracker said Thursday. “There are reports that Samsung is considering expanding its production capacity to increase competition and raise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Semiconductors are expected to account for a record high of more than 16 percent of South Korea’s annual exports this year, data showed Friday. Industry data showed South Korea’s export of chips, led by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., reaching US$70.4 billion in the January-September period, up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The global price for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips rose 5.2 percent on-month in July, data showed Thursday, casting brighter outlook over second-half earnings for South Korean chipmakers. According to the data compiled by industry tracker DRAMeXchange, the average contract price for the mainstay DDR4 4Gb 512Mx8 2133MHz came [...]