SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix and its trade union introduced a new model for coexistence and cooperation with subcontractors by raising funds through the donation of part of their increased wages. On June 7, the world’s second largest DRAM chip supplier announced that it decided to implement the wage-sharing program to improve working conditions [...]
FREMONT, CA, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX), a major global supplier of innovative wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, today announced its Kiyo® F Series conductor etch system is enabling the transition of 3D NAND and advanced DRAM into volume production. Key etch requirements for these applications [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. saw its global market share in the mobile phone sector drop slightly during the first quarter of this year but its shares in the DRAM, TV and display areas improved, a report showed Sunday. According to the report by Samsung Electronics detailing [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presence in the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) hit a record high in the first quarter of 2015, data showed Tuesday, helped by Samsung Electronics Co.’s efforts to push ahead with its latest 20-nanometer products. The combined market share of Samsung Electronics and its [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presence in the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) hit a record high last year, data showed Thursday, as Samsung Electronics continued to secure its seat on the throne on the back of its latest 20-nanometer products. Asia’s fourth-largest economy took up 67.7 percent of the [...]
“It’s possible from the early second half that SK hynix will start mass production of lower 20-nanometer class dynamic random access memory (DRAM). We’ll spare no efforts to achieve our vision of becoming the world’s best memory chip solution company.” – Park Sung-wook, the chief executive officer of SK hynix SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined share of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, South Korea’s chip giants, in the global DRAM market stood at over 70 percent for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2014, data showed Thursday. Their portion together came to 70.4 percent as of the end of December, up from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., on Wednesday reported all-time high earnings in 2014, marking the second consecutive year of a record-breaking performance. Net profit came to 4.1 trillion won (US$3.87 billion) in 2014, up 46 percent from the 2.87 trillion won posted a year earlier, the [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics announced that it is mass producing the industry’s most advanced 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 memory and 32-gigabyte (GB) module, both of which will be manufactured based on a new 20-nanometer (nm) process technology, for use in enterprise servers. “Our new 20nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM more than [...]
Seoul, Korea, April 7, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix Inc. (or ‘the Company’, www.skhynix.com) announced that it has developed the world’s first highest density of 128GB(Gigabytes) module based on 8Gb(Gigabit) DDR4 using its advanced 20nm class technology. This module has double density compared to existing 64GB by taking advantage of TSV(Through Silicon Via) technology. This [...]