SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said Wednesday it will expand its partnership with the British chip design firm Arm to bolster the competitiveness of its foundry business. As part of the collaboration, the South Korean chipmaker’s foundry division will work with Arm to optimize the design [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday said it unveiled a detailed plan for the mass production of chips with a 2 nanometer (nm) process, in a show of confidence in technological prowess and a sign to continue to double down on its foundry, or contract chip making, business. The plan [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to establish a foundry ecosystem in collaboration with its semiconductor intellectual property (IP) partners, aiming to close the gap with Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer. Samsung announced through its newsroom that it will disclose the agreements’ content with IP partners such as [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm was included among Samsung Electronics Co.’s top five clients in the first quarter, a document showed Tuesday, largely due to chip contract manufacturing. In a quarterly corporate filing, the South Korean tech giant named Apple, Best Buy, Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm and Supreme Electronics as its five [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its share of the global foundry market in the fourth quarter, slightly narrowing down the gap with the industry’s leader TSMC, a report showed Tuesday. The South Korean chipmaker’s share rose 1.1 percentage points to reach 18.3 percent in the October-December period, according to market [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Thursday it is considering doubling its foundry capacity with options, including domestic facility expansion and merger and acquisition deals. Park Jung-ho, co-CEO and vice chairman at SK hynix, made the remarks during a government event for the country’s semiconductor vision, under [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s market share in the global foundry industry is expected to decrease in the current quarter from the previous three months, a report showed Tuesday. Samsung’s share of the foundry business was estimated at 17.4 percent in the April-June period, down 1.4 percentage points from three months [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will add a foundry production line in South Korea to expand its presence in the contract chipmaking sector dominated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Ltd. and reduce its heavy reliance on its memory chip business. Samsung said its new foundry manufacturing line using [...]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SANAN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CO., LTD. (Sanan IC), a world-class wafer foundry with an advanced compound semiconductor technology platform, today announced worldwide access to its growing portfolio of advanced, wide bandgap power electronics foundry services for 650V and 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) devices, and 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power high-electron-mobility-transistors [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a deal to sell its foundry business and a domestic plant for US$435 million. The assets will be sold to a special purpose company (SPC) set up by two local buyout firms — Alchemist Capital Partners Korea and [...]