SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Global chipmakers are racing to boost their production capacity of NAND flash memory chips used in mobile devices, driven by a rebound in demand for smartphones and data-storage devices. After volatile price swings in recent years, semiconductor manufacturers are expected to benefit from a global upswing in prices for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., a South Korean chipmaker, plans to begin mass production of advanced flash memory chips for mobile devices, or 3D NAND chips, next year, an industry source said Monday. The advanced NAND chips with 72 layers of data-storing memory cells will be produced at SK hynix’s chip [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists led by KAIST professor Bae Hag-youl announced Thursday that it has developed a water-disposable, non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) chip using a water soluble SSG (solid sodium with glycerine) paper. In a nutshell, the device dissolves in a matter of seconds once it [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, on Thursday rolled out the industry’s first removable data storage card that is five times faster than that of the conventional micro SD card. The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) card with 250 gigabytes (GB) of storage can be used in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it started the mass production of a 256-gigabyte (GB) memory chip for high-end smartphones, less than a year after it kicked off the 128-GB model. The South Korean tech giant said the new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) boasts speed that is nine times faster than [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is eyeing China for its semiconductor production and display panel supplies in searching of low cost advantage. On May 9, the world’s No. 1 memory chip maker announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. The new facility will manufacture Samsung’s advanced NAND [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Powered by an overwhelming gain in the memory sector, Korea secured the No. 2 position in semiconductor output, beating its archrival Japan last year for the first time. According to a recent report by IHS Technology, a U.S. market researcher, Korea ranked second in the chip-making industry with [...]