SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Expectations for the arrival of the ‘time of semiconductors’ are rising both within and outside the semiconductor industry due to the increasing demand for High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in tandem with the expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) market. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are actively working on securing leadership in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM and NAND flash are expected to be the two semiconductor products that outshine this year, a report showed Saturday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the world’s memory chip market. Sales growth for DRAM and NAND flash were projected to be 18 percent and 17 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to use a double-stack technology to develop its next-generation V-NAND flash memory, industry officials said Tuesday, as the world’s largest memory chip producer tries to further cement its leading position in the sector. At its investors’ forum held Monday, Samsung revealed that it will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Seok-hee, the CEO of SK hynix Inc., said Thursday he believes the company’s 10.3 trillion won (US$9 billion) acquisition of Intel Corp.’s NAND memory business is not an expensive deal. South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker last week announced it agreed to buy Intel’s non-volatile memory unit for $9 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, said Tuesday that it will buy the NAND business of U.S. semiconductor giant Intel Corp. in a deal worth 10.3 trillion won (US$9 billion) to help the company vault to become the world’s second-largest NAND flash chipmaker. SK hynix said it will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the global NAND flash market and its revenue increased in the second quarter from a quarter ago thanks to demand recovery in some key products, an industry report said Friday. Samsung’s NAND shipments grew by 30 percent in the April-June period on the back [...]
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, [...]
CHEONGJU, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. on Thursday launched a new production line for NAND flash products under an estimated 20 trillion won (US$17.7 billion) project. The company said the new M15 line in Cheongju, located 140 kilometers south of Seoul, covers 60,000 square meters and will [...]
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, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hyinx Inc. said Wednesday it plans to allocate some 9.6 trillion won (US$8.5 billion) this year to expand its production facilities for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and NAND chips. Through a regulatory filing, the South Korean chipmaker said it expanded the amount of investment originally estimated at 7 [...]