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 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter net profit shot up nearly ninefold, apparently helped by a strong average sales price of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and NAND chips. The record-breaking net profit came to 2.46 trillion won (US$2.2 billion), soaring from 286 billion [...]
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, 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 [...]