SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — China remained dependent on South Korea in 2017 for more than half of its memory chip demand, despite Beijing’s latest efforts to foster its chipmakers on a big scale, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Korea International Trade Association and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean manufacturers of car batteries are anticipated to benefit from Beijing’s latest move to cut subsidies provided to Chinese companies, industry watchers said Monday. Chinese-based electric car battery maker OptimumNano Energy recently announced that it will suspend its production line for six months citing financial problems. BYD, China’s [...]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SANAN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CO., LTD. (Sanan IC), a pure-play compound semiconductor foundry, today announces its entry into the North American, European, and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets with their advanced III-V technology platform. With their broad portfolio of gallium arsenide (GaAs) HBT, pHEMT, BiHEMT, integrated passive device (IPD), filters, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — China accounted for more than 30 percent of Samsung Electronics Co.’s overall sales over the January-June period, industry data showed Monday, emerging as the company’s largest market and outpacing the American continents for the first time. The South Korean tech giant, which posted sales of 83.9 trillion won (US$74.6 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea vowed Monday to invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.34 billion) over the next 10 years to maintain its global competitiveness as the country’s industry minister visited key semiconductor production lines of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. “In order to have South Korea maintain its reputation as [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., said Tuesday it will establish a joint venture in China to build a new 200 mm wafer analog foundry production line. The chipmaker said its wholly owned subsidiary SK hynix System IC Inc. will build a new production line in the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will continue to lead in the global memory chip industry and China will have limited impact, at least over the next couple of years, Moody’s Investors Service said Saturday. As the world’s largest consumer of semiconductors, China has made a heavy investment in the sector in order [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Small and medium-sized parts makers of memory chips and displays will be able to test their products in assembly lines of large companies that can improve their overall competitiveness, the industry ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy held a meeting with leading semiconductor and display [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry minister called on China to fairly conduct an antitrust probe into two Korean chipmakers as regulators are reportedly looking into their alleged price fixing, his office said Tuesday. Paik Un-gyu, South Korean minister of trade, industry and energy, made the request during a meeting with China’s [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, semiconductors accounted for 17.4 percent of all exports from South Korea. With aggregate semiconductor exports totaling $92.7 billion, 39.5 percent ended up in China, and 27.2 percent in Hong Kong. In short, the value of Korean semiconductors exported to China accounted for 11.6 percent of all South [...]