SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A semiconductor industry tracker on Wednesday cut in half its growth projection of the global memory chip market next year. World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), a nonprofit organization of chipmakers, forecast the memory market to expand 8.5 percent year-on-year to US$171.6 billion next year, down from a growth rate [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is widening investment for the future of the semiconductor industry by joining hands with universities to train experts and professionals. The global tech giant signed an agreement with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea’s top science university, on Thursday to build [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled its technology road map for the foundry business as the company vowed to improve its capacity and advanced manufacturing solutions in the contract chipmaking sector. At the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021, which was held online under the theme of “Adding one more dimension,” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean startup Furiosa AI said Thursday that its first silicon chip Warboy has surpassed a similar Nvidia chip on the MLPerf’s inference benchmark scores. MLPerf is a global annual artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor benchmark event hosted by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other leading businesses and research institutions. Furiosa AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, unveiled a series of YouTube videos to introduce domestic semiconductor plants as well as to offer a full glimpse of the process of producing and distribution chips. Mainly targeting the “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to be the largest spender on chip fabrication facility equipment next year, a report showed Wednesday, amid its push to expand its semiconductor supply chain. The country, home to memory giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., is estimated to invest US$30 billion in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was the world’s second-largest spender on chip equipment in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, amid a global semiconductor shortage. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., invested US$6.62 billion in chipmaking equipment in the [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said efficiency is now the key factor when it comes to developing memory chips as the South Korean tech giant rebutted concerns of the company trailing behind rivals in future memory technologies. With U.S. chipmaker Micron Technologies Inc. launching the industry’s first 176-layer NAND, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea had the second-largest monthly capacity of 200-millimeter-equivalent wafers last year behind Taiwan, a report showed Wednesday. The country, home to major chipmakers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., had a capacity of 4.25 million wafers per month, accounting for 20.4 percent of global wafer capacity [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was the world’s largest spender on chip equipment in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, amid a global semiconductor shortage. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$7.31 billion in chipmaking equipment in the [...]