SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — In the late 1980s, Japan was a semiconductor powerhouse, accounting for more than 50 percent of sales by country and region. However, Japan’s semiconductor industry has declined, and the market is now dominated by Taiwan and South Korea, with the U.S. perceiving China’s growth as a threat. The U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 experts in South Korea consider the local chipmaking industry to be in a crisis due to multiple external risks, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey of 30 experts in the semiconductor sector, taken by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), 76.7 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The ruling People Power Party (PPP) will propose a package of two bills to strengthen South Korea’s competitiveness in the semiconductor industry, the party’s special panel on chips said Tuesday. One of the bills calls for enabling a government committee to designate special zones on strategic industries and provide [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major chipmakers are stepping up efforts to expand their presence in the foundry and non-memory businesses to diversify portfolios that heavily rely on memory chips in search of new growth engines, industry officials said Monday. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. hold over 60 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The CTO of HiSilicon Technologies Co., the semiconductor design company of China’s Huawei Technologies Co., was previously employed as an executive director at Samsung Electronics Co. The industry was shocked when Huawei successfully poached the high-ranking Samsung executive. He was the key figure who had developed Samsung Electronics’ 10-nanometer [...]