SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Thursday it plans to provide massive tax incentives and state subsidies to chipmakers to encourage them to spend a combined 510 trillion won (US$453 billion) by 2030, in line with its vision to become a global powerhouse in both memory and non-memory chips. Under the plan [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, home to major memory chip suppliers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., ranked second in global chip sales last year, a report showed Wednesday, although it had extremely weak presence in the fabless segment. Total integrated circuit (IC) sales from South Korea-based firms represented 21 [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers’ spending on equipment soared 61 percent last year from a year earlier, the largest growth among major chip producing countries, industry data showed Wednesday. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$16.08 billion in 2020, up from [...]
DAEJEON, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new technology that can detect food poisoning bacteria in real time using a semiconductor processing technology. The National Nanofab Center announced on Monday that it had developed technology to detect food poisoning bacteria using a nano structural body that was formed using the [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, home to chipmaking giants such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., was the world’s third-largest market for semiconductor materials in 2020, a report showed Tuesday, moving down one spot from a year earlier after posting an under-par industry average growth. The country’s chip materials market [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to top the semiconductor capital spending this year, a report showed Wednesday, as it tries to catch up with the leading foundry firm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). The South Korean tech giant, the world’s largest memory chip producer, has not provided guidance for [...]
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, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. was the industry’s second-largest spender on semiconductor research and development (R&D) last year, a report showed Wednesday, as the South Korean tech giant tries to beef up its presence in the non-memory sector. Samsung, the world’s top memory chipmaker, spent US$5.6 billion on chip-related R&D in [...]
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, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to maintain second place in the global semiconductor supplier ranking this year behind U.S. giant Intel Corp. despite a solid sales increase, an industry report showed Tuesday. The South Korean tech giant was projected to log US$60.4 billion in chip sales this year, up [...]