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Sanan IC Announces Enhanced Foundry Platform for Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Industry

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SANAN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CO., LTD. (Sanan IC), a world-class wafer foundry with an advanced compound semiconductor technology platform, today announced worldwide access to its growing portfolio of advanced, wide bandgap power electronics foundry services for 650V and 1200V silicon carbide (SiC) devices, and 650V gallium nitride (GaN) power high-electron-mobility-transistors [...]

Samsung in Talks with Chinese Gov’t to Dispatch Chip Engineers to China

SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is in talks with the Chinese government over sending semiconductor engineers to the company’s Chinese plants. Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection, COVID-19, China has not allowed foreigners to enter the country except in special cases. The world’s largest memory chip maker and the [...]

Samsung to Hire Record Number of Experienced Workers for Chip Biz

SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to hire a record number of experienced workers for its chip business in the first half of this year, industry insiders said Friday, despite the novel coronavirus pandemic. The South Korean tech giant said its device solutions (DS) division will hire experienced workers in [...]

Samsung Expects Chip Demand to Grow This Year

SUWON, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects this year’s chip demand to grow despite concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic. During an annual shareholder meeting, Kim Ki-nam, who leads Samsung’s device solutions division, said that “external uncertainties” will continue this year but global [...]

S. Korea Expected to be 2nd in Fab Equipment Spending This Year

SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to be the second-biggest spender on semiconductor manufacturing equipment this year, industry data showed Tuesday, as the global chip industry is likely to make a recovery despite the novel coronavirus outbreak. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix [...]

Uncertainty Hangs over S. Korean Chip Exports in March

SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a solid recovery a month ago, uncertainty is mounting over South Korea’s semiconductor exports in March due to the global spread of the new coronavirus. The deadly coronavirus outbreak is spreading rapidly in South Korea, Japan, Iran and Europe, dampening both business and consumer sentiment as well as [...]

Samsung’s New EUV-equipped Chip Line Begins Mass Production

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said Thursday its new semiconductor fabrication line in South Korea using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology has begun mass production. The South Korean tech giant said the EUV-equipped facility, named V1, in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, can produce chips using a [...]

S. Korea to Spend Big on Next-generation Chip Sector

SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Sunday that it will invest 1 trillion won (US$863 million) in the next 10 years to nurture the next-generation semiconductor sector. According to the science ministry, cutting edge artificial intelligent (AI) and system-on-chip (SoC) technology, low energy consumption, high performance new devices and ultrafine fabrication processing [...]

Sanan IC Appoints Plextek RFI as a GaAs MMIC Design Services Partner for 5G

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SANAN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CO., LTD. (Sanan IC), a pure-play wafer foundry with its advanced compound semiconductor technology platform, today announced its recognition of Plextek RFI, a UK-based design house specializing in RF microwave and millimeter-wave circuit designs, as an authorized resource for gallium arsenide (GaAs) monolithic microwave integrated [...]

SK hynix Hits Yearly High on Strong Foreign Buying

SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest manufacturer of memory chips, hit a yearly high on South Korea’s main bourse on Friday as its improving business outlook attracted strong foreign buying, data showed. As of 10:46 a.m., shares of SK hynix soared to a 52-week high of 97,000 won (US$83), [...]