SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in Samsung Electronics and SK hynix — South Korea’s two largest chipmakers — soared to close at fresh yearly highs on Tuesday, buoyed by expectations for growing demand and a recovery in global chip prices. Samsung, the world’s No. 1 memory chipmaker, spiked 3.66 percent to close at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research Corp. will build a technology center in South Korea, officials said Wednesday. Yongin city authorities signed a deal with Lam Research Korea, the South Korean unit of the U.S. company, earlier in the day to provide the supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The volume of South Korea’s chip exports has climbed more than 5 percent this year despite a tumble in prices of key products, data showed Monday. The country’s semiconductor exports totaled 29,834 tons for the year up to Oct. 25, up 5.2 percent from the same period a year [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the global NAND flash market and its revenue increased in the second quarter from a quarter ago thanks to demand recovery in some key products, an industry report said Friday. Samsung’s NAND shipments grew by 30 percent in the April-June period on the back [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. on Thursday reported dismal second-quarter earnings on lower memory chip prices, saying it will cut output to respond to challenging market conditions and uncertainties from trade disputes between South Korea and Japan. Net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip maker came to 537 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., a major chipmaker here, said Wednesday that it has started mass-producing the industry’s highest vertically stacking 4D NAND flash chip, with shipment expected in the second half of the year. The 128-layer 1TB triple-level cell (TLC) 4D NAND chip also provides the industry’s highest density, and [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced the world’s highest-resolution image sensor, with 64 megapixels for smartphones, to meet the growing demand for mobile devices with better image quality. Samsung unveiled two new 0.8-micrometer pixel image sensors — the 64-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GW1 and the 48-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GM2, expanding [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 240 billion won (US$204 million) in the next 10 years to develop key semiconductor technologies that can alter the paradigm of the chip industry as a whole, the science ministry said Thursday. The medium-to-long term chip sector growth plan centers around securing know-how in such [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has moved its artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Canada to a prestigious institute to bolster efforts to develop advanced technologies applicable to system semiconductors. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) AI Lab, which first opened at the University of Montreal in August [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will make a concerted effort to build up its non-memory chip industry in line with its goal of becoming a global semiconductor powerhouse by 2030, the government said Tuesday. Under the system semiconductor vision strategy, Asia’s fourth-largest economy has set its sights on establishing itself as the [...]