SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – China’s fast growth has been both a boon and a bane to the Korean economy. While Korea has grown heavily dependent on Chinese consumption, China’s rapid development has also threatened many Korean businesses, both big and small, and Korean companies that used to underrate Chinese technology and made-in-China products [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean company said Tuesday it has developed a new fume removal system for semiconductor manufacturing chambers. The Fixed Chamber Exhaust System (FSC), created by Excelsior Co., has been already installed into more than 300 wafer-processing chambers of local factories, according to the firm. It stressed that the [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. came closer last year to catching up with its archrival in the semiconductor industry, Intel Corp., data showed Monday. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 11.6 percent of the chip market in 2015, up 0.9 percentage points from a year earlier, standing as the No. 2 player, [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. saw its global presence in the semiconductor sector advance on-year in 2015, its business report showed Friday, while the shares in the handset segment continued to lose ground. According to the latest data compiled by the South Korean giant, Samsung took up 45.3 percent of the global dynamic [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s No. 3 conglomerate, said Tuesday that it has decided to take over a local manufacturer of special gases used in chipmaking, LCD and solar panels, as part of an effort to bolster its semiconductor material business. SK will buy a 49.1 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., two major South Korean memory chip makers, have clinched no overseas takeover deals for the semiconductor business this year, industry data showed Tuesday, in contract to their global peers who’ve been strongly engaged in the merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a semiconductor device using new material that changes itself from a semiconductor to conductor as its temperature changes. The new device lessens power loss and operates much faster. The new semiconductor device created by the research team maintains the characteristics of semiconductors, but [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has announced that they will accept the recommendations from mediation related to occupational diseases that occur on semiconductor manufacturing lines. The company will create an in-house fund of 100 billion won, and use the money for compensation and research to prevent the disease. In addition, employees of their subcontractors [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced that they would be providing their 103 semiconductor partners with incentives worth a total of 14.2 billion won for the first half of the year. This is the largest incentive to be offered in the first half of the year, both in the number of target companies and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, one of the world’s most tech-advanced countries, trumped its rivals in wafer capacity last year, market data showed Tuesday, reflecting its solid footing in the semiconductor business. The monthly share of Asia’s fourth-largest economy in terms of wafer capacity stood at 21.1 percent at the end of [...]