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 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chip giant SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has started supplying its up-to-date memory chip for LG Electronics Inc.’s new flagship smartphone lineup, in its latest push to grab a bigger market share with the new mobile component as it vies against home rival Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The export volume of semiconductors has broken the US$60 billion milestone for the first time. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on December 18 that the amount of semiconductor exports surpassed the $60 billion level this year. For the 11-month period until November this year, exports of semiconductors [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hana Micron, the semiconductor packaging and testing company, announced on November 10 that the company has successfully commercialized a semiconductor packaging technology for the first time in the market. The flexible semiconductor packaging project was launched three years ago (in 2011) under the industrial technology source development program supported [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A joint research team of Korean and Hungarian scientists opened a new way to use graphene, often called “dream material,” as a semiconductor element by forming it nanometer-sized ribbon. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) announced on October 30 that its Center for Nano-metrology Division led by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Semiconductor, Korea’s top export item to the world, is under threat by its close competitor China. According to a report from the Institute for International Trade under the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), Korea was a top export country of 64 items, down by nine from 2009 as of 2012. [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is eyeing China for its semiconductor production and display panel supplies in searching of low cost advantage. On May 9, the world’s No. 1 memory chip maker announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. The new facility will manufacture Samsung’s advanced NAND [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Apr 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, said today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first high-performance, three-bit-NAND-based SSD for servers and data centers. The new SSD will allow data centers to better manage workloads related to social networking, web [...]
SEOUL, South Korea & SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced a new strategic collaboration on April 17 to deliver global capacity for 14 nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology. For the first time, the industry’s most advanced 14nm FinFET technology will be available at both Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, [...]