SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has drawn investment of a combined US$20 billion from Dutch and German semiconductor companies, the industry ministry said Friday. The investment pledges were made as Moon Dong-min, a deputy minister for trade and investment, visited the Netherlands and Germany for trade talks earlier this week, according to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM prices are estimated to post a quarterly decline of 13-18 percent in the fourth quarter, steeper than the previous quarter, a report said Friday, as consumer demand for electronic devices remains stagnant and macroeconomic conditions aggravated. Research firm TrendForce said rising inflation has significantly weakened the appetite for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its market share of the global semiconductor industry in the second quarter, maintaining its top spot, a research showed Monday. Samsung’s chip revenue for the April-June period came in at a record quarterly high of US$20.3 billion on the back of solid server demand, taking [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s semiconductor industry saw the biggest export growth to China over the past two decades, research showed Sunday. The research by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) showed that semiconductors took up only 3.2 percent of South Korea’s total exports to China in 2000 but jumped [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will offer more tax incentives and financial support to chipmakers and nurture 150,000 experts in the field in an effort to encourage the firms to push ahead with their investment plans without a hitch, the industry ministry said Thursday. Major tech companies, including Samsung Electronics Co. and [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to nurture about 150,000 semiconductor talents over the next 10 years to help keep up its competitive edge in chipmaking and tackle manpower shortages facing domestic chipmakers, Education Minister Park Soon-ae said Tuesday. The plan came as the government is making a renewed push to support [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip maker, saw its DRAM sales fall in the first three months of the year for a second quarter on weaker prices and other negatives, but the company retained its top spot in the global market, data showed Tuesday. Samsung’s DRAM revenue [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of businesses struggling with a shortage of semiconductor technicians tend to be small and medium-sized companies that need graduates from high schools or two-year community colleges, rather than large conglomerates, a government survey showed Wednesday. A survey conducted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering raising chipmaking prices by up to 20 percent, a news report said Friday. Bloomberg reported the South Korean chipmaker is in talks with foundry clients to hike the contract chipmaking prices. Samsung spokespersons, contacted by Yonhap, said they could not officially comment on the [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — After the U.S. slapped sanctions on a string of Chinese companies, Taiwanese and Japanese chipmakers enjoyed a stronger presence in the Chinese chip market, while South Korean chipmakers’ standing there weakened, the business lobby group said Monday. The Federation of Korean Industriesanalyzed the changes in the market shares of [...]