SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has started mass production of the industry’s first triple-level cell-based 321-layer NAND flash memory chips. NAND flash memory is a non-volatile memory storage medium that is widely used in memory cards, USB drives, solid-state drives (SSDs) and smartphones for general storage and transfer [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A Chinese national and former SK Hynix employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined 20 million won for misappropriating critical semiconductor technology before taking a position at Huawei. The Yeoju branch of the Suwon District Court found the 36-year-old female defendant guilty of violating South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With the U.S. presidential election just a week away, American protectionist policies appear to be intensifying, creating complex calculations for South Korean companies trying to maintain their competitive edge in a rapidly evolving global market. While U.S.-China tensions are expected to continue regardless of who wins, the candidates’ divergent approaches [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a significant shift within South Korea’s semiconductor industry, SK Hynix is seeing an unprecedented wave of employees returning after leaving for longtime rival Samsung Electronics, highlighting the company’s growing prominence in the global memory chip market. Industry insiders have dubbed these employees “Ha-Sam-Ha,” referring to those who moved from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-biggest chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., is likely to overtake the bigger rival this year for the first time in the chip business’ annual operating profit, brokerages said Sunday. SK hynix currently dominates the market for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) semiconductors used in artificial intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue and a dramatic return to profitability in the third quarter, driven by surging demand for artificial intelligence memory chips. The South Korean memory chip maker announced on October 24 that its revenue jumped 93.8% year-over-year to 17.57 trillion won in the July-September period, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said Thursday it has begun mass production of 12-layer high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, the first in the world, solidifying its competitive edge over rivals. The new 36-gigabit 12-layer HBM3E chip will be supplied to its customers, including U.S. AI chip [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is developing next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) products to meet booming global demand for artificial intelligence and higher performance computing, a senior executive said Tuesday. “Demand for improvement in memory bandwidth is increasing following a spike in data traffic in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — With the semiconductor industry experiencing a boom leading to a vibrant job market, South Korean tech giants are facing a growing dilemma: how to prevent technology leaks while competing for top talent. Industry leaders like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix routinely require employees to sign non-compete agreements, typically barring them [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has developed the world’s first 16 gigabyte DDR5 chip using the sixth generation of the 10 nanometer chipmaking technology. According to SK hynix, the new product comes with an improvement in cost competitiveness when compared with the [...]