SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The global semiconductor market is expected to expand 25.1 percent this year on the back of robust growth from the memory sector, a report from an industry tracker showed Wednesday, amid concerns of a slowdown in demand. World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), a nonprofit organization of chipmakers, said the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — South Korea’s two largest chipmakers — plunged amid concerns of a slowdown in memory demand, analysts said Thursday. Samsung lost 1.9 percent to close at 77,000 won (US$66) on the Seoul bourse, the lowest since December 2020. SK hynix [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, on Tuesday delivered robust second-quarter earnings on the back of strong memory demand in the market. SK hynix reported that its second-quarter net income stood at 1.98 trillion won (US$1.7 billion), up 56.5 percent from a year earlier. Operating profit for the [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, is expected to deliver strong second-quarter earnings, analysts here said Friday, due to a rise in memory chip prices. SK hynix was estimated to log 9.92 trillion won (US$8.6 billion) in sales in the April-June period, up 15.3 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip producer, said Monday it has started the mass production of DRAM with the latest 10-nanometer (nm) process technology. SK hynix said its 8 Gigabit Lower Power Double Date Rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM is built on the 1anm node, using extreme [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The global memory chip market is forecast to increase 32 percent this year, a report showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. Sales growth for the DRAM market is expected to reach 41 percent in 2021, the second largest among 33 integrated circuit (IC) [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of memory chips, notably DRAM and NAND flash, are likely to continue to rise in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. DRAM prices are expected to increase further by 3-8 percent quarter-on-quarter in the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Tuesday denied a rumor that it is facing damage worth 2 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) over defective DRAMs, saying that it has requested a police probe into such a cyber libel. The rumor over SK hynix’s possible loss has been [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was the world’s largest spender on chip equipment in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, amid a global semiconductor shortage. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$7.31 billion in chipmaking equipment in the [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. further expanded its leadership in the global NAND flash market in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, despite an overall decline in chip prices. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a 33.5 percent share of [...]