SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has begun testing etching gas critical for the production of semiconductors, a source familiar with the issue said Wednesday, as South Korea is struggling to cope with Japan’s export restrictions. Since July 4, Japan tightened regulations on exports to South Korea of resist, etching gas and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., a major chipmaker here, said Wednesday that it has started mass-producing the industry’s highest vertically stacking 4D NAND flash chip, with shipment expected in the second half of the year. The 128-layer 1TB triple-level cell (TLC) 4D NAND chip also provides the industry’s highest density, and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers may wish they were undergoing the bottom of the memory chip down cycle in the second quarter before entering a recovery mode later this year, but it seems like they have to deal with unfavorable business conditions longer than expected due to prolonged global trade tension. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — For a car to truly drive itself without user control, it needs to be continuously aware of surroundings and make split-second decisions in any situation via the vehicle’s autonomous driving system. As a self-driving car’s system must be based on complex data sets to navigate the road and electronics [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter net dipped 64.7 percent from a year earlier, due to a slump in the global chipmaking business. The net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip producer came to 1.1 trillion won (US$952 million) in the January-March period, compared with a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major chipmakers are stepping up efforts to expand their presence in the foundry and non-memory businesses to diversify portfolios that heavily rely on memory chips in search of new growth engines, industry officials said Monday. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. hold over 60 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has completed the expansion of its fabrication line in China to step up its DRAM production. The 58,000 square-meter facility in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi will start operation in the second quarter, SK hynix said. The 950 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The party is over for South Korean memory chip makers after a two-year boom, and deep-pocketed industry leaders are now looking to the future to find the new growth drivers in the non-memory chip business. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Thursday unveiled a 1.2 trillion-won (US$1.05 billion) support plan for subcontracting firms and their R&D projects as it won approval for its plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area. Under the project, valued at 120 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Wednesday won approval for its plan to build a semiconductor cluster in the Seoul metropolitan area as the government decided to lift development regulations in the region. The update on the project, valued at 120 trillion won (US$136 billion) came [...]