SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chipmaker SK hynix is set to join the second bidding to take over the memory division of Japanese tech giant Toshiba Corp., industry sources said Friday. According to the sources, SK hynix has conducted a study on the acquisition under a request from Toshiba. The South Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 3 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. has emerged as the third-largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world in terms of sales, data showed Thursday, narrowing its gap with rival Samsung Electronics Co. According to the data compiled by industry tracker IC Insights, SK hynix posted sales of US$5.5 [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won headed for Japan on Monday, a visit seen to help the group’s efforts to take over the memory division of Japanese tech giant Toshiba Corp., industry sources said. Chey is widely expected to meet executives of Toshiba to discuss SK hynix Inc.’s intention to [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won again expressed his commitment to acquire Toshiba’s NAND flash memory unit, a bid that will further bolster the global presence of SK’s memory affiliate, SK Hynix. “There are a number of ways that we can cooperate with Toshiba, through actions that will benefit SK [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of computer memory chips, has submitted a bid to acquire a 20 percent stake in Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business, an industry source said Tuesday. The bid is aimed at strengthening SK hynix’s NAND flash memory business as global demand for flash [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. has released a more advanced memory chip for smartphones that will offer higher data storage for mobile devices, company officials said Monday. The 8-gigabyte LPDDR4X chip boasts the “world’s highest density” and features faster data processing speed while consuming less electricity, SK hynix said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Global chipmakers are racing to boost their production capacity of NAND flash memory chips used in mobile devices, driven by a rebound in demand for smartphones and data-storage devices. After volatile price swings in recent years, semiconductor manufacturers are expected to benefit from a global upswing in prices for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., a South Korean chipmaker, plans to begin mass production of advanced flash memory chips for mobile devices, or 3D NAND chips, next year, an industry source said Monday. The advanced NAND chips with 72 layers of data-storing memory cells will be produced at SK hynix’s chip [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers saw their sales of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips drop in the first quarter of the year due mainly to falling prices and increased competition. According to the data compiled by industry tracker DRAMeXchange, Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s top chipmaker, logged sales of US$3.97 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it will spend 6 trillion won (US$4.9 billion) this year, similar to last year’s capital spending, to overcome rising challenges from rivals. The chipmaker is faced with global challenges, including falling demand for memory chips and the rise of [...]