SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. are expected to see their operating profit drop sharply in the first quarter on sluggish demand following a bumper year, industry sources said Wednesday. Bolstered by a “superboom” in the global semiconductor market, Samsung and SK hynix posted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips for data center servers are expected to drop about 50 percent this year due to inventory problems, a market tracker said Tuesday. In its latest market report, DRAMeXchange predicted that prices of server DRAM chips will plummet more than 20 percent on-quarter [...]
GUMI, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With the construction plan for SK hynix Inc.’s 120 trillion won (US$106 billion) cluster for semiconductors to be announced next month, the city of Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province is rushing to come up with a master plan to be selected as the site for the cluster. The Ministry of Economy [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. has announced new policy to continue employing outstanding engineers past retirement. A number of selected engineers will be able to continue to work without having to retire. Currently, the retirement age at SK hynix is 60. Experts argue that the new measure aims not only to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., on Wednesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new chip production line that is expected to commence operations in October 2020. The M16 production line, located in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, will be built on a 53,000-square meter lot. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The operating profits of South Korea’s listed companies belonging to the largest conglomerates contracted in the January-September period of this year if the numbers for Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix are excluded, a local business tracker said Sunday. The total for the 94 companies, not counting the two [...]
LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), a leading electrical test and measurement supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced that it has been recognized for supplier excellence by SK hynix, a world leader in DRAM, Flash and CMOS image sensor manufacturing. FormFactor supplies SK hynix with advanced wafer probe cards for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the two major local players in the semiconductor industry, are set to post record-breaking growth in the third quarter in spite of various domestic and international hurdles. Despite the controversy last year surrounding the price of semiconductor chips, which some experts claimed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, showed special attachment to SK hynix Inc. as the company held a completion ceremony for the M15 production line at the SK hynix factory in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province. Chey bought Hynix Semiconductors Inc. for 3.4 trillion won six years ago, changing the [...]
CHEONGJU, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. on Thursday launched a new production line for NAND flash products under an estimated 20 trillion won (US$17.7 billion) project. The company said the new M15 line in Cheongju, located 140 kilometers south of Seoul, covers 60,000 square meters and will [...]