SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Thursday attended a ceremony marking the construction of new assembly lines of SK hynix, the world’s third-largest chipmaker, underscoring his policies for job creation and innovation-powered growth. “The government and I will not hold back our support for companies that invest, make jobs and contribute to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) –Choi Geon-wu, a 39-year-old SK Hynix employee, will not be able to visit his family over the Chuseok holidays because of the nature of his work, ensuring the safety of an industrial complex that produces semiconductors. Choi works as a firefighter at SK Hynix’s Cheongju factory, and is the first [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A GPS device that helps detect the whereabouts of elderly dementia patients was found to be very useful in locating those who had gone missing. According to police officials, all 30 senior dementia patients who received one of the devices were found after being reported missing. The average amount [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, is said to be set on building a general hospital in Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu Province, home to a factory operated by the South Korean semiconductor giant. According to industry insiders, SK hynix CEO and Vice Chairman Park Sung-wook recently [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — White-collar employees and engineers at SK hynix Inc. on Thursday announced the launch of a new labor union, calling for the management to adopt a transparent evaluation system for workers. The SK hynix division of the Korean Chemical & Textile & Food Workers’ Union said it has officially opened [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea vowed Monday to invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.34 billion) over the next 10 years to maintain its global competitiveness as the country’s industry minister visited key semiconductor production lines of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. “In order to have South Korea maintain its reputation as [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it will build a new semiconductor fabrication (FAB) plant at its headquarters in Icheon, southeast of Seoul, seeking to cope with the rising demand for memory chips around the globe. South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker said the construction will begin later this year, which [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it will join forces with three of its subcontractors to carry out joint research and development projects as part of its efforts to seek shared growth. The chipmaker said it will provide “comprehensive technological support” to MiCo Ltd., UBmaterials Inc. and TEMC for the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., said Tuesday it will establish a joint venture in China to build a new 200 mm wafer analog foundry production line. The chipmaker said its wholly owned subsidiary SK hynix System IC Inc. will build a new production line in the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers are expected to pay large bonuses to their workers this month amid the prolonged boom in the global semiconductor market, corporate sources said Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co. told its workers that the company will provide target-achievement incentives, handed out every six months, this week. The amount [...]