SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined share of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, South Korea’s chip giants, in the global DRAM market stood at over 70 percent for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2014, data showed Thursday. Their portion together came to 70.4 percent as of the end of December, up from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chip giant SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has started supplying its up-to-date memory chip for LG Electronics Inc.’s new flagship smartphone lineup, in its latest push to grab a bigger market share with the new mobile component as it vies against home rival Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix saw its share of the NAND flash market rise in the fourth quarter of 2014 from three months earlier, narrowing its gap with industry leader Samsung Electronics, data showed Sunday. SK hynix saw its market share reach 11.4 percent in the October-December period, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, SK hynix Inc., on Wednesday reported all-time high earnings in 2014, marking the second consecutive year of a record-breaking performance. Net profit came to 4.1 trillion won (US$3.87 billion) in 2014, up 46 percent from the 2.87 trillion won posted a year earlier, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The amount of fines imposed on Korean companies for collusion by foreign authorities since 2010 totaled about 1.7 trillion won. According to the Korean Fair Trade Commission on November 18, the amount of fines that competition authorities of various countries imposed on Korean cartels over the past five years starting from 2010 is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix employees are expected to receive the greatest pay raises ever as its performance hit the record this year. Acquired by SK Group, the company has gotten huge investment in production facilities and R&D under an adverse semiconductor market condition, which leads to its great performance. SK Hynix announced [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, June 18, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–SK Hynix Inc. (or ‘the Company’, www.skhynix.com) announced that it held ‘SK Hynix HBM(High Bandwidth Memory) Symposium 2014’ at SK Hynix America Headquarters in San Jose, California on June 18th local time. Approximately 100 people from 20 major clients and partners who are leading relevant industries participated in [...]
SEOUL, June 07 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix has taken over the firmware unit of Softeq Development FLLC. It is the fifth time over the recent two years that SK Hynix has taken over companies or divisions related to NAND flash memory chips. On June 5, SK Hynix announced that the company has acquired the [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE:VMEM), a leading provider of all-flash storage arrays and appliances delivering application solutions for the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its PCIe product line to SK hynix Inc. for approximately $23 million in cash and the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 2, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory producer after Samsung, said on May 1 that its mobile DRAMs, including 20-nanometer 4-gigabit LPDDR2 and LPDDR3, won a low-carbon product certification from the Ministry of Environment. The certification scheme, sponsored by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute under the [...]