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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s No. 3 conglomerate, said Tuesday that it has decided to take over a local manufacturer of special gases used in chipmaking, LCD and solar panels, as part of an effort to bolster its semiconductor material business. SK will buy a 49.1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies’ share of the global mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip market hit an all-time high in the third quarter of the year, far outpacing their rivals, data showed Sunday. Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for 56.9 percent of global mobile DRAM sales in the July-September period, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers are expected to expand their production of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips despite falling market prices in a bid to cope with the rise of Chinese rivals, industry sources said Wednesday. The global contract price for a DDR3 4GB module, the standard in setting the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech titan Samsung Electronics Co. posted a record share of the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market in the second quarter, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the rising presence of chips in its business portfolio. Samsung’s share of the global DRAM market came to 45.2 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., two major South Korean memory chip makers, have clinched no overseas takeover deals for the semiconductor business this year, industry data showed Tuesday, in contract to their global peers who’ve been strongly engaged in the merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investors dumped shares of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix during their recent selling spree sparked by China’s stock rout and uncertainty over a U.S. rate hike, data showed Monday. Offshore investors unloaded 751.3 billion won (US$635.4 million) worth of Samsung Electronics shares between Aug. 5 and Friday, lowering their [...]