SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of memory chips, said Thursday it has set up a new unit charged with the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor-related business as part of its strategy to focus more on the high-demand premium chips. The new AI Infra unit, established recently in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Monday it has started supplying its latest mobile DRAM chip to Chinese smartphone maker Vivo. The 16-gigabyte packages of Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo (LPDDR5T), developed in January, will be installed in Vivo’s latest smartphone models, X100 and X100 Pro, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it posted losses for the fourth consecutive quarter in the third quarter of this year but recovering demand for high-performance products helped narrow its operating deficit. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker said in a regulatory filing its operating losses amounted to 1.79 trillion [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) –The U.S. government on Friday officially issued a rule updating general authorizations for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to keep supplying their China-based plants with certain U.S. semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced the rule after it notified the Seoul government of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data shows that the waste recycling performance of South Korea’s top two semiconductor companies, namely Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, is being overestimated due to domestic regulations that diverge from international trends. Local regulations consider the production of heat energy by burning waste as recycling, but some have questioned [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said Friday his company stopped doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., following U.S. chip sanctions against China in 2020 and has not supplied semiconductors to the Chinese smartphone maker. Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it began an internal investigation into how its memory chips ended up in a new smartphone made by Huawei Technologies Co. Bloomberg News previously reported that the South Korean chipmaker’s DRAM — LPDDR5 — and NAND Flash memory are used in the Chinese tech [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix announced on Wednesday the remarkable success of its “New Code of Conduct” video series, which garnered an impressive 15.18 million views in just over a month on YouTube. Previously, the company had introduced short-form ESG campaign content titled “We Do Green Technology” and the captivating “TOP 6 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will hold Memory Tech Day 2023 in October in the United States to share its newest chip technologies and products with technicians and industry officials worldwide. The event is scheduled to take place in San Jose, California, on Oct. 20, beginning with an [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. retained its top spot in the global memory chip market in the first quarter despite lackluster earnings amid the chip glut, a report showed Sunday. SK hynix Inc., on the other hand, was pushed back to third place from No. 2 compared with a year earlier, [...]