SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. of South Korea will strive for smooth business operations in China, in spite of the latest U.S. export controls, on the basis of continued consultations with governments concerned, according to officials of the firms Sunday. The Joe Biden administration announced a set [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s second largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it had expanded the share of domestically-produced neon gas used in its chip manufacturing process to 40 percent. Neon is one of the main components of excimer laser gas, which is used in photolithography. Thus far, South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The third-quarter earnings outlooks for Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s top two leading chip manufacturers, remain largely grim due to a recent fall in global demand for memory chips, an industry data analysis showed Sunday. According to the analysis by Yonhap Infomax of earnings outlooks [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it will start an overseas working and training program to help its employees have a broader perspective of the global semiconductor industry. The Global eXperience Program (GXP) will run for five weeks from the end of October at SK hynix’s overseas branches as well [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., the world’s No. 2 memory chip maker, said Tuesday it will start construction of a new 15 trillion-won (US$10.9 billion) semiconductor plant in South Korea next month to prepare for the company’s future growth. The company said it will start construction of the new fabrication plant, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. were the biggest NAND flash sellers in the world in the second quarter, an industry report showed Thursday. According to Taiwan-based market analyst firm TrendForce, Samsung’s NAND flash sales during the April-June period reached US$5.98 billion, with its global [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Friday it aims to select a site for a semiconductor packaging plant in the United States as early as in the first quarter of next year. Earlier in the day, Reuters reported that the world’s second-largest memory chip maker aims to invest billions of dollars [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it has developed the NAND flash with the industry’s highest vertical layers that enable improved productivity and fast data transfer. The world’s second largest memory chip maker said its 238-layer 4D NAND flash is the “most layered and smallest” in size, during the Flash [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Tuesday it has wrapped up a 576 billion-won (US$492 million) acquisition of local chip contract manufacturer Key Foundry. The company said it has recently completed the official acquisition process of the 8-inch wafer foundry manufacturer from Magnus Investment Partners LLC, a [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it logged record quarterly sales and the best second-quarter operating profits in four years, driven by the sales of NAND flash and positive currency effects. The world’s second-largest memory chip maker reported its second-quarter net income of 2.87 trillion won (US$2.2 billion), up 44.7 [...]