DRAM chips
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024
SAN JOSE -- Samsung Electronics Co. will launch three-dimensional (3D) packaging services for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) within the year, a te...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Wednesday unveiled a new contract chipmaking techno...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Rebellions-Sapeon Korea merger to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, is merging with its crosstown rival Sapeon Korea Inc., an AI chip firm ...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s exports at 22-month high in May on chips, cars
South Korea’s exports hit a 22-month high in May, led by strong shipments of semiconductors and automobiles abroad, adding to hopes that overs...
Jun 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Samsung’s new chip head instills a sense of crisis, hope
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun knows better than anyone about the difficulties the South Korean tech giant fa...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix works on next-generation HBM chip supply plans for 2025
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. said on Thursday it is working on next year’s supply plans for its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips as clie...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy
Dried seaweed, widely used to make kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls, is often referred to as the “black semiconductor” in South Kor...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix mulls HBM production in Japan, US
SK Hynix Inc. is investigating the possibility of building a plant for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), vital for generative artificial intelligence, in...
May 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Business & Politics
South Korea pledges $19 billion support package to revitalize chip sector
South Korea, home to the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., has unveiled a record 26 trillion wo...
May 23, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Executive reshuffles
Samsung Electronics replaces chip head amid HBM crisis
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, on Tuesday replaced its semiconductor business chief as the South Korean company st...
May 21, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung, SK Hynix expect chip prices to stay firm in 2024
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, forecast the prices of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung aims to overtake TSMC, Apple with 3 nm Exynos W1000 chip
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to apply its latest 3-nanometer chip processing technology to the manufac...
May 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
DeepX attracts $80 mn new investment
DeepX, South Korea's homegrown neural network and AI chip developer, announced on Friday that it finalized attracting an investment of 110 billion w...
May 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix looks to expand AI memory leadership with new NAND chip
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. aims to expand its memory leadership in the artificial intelligence sphere beyond the high-performance DRAM segmen...
May 09, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix, Samsung set to benefit from explosive HBM sales growth
Sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the red-hot DRAM product essential to artificial intelligence devices, will significantly grow in the coming y...
May 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung sets up team to win AI chip deal from Nvidia
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, established a team for a billions-of-dollars high-bandwidth memory chip supply deal...
May 06, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Sapeon to supply NPU IP to Telechips
Sapeon Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) chip subsidiary of South Korea's SK Telecom Co., announced on Friday that it will supply its AI semico...
May 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix’s HBM chip orders fully booked; 12-layer HBM3E in Q3: CEO
ICHEON, Gyeonggi Province – SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Thursday i...
May 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung shifts gears to focus on HBM, server memory chips
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it will adjust its memory chip product mix to increase the output of advanced memory...
Apr 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to mass-produce industry’s fastest LPDDR5X DRAM in H2
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday it has developed an LPDDR5X DRAM chip that supports the industry’s fastest d...
Apr 17, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea’s chip design firms go abroad to tap $426 billion market
South Korea’s chip design companies are turning their sights overseas to tap into the 593 trillion won ($426 billion) system semiconductor mar...
Apr 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to produce 290-layer V9 NAND to win chip stacking war
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is set to begin mass production of 290-layer ninth-generation vertical (V9) NAN...
Apr 11, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung Electronics stock likely to climb in Q2, analysts say
South Korean analysts have recommended investors buy Samsung Electronics Co. stocks as the world’s top memory chipmaker, which reported higher...
Apr 08, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to more than double chip investment in Texas
Samsung Electronics Co. plans to more than double its total semiconductor investment in Texas to about $44 billion to add an advanced semiconductor ...
Apr 07, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
S.Korea’s current account surplus near 3-year high on chips
South Korea’s current account surplus touched a near three-year high in February as goods exports continued to grow on strong overseas sales o...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung Q1 profit soars, set to benefit from Taiwan quake, AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday its first-quarter operating profit likely rose more than tenfold...
Apr 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix to build advanced packaging plant in Indiana for $3.9 bn
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s leading high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip producer, will plow in $3.87 billion to build advanced packaging and resea...
Apr 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung gains upper hand vs Netlist in $303 million patent dispute
Samsung Electronics Co. has taken the upper hand in its ongoing legal battle against Netlist Inc. over memory chip module patent infringement allega...
Apr 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to unveil 3D DRAM in 2025 to lead AI chip market
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, aims to introduce three-dimensional (3D) DRAM, a game-changer in the artificial int...
Apr 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)