Foundry competition

MBK Partners' first female partner Lee In-kyung has made it to the list of Forbes Asia's 20 power businesswomen published in its November issue. For...

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 100% stake in South Korea-based Key Foundry for 5...

SK Hynix Inc. will be buying back the remaining stake in its former unit Key Foundry to double its foundry capacity, after its third-quarter operati...

Netflix Inc. added 4.4 million memberships in the third quarter, more than the company had forecast, as viewers flocked to the streaming platform wi...

Once a glimmer in the eyes of executives from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley, 5G now dominates a broad swath of the global supply chain—and the ...

KKR & Co. has secured the exclusive negotiating rights to buy SK E&S Co.'s new preferred shares worth 2.4 trillion won ($2 billion), which t...

Samsung Electronics Co. caught its global semiconductor competitors off guard last week at the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021 with its announced plan to...

South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions Corp. is set to raise $503 million to expand its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) business in China, the world&rsq...

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it will be able to commercialize a 2-nanometer transistor process technology by 2025 to take on bigger foun...

Samsung Electronics Co. is well known for its ample cash reserves close to $100 billion, ready to spend where it deems necessary for growth.But the ...

South Korea’s SK Innovation Co. on Friday officially launched its battery and petroleum exploration and production businesses as separate enti...

South Korea’s SKC Co. plans to set up a joint venture with British battery materials maker Nexeon Ltd. for the silicon anode materials market....

SILICON VALLEY – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading chipmaker, will manufacture Tesla Inc.’s next-generation hardware 4 ...

The global semiconductor industry is keeping a close eye on whether Taylor, a city located in Williamson County of Texas and the most probable site ...

SK Hynix Inc.’s $101 billion project to build a semiconductor complex in South Korea was delayed again, stoking concerns that the world’...

Rising coal prices in China will likely benefit South Korean petrochemical companies such as Lotte Fine Chemical and Hanwha Solutions, by strengthen...

Lotte Shopping Co., South Korea’s top department store operator, is set to acquire Hanssem Co. with IMM Private Equity.IMM PE selected Lotte S...

South Korea’s major mobile carrier KT Corp. and the AI One Team coalition announced plans last week to develop a hyperscale artificial intelli...

SILICON VALLEY -- In a digital world where data theft is growing rapidly, hackers who turn their lives around to help in the fight against cybercrim...

Rising copper prices on a global economic recovery helped a South Korean non-ferrous metal product maker Poongsan Corporation improve its earnings, ...

Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday announced new additions to its high-end line of Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip phones, in hopes that the new 5G-enabl...

South Korea's largest car rental and auto leasing company Lotte Rental Co. is set to invest 25 billion won ($21.8 million) in a domestic autonomous ...

The world’s two largest foundry chipmakers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics Co., are in a heated race fo...

Samsung Electronics Co. overtook Intel Corp. as the world’s top chipmaker by revenue in the second quarter, but the South Korean technology gi...

Intel Corp.'s announcement on Monday of securing Qualcomm Inc. as its first fabless client caught Samsung Electronics Co. off guard, as the South Ko...

South Korea’s major drugmakers such as Celltrion Inc., Samsung Bioepis and Dong-A St are going for broke to release biosimilars of Stelara, Jo...

The global auto industry is rapidly making a full-fledged shift towards electric vehicles (EVs), with the world’s five major market players, i...

Micro-fulfillment is on everyone’s lips these days, or so it seems, as retailers compete to drastically slash delivery times for online orders...

DB HiTek Co., one of South Korea’s leading foundry chipmakers, is enjoying the current market boom, which is forcing makers of cars and electr...

The global webtoon battleground between South Korea's leading platforms Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. has expanded into Southeast Asia with each compa...