Samsung Electronics creates $216 bn social wealth in 2022
Samsung Electronics Co. created 281.4 trillion won ($216 billion) worth of social wealth in 2022, meaning it distributed that amount of wealth to ot...
SK Square, SK Hynix set up $77 million chip investment unit
SK Square Co. and SK Hynix Inc., together with two other South Korean companies, have launched a 100 billion won ($77 million) joint investment unit...
Samsung’s foundry business to make DDIC chips for LX Semicon
LX Semicon Co., one of South Korea’s leading chip design firms, plans to ask Samsung Electronics Co. to manufacture display driver integrated ...
KT, Samsung to cooperate in building S.Korean-style full stack AI
South Korea's KT Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. will pool their capabilities to build domestically developed full stack artificial intelligence...
Korea’s trade deficit with China runs deep; chip support required
Just like its neighboring countries in Asia, South Korea’s economic growth has long been swayed by the ups and downs of China, which heavily r...
Samsung on smooth track to 1.4 nm foundry tech to take on TSMC
SILICON VALLEY – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday unveiled details of its advanced proces...
Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that they have invested extra 2 billion won ($1.54 million) in BOS Semiconductors, a vehicle ...
Samsung to invest $230 bn in Korea on speedy govt support
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is set to spend 300 trillion won ($230.4 billion) to build semiconductor manufactur...
Samsung accelerates foray into fastest AI chip market
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. is speeding up its efforts to penetrate deeper into the high bandwidth memory 3 (HBM3) market, an area i...
Monthly exports set for growth in June for 1st time in 10 months
South Korea’s exports in the first 20 days of June rose from a year earlier, seeing growth in the period for the first time since last August....
Samsung Electronics holds biannual global strategy meeting
Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday launched its three-day global strategy meeting, a biannual event held in June and December where major executives...
SK Hynix wins Europe certification for automotive chips
SK Hynix Inc., the world's second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Tuesday it has earned international certification for its automotive memory chip...
Samsung to apply AI, big data tech to entire chipmaking process
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to use AI and big data technology in its chipmaking process to enhance pr...
Hanwha Solutions to form industrial complex for chips, auto parts
South Korea's energy service, petrochemical and real estate development company Hanwha Solutions Corp. will build H-Techno Valley, an industrial com...
S.Korea's chip pioneer Amkor aims to rule packaging sector
The history of semiconductors in South Korea, a global tech powerhouse with the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co....
Market views turn bullish on Samsung as AI-led chip demand rises
Views on leading memory chipmaker Samsung Electronics Co. are becoming more bullish as the South Korean tech giant is expected to benefit from a ris...
Chip prices likely to rise in H2: KB Securities
KB Securities predicted on Thursday that semiconductor prices are likely to rise in the second half of the year due to the decrease in production ca...
Samsung takes on TSMC with strengthened chip design IPs
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, aims to drastically expand its chip design intellectual property (IP) partnersh...
Enemies at the door: Copycat Samsung plant in China
As Samsung Electronics Co. endeavors to cement its leadership in the semiconductor market, so its competitors are pulling out all the stops to toppl...
SK Hynix steps up chip stacking war with 238-layer 4D NAND
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has begun mass production of the industry’s hi...
Samsung to supply new Exynos auto chip to Hyundai in close tie-up
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Wednesday it will supply one of its latest automotive chips to Hyundai ...
LG, FuriosaAI to jointly develop next-generation AI chip
LG AI Research Institute announced on Wednesday its strategic alliance with FuriosaAI, South Korea’s fabless chip designer. The partnership ...
Korean carmakers' May sales grow for 9th straight month
South Korean carmakers marked sales growth for nine consecutive months as of end-May with the easing of the global semiconductor shortage and rising...
AI-driven GPU, advanced chip shortage: Boon for Samsung, SK Hynix
The global chip industry, which has been reeling from elevated inventory levels due to weak demand, is seeing a silver lining: Inventories of advanc...
Foreign demand for chip stocks powers Kospi to 1-year high
South Korea’s main bourse Kospi on Tuesday hit its highest closing since June last year, boosted by foreigners’ net buying in semiconduc...
SK Hynix’s latest 1b nm DDR5 DRAM chip under Intel test run
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Tuesday it has supplied its latest DDR5 DRAM...
S.Korean chips’ heavy reliance on China, US poses risk to national economy
South Korea’s semiconductor industry is more vulnerable to economic and industrial shifts in its key export markets than those of its rivals T...
Samsung takes steps toward XR device processor chips
Samsung Electronics Co. has been taking steps to develop extended reality (XR) device processor chips to challenge Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Go...
South Korea officially asks US to ease chip rules on China expansion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Korea has officially requested the US government to review details of the guardrail provisions in the CHIPS and Scien...
OCI to jointly produce polysilicon for chips with Japanese company
OCI Co., a leading South Korean chemical and green energy company, will team up with chemical giant Tokuyama Corp. of Japan to open a joint venture ...
