SK, Qualcomm discuss cooperation on memory chips
LAS VEGAS – Chief executives of South Korea's energy-to-telecom conglomerate SK Group on Thursday met with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and dis...
Samsung's Q4 operating profit jumps on server chips
Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday reported a 52.5% jump in preliminary fourth-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, powered by replacement d...
Hyundai Motor beats Honda in US for the first time in its 35 years there
South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group beat Japanese rival Honda Motor Co. in the US last year, for the first time in its 35 years of...
Time to buy Korean chipmakers; Samsung among 2022 top picks
The year of the tiger will see decent stock price gains in leading chipmakers such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. on expected hypersca...
Telecom giant KT to develop its own NPU, AI ecosystem
Telecommunications giant KT Corp. announced concrete plans to launch its artificial intelligence infrastructure business by joining forces with indu...
Kosdaq: Perennial bush league as blue chips favor Kospi
South Korea’s tech-heavy Kosdaq market has been underperforming the main Kospi market for a couple of decades, raising concerns that the junio...
Chipmakers eye shorter memory downturn
Global memory chipmakers, including market leader Samsung Electronics Co., expect the current industry downcycle to be shorter than expected, with v...
Kosdaq Listed Companies Association announces top Kosdaq blue chips
The Kosdaq Listed Companies Association of South Korea announced its top Kosdaq blue chips during its 13th annual award conference held on Dec. 16...
Energy-saving chips emerge as new battleground
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) requirements are expected to drive high-performance chip demand higher, in particular from data center op...
Samsung supplies self-driving, infotainment chips to global carmaker
Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying advanced memory chips to an unidentified global automaker for use in its self-driving and infotainment systems....
SK Hynix makes industry’s highest density 24Gb DDR5 DRAM chip
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. said on Wednesday it has shipped samples of 24 Gigabit (Gb) double data rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM, the industry’s h...
Winter is over? Samsung's Q3 chip sales beat Intel's
In August, a Morgan Stanley report on the semiconductor industry, “Winter is coming,” fueled debate on whether chip prices were peaking ...
China’s CSI, KRX to launch co-developed stock indices
China Securities Index Co. (CSI) and the Korea Exchange (KRX) are set to unveil three stock indices jointly developed for the first time on Dec. 20,...
Samsung’s new auto chip mounted in Volkswagen’s infotainment system
Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying one of its latest advanced chips to Volkswagen AG for the German carmaker’s in-vehicle infotainment syste...
Samsung orders US chips, with a side of geopolitics
Every country wants a cutting-edge semiconductor plant. Samsung Electronics’ plan to build one in the U.S. is taking advantage of th...
Samsung’s $17 billion new chip plant in Taylor aims to rein in TSMC
Samsung Electronics Co. has officially announced its plan to build a $17 billion chipmaking plant in Taylor, Texas, as the tech giant aims to overta...
Samsung, Hynix notch best day this year; metaverse to drive chip demand
Shares of South Korea’s two largest chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., have staged a strong rebound on an industry prospec...
Legendary chip architect Jim Keller may team up with Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday hosted its third annual foundry forum, a gathering of its partners around the world, where legendary chip archit...
Global carmakers deliver unfinished cars due to chip shortage
Global carmakers are now delivering unfinished cars, or vehicles without popular convenience features such as USB ports, to appease customers runnin...
Samsung unveils 2.5D chip packaging tech for high-end products
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new chip packaging technology, called H-Cube, which stacks high-performance chips in mu...
Chips, auto, display stocks rebound as supply shortage eases
Shares in South Korea’s chipmakers, automakers and display producers have begun to rebound on growing signs that the global supply shortage wi...
Uncertainty clouds Samsung as paradigm shifts toward profitability
Samsung Electronics Co.’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday was almost perfect but for one thing. The world’s top memory maker s...
Hyundai Motor swings to profit in Q3 on Genesis, SUVs
Hyundai Motor Co. South Korea’s top automaker, turned to an operating profit in the third quarter on strong sales of the premium Genesis model...
SK Hynix to buy back ex-foundry unit after strong Q3 results
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...
SK Hynix unveils industry’s highest-performing DRAM chip
SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s highest-performing DRAM with a data speed capabl...
Hyundai Motor, Kia winners in sagging European car market in September
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, saw their market share in Europe rise to a level never seen before...
Samsung makes industry’s smallest 14 nm DDR5 chip with EUV technology
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Tuesday it has begun mass production of the industry’s smallest 1...
Samsung surprises foundry industry with plan for 2 nm chips
Samsung Electronics Co. caught its global semiconductor competitors off guard last week at the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021 with its announced plan to...
Samsung Q3 operating profit at 3-year high on chips, Galaxy
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, reported its highest operating profit in three years with record ...
Samsung to make 2-nanometer GAA chips by 2025 to overtake TSMC
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...
