Hanmi, other chip machine makers to benefit from TSMC capex hike

Hanmi Semiconductor Co., a chip equipment supplier to global foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), has posted record profit ...

Samsung touts latest Exynos 2200 chip as mobile game changer

Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200, which the world’s top memory chipmaker said offers a con...

Baillie Gifford, Allianz increase holdings in 3D tech firm Koh Young

Global asset managers are increasing shareholdings in Koh Young Technology Inc., Korea’s leading 3D image measurement tech firm listed ...

LG Energy sets new IPO record with $9.65 trillion investor demand

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest battery maker, has set a new record for an initial public offering with demand for its sha...

Kakao co-CEO nominee resigns after stock option exercise

Alex Young-joon Ryu, a nominee for new co-CEO of South Korea's top mobile messenger app Kakao Corp., on Monday offered to step down, after his dispo...

CICC to form up to $3.3 bn funds for bio, chips in Korea and others

CICC Capital, a private equity firm of China's largest investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC), will create funds with a comb...

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...

Hyundai’s new Genesis G90: Epitome of luxury design identity

After an exterior peek of its new Genesis sedan G90 last month, Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday fully unveiled the flagship luxury model, its first mod...

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 ...

Hyundai to replace design, R&D presidents for future mobility

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, may replace its presidents of design as well as research and development in a bold leadershi...

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,...

Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace to develop small rocket system

Hanwha Aerospace Co., a unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, is developing system technology for small projectiles that launch a satellit...

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...

KakaoTalk emoticon designers can earn more than average salaried worker

It has been 10 years since tech giant KakaoCorp. launched emoticon services within its namesake messenger app KakaoTalk. Today, there are some ...

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...

Millennial tapped to head online giant Naver

Naver Corp. has chosen Choi Soo-yeon, 40, to lead the top online platform in South Korea, in the 22-year-old company's most dramatic top management ...

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...