South Korea's 2021 outbound FDI at record-high $76 bn

South Korea's 2021 outbound FDI at record-high $76 bn

South Korea's outbound direct investment in 2021 soared 32.8% from the year previous to a record-high $75.9 billion, led by financial investors and ...

Goldman sees Samsung, SK Hynix shares up 50% over next 12 mths

Goldman sees Samsung, SK Hynix shares up 50% over next 12 mths

The share prices of the world’s two largest memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. each have room to rise by about 50% ov...

Hyundai shuts Russia car plant for 1 wk on parts shortages

Hyundai shuts Russia car plant for 1 wk on parts shortages

Car production at Hyundai Motor Co.'s plant in Russia has been halted since March 1 as the Russia-Ukraine war further aggravated shortages of automo...

US chipmakers announce 10% hike in NAND flash prices 

US chipmakers announce 10% hike in NAND flash prices 

US semiconductor manufacturer Western Digital Corp. announced Tuesday it will raise the price of its NAND flash memory chips by 10%. Earlier ...

Perfect storm from Ukraine crisis clouds Korea Inc.’s outlook

Perfect storm from Ukraine crisis clouds Korea Inc.’s outlook

South Korean companies had dreamed of a post-COVID-19 earnings recovery as the globe geared up for economic reopening. But their hopes are now dampe...

PCB makers in record-setting rally on strong outlook

PCB makers in record-setting rally on strong outlook

Shares in South Korea's small and medium-sized printed circuit board (PCB) makers extended their upward run to hit fresh highs this week, bucking th...

SK Hynix develops memory chip with computing capabilities

SK Hynix develops memory chip with computing capabilities

SK Hynix Inc. has developed a next-generation memory chip with computing capabilities, which the company says will provide solutions for data conges...

Samsung, SK Hynix ahead of rivals in 200-plus-layer NAND chips

Samsung, SK Hynix ahead of rivals in 200-plus-layer NAND chips

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are expected to lead rivals in the industry’s tran...

Hyundai, Kia post record US car sales as Japanese firms struggle

Hyundai, Kia post record US car sales as Japanese firms struggle

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., the two automaking units of Hyundai Motor Group, saw their combined auto sales in the US rise to their highest leve...

US survey findings on chip shortage rattle global chipmakers

US survey findings on chip shortage rattle global chipmakers

The US government’s release on Tuesday of its findings on the reasons behind the global chip shortage is raising concerns among chipmakers, wi...

Hyundai Motor vows $7.7 billion investment after record 2021 revenue

Hyundai Motor vows $7.7 billion investment after record 2021 revenue

Hyundai Motor Co. said on Tuesday it will spend a record 9.2 trillion won ($7.7 billion) this year to ramp up facilities for electric cars and other...

SK Hynix to invest more in US chip design startup SiFive

SK Hynix to invest more in US chip design startup SiFive

SK Hynix Inc., South Korea’s major chipmaker, decided to make an additional investment in a US chip design startup SiFive in order to secure s...

SK's 5-year journey toward batteries, bio and chips

SK's 5-year journey toward batteries, bio and chips

Back in January 2017, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won emphasized the need for “deep change," in his New Year message and presented the phrase a...

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

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 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

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 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...

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 ...

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