307 news items tagged South Korea
SK Hynix strikes 5-year deal with ASML for EUV equipment supply
Thursday 25 February 2021SK Hynix has signed a 5-year contract worth KRW4.75 trillion (US4.3 billion) with ASML to procure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems, local media reports in South Korea...
Korea memory sales to grow slightly in 1Q21, says Digitimes Research
Tuesday 9 February 2021Combined sales of memory products (mainly DRAM and NAND flash chips) by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are likely to inch up 0.5% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, Digitimes...
Value of semiconductor industry M&A agreements sets record in 2020, says IC Insights
Thursday 14 January 2021Five big acquisition announcements and more than a dozen smaller deals in 2020 pushed the total value of M&A agreements in the year to an all-time high of US$118 billion, surpassing...
Fierce competition for 5G subscribers undermine Korea telecom ARPU, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 31 December 2020South Korea's top-3 telecom carriers saw their wireless businesses' average revenues per user (ARPU) slip in the first three quarters of 2020 due to fierce competition for 5G subscribers,...
Development of 3nm process challenging TSMC, Samsung
Thursday 31 December 2020TSMC and Samsung Electronics have both encountered different but critical bottlenecks in the development of their respective 3nm process technologies, according to industry sources...
GlobalWafers to raise spot quotes for silicon wafers
Tuesday 29 December 2020GlobalWafers has run all its production lines for 12-, 8- and 6-inch silicon wafers at full capacity, according to company chairperson Doris Hsu. The silicon wafer supplier plans...
OLED panel suppliers to see major gains from iPhone next year, says report
Thursday 17 December 2020Amid optimism about iPhone shipments in 2021, Samsung Display and LG Display (LGD), the two major Korean manufacturers supplying OLED for Apple's smartphones, are expected to see...
Korea memory chip output value to decrease 9.5% in 4Q20, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 26 November 2020The combined memory output value of South Korean vendors Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to register a sequential decrease of 9.5% in fourth-quarter 2020 after falling...
Wafer capacity by feature size shows strongest growth at sub-10nm
Wednesday 18 November 2020IC capacity for leading-edge (sub-10nm) processes is expected to grow and become the largest portion of monthly installed capacity across the industry beginning in 2024, according...
NOR flash likely to be in short supply in 2021, says Macronix chairman
Tuesday 27 October 2020The global supply of NOR flash memory will fall short of demand in 2021 if trade tensions between the US and China persist, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.
IntelliEPI, IVWorks team up to develop GaN epi wafers
Wednesday 19 August 2020Taiwan-based Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) has teamed up with IVWorks of South Korea to jointly develop and market GaN epi wafers based on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)...
Korea memory chip output value up in 2Q20
Tuesday 18 August 2020The output value of South Korea's memory chip industry surged 22.1% on year and 13.9% sequentially in the second quarter of 2020, when a coronavirus-induced slowdown in smartphone...
East Tender sees major players begin testing filters for 6G
Thursday 2 July 2020Thin-film optical filter maker East Tender Optoelectronics has seen clients in Japan, China and the US begin testing optical filter samples for 6G communication, as optical filers...
Taiwan edges South Korea as largest base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights
Monday 29 June 2020As of December 2019, Taiwan led the world in wafer capacity with about 22% of worldwide capacity installed in the country, according to IC Insights. Taiwan surpassed South Korea in...
Raising IC self-sufficiency increasingly difficult for China
Wednesday 27 May 2020US vendors remain dominant players in the global front-end semiconductor equipment market segment, which will be a critical factor blocking China's ambition of raising self-sufficiency...
Samsung expands foundry capacity with new EUV production line in Korea
Thursday 21 May 2020Samsung Electronics has announced plans to boost its foundry capacity at the company's new production line in Pyeongtaek, Korea to meet growing demand for cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet...
Korea memory chip output value up slightly in 1Q20, says Digitimes Research
Wednesday 20 May 2020The output value of South Korea's memory chip industry grew about 1% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, thanks mainly to a ramp-up in demand arising from the stay-at-home...
Advantech expects significant revenue surge in 2Q20
Thursday 7 May 2020Industrial PC maker Advantech expects to post revenue growth of 20-25% sequentially in the second quarter of 2020, thanks to recovery in labor return rates and factory utilization...
GlobalWafers expects flat shipment growth in 2Q20
Wednesday 6 May 2020Silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers expects to post flat sequential growth in second-quarter shipments, and has expressed uncertainty about its outlook this year.
NAND flash ASPs may tumble in 2H20
Thursday 26 March 2020The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has dragged down considerably shipments for most end products in the first quarter of 2020, according to DRAMeXchange, which cut its NAND flash...
Samsung announces EUV DRAM
Wednesday 25 March 2020Samsung Electronics has shipped one million 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, according to the company. The new EUV-based DRAM modules...
Coronavirus outbreak in Japan, South Korea may impact supply of solar cell materials
Wednesday 4 March 2020China- and Taiwan-based solar cell makers are concerned that the continued increase in coronavirus infection cases in Japan and South Korea is likely to affect supply of key materials...
Uncertainty grows over global memory chip supply
Tuesday 25 February 2020The rapid spread of coronavirus in Korea has raised increasing concerns about global supply of memory chips in 2020 as Korean makers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, account for...
MLCC, chip resistor prices set to rise through 2020
Tuesday 25 February 2020Prices for MLCCs and chip resistors are expected to rise through the fourth quarter of 2020 as supply will increasingly fall short of demand for 5G applications while fallouts of...
International car makers production in China hit by coronavirus outbreak, says Digitimes Research
Monday 24 February 2020Several international automobile manufacturers' production at joint ventures in China has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, with General Motors, Volkswagen and Honda Motor...
- US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain (Feb 24) - Nikkei Electronics Asia
- South Korea export growth in December fastest since 2018 (Jan 1) - Bloomberg
- The US-China tech war won't end under Biden (Dec 15) - Wall Street Journal
- Samsung's home market of South Korea a priority target for iPhone 12, says report (Sep 28) - 9to5Mac.com
- South Korea government, Samsung team up for self-sufficiency after Japan export curbs on chip material (Sep 14) - Reuters