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Monday 12 October 2026
SK Hynix's US$299 billion chip plan faces military base hurdle
SK Hynix's proposed KRW400 trillion (approx. US$299 billion) semiconductor expansion in southwestern South Korea faces a major obstacle as the company races to increase memory production...
Monday 12 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix accept ASML's 10% price hike in parts, report says
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have accepted a 10% increase in ASML's replacement-part prices for lithography systems in South Korea, with the higher rates taking effect for deliveries...
Monday 12 October 2026
LG Display unveils maskless OLED technology, targeting more efficient IT displays
LG Display has unveiled a new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) manufacturing technology designed to improve production efficiency and display performance, and reduce manufacturing...
Saturday 10 October 2026
Semco moves glass substrates to package-level testing
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has reportedly completed initial reliability testing of its 100mm glass substrates and moved to package-level verification using customer chips, marking...
Saturday 10 October 2026
SK Hynix sends memory chips into orbit for testing
SK Hynix's dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) products have reached orbit aboard a South Korean satellite that successfully established communication...
Friday 9 October 2026
Samsung HBM4E wins NVIDIA nod for AI accelerator push
Samsung Electronics' next-generation 12-layer HBM4E product, a type of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), has reportedly cleared customer quality validation from Nvidia and major hyperscale...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Lam Research launches South Korea chip fund after 15,000-chamber milestone
Lam Research is launching its first country-specific semiconductor venture fund in South Korea after shipping its 15,000th locally manufactured processing chamber, deepening its manufacturing...
Thursday 8 October 2026
LG to test five commercial components in space aboard South Korea's fifth Nuri launch
LG Group is preparing to test five commercial components developed by LG Electronics, LG Innotek, and LG Energy Solution (LGES), including cameras and batteries, aboard a CubeSat carried...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AI PCs face memory squeeze as server demand takes priority
Microsoft's October 7 opening of pre-orders for Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring up to 128GB of unified memory, highlights a potential new source of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Samsung to exit in-house automotive AP, focus on high-margin chips
Samsung Electronics' System LSI division is reportedly planning a retreat from the automotive application processor (AP) business and launching a major restructuring, with a future...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Witchbox eyes Taiwan channels, hospitals for AI posture platform
South Korean health tech company Witchbox is extending AI posture analysis into gym operations management, using its iPosture Pro platform to integrate body assessments, workout programs,...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Samsung expands memory testing beyond Korea with US$4.08 billion Vietnam project
Samsung Electronics is expanding its memory testing footprint beyond South Korea with a US$4.08 billion project in Vietnam, adding another back-end and export base as tight DRAM and...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Lisa Su takes AMD's Korea ties beyond memory to AI
AMD is broadening its Korean partnerships from memory procurement to AI infrastructure and research, as chief executive Lisa Su seeks the supply and technology cooperation needed for...
Thursday 8 October 2026
27 Samsung, SK Hynix veterans joined China's CXMT, study shows
An investigation by a South Korean lawmaker's office revealed that former Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix personnel who transitioned to Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
AMD expands Korea push after Taiwan supply talks
AMD CEO Lisa Su moved from supply-chain talks in Taiwan to South Korea this week, broadening the chipmaker's Asia push from efforts to secure more CPU, GPU and advanced-wafer capacity...