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Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung turns to titanium to reduce screen creases in next foldables
Samsung Electronics unveiled a new titanium-based display structure on July 15, designed to reduce screen crease visibility while improving durability and preserving a slim profile...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Hanmi, Hanwha clash in court over HBM equipment patents
Hanmi Semiconductor and Hanwha Semitech clashed in a Seoul courtroom over patents covering thermocompression bonders, or TC bonders, critical equipment used to stack DRAM chips vertically...
Thursday 16 July 2026
LG Electronics ramps up actuator hiring as AXIUM production starts early
LG Electronics is expanding hiring for its robotic actuator business after reportedly starting AXIUM production months ahead of schedule, as the South Korean company builds the development,...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung weighs outsourcing Google TPU back-end design as 2nm demand grows

Samsung Electronics is considering outsourcing some or all of the back-end design work for an input/output die in Google's reported...

Thursday 16 July 2026
CXMT IPO filing reveals Micron and Samsung alumni at heart of China's DRAM push

The IPO prospectus of Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), filed ahead of a planned listing on Shanghai's STAR Market, lays bare the...

Thursday 16 July 2026
Korean prosecutors raid Rambus, Montage, and Renesas as memory-interface chip probe goes global
South Korean prosecutors have opened a criminal front in a widening international investigation into alleged price-fixing of the small but critical chips that link AI processors to...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung, SK hynix race to make Gwangju memory hub operational within four years
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are set to anchor a KRW800 trillion (US$532.4 billion) semiconductor cluster at the former Gwangju military airport site in South Korea. Industry experts...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung's Honam semiconductor investment faces union pushback as 80% oppose project
As Samsung Electronics pushes ahead with a major semiconductor investment project in South Korea's Honam region, including Gwangju and South Jeolla Province, labor-management relations...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
SK Hynix reportedly starts ordering equipment for Yongin fab, plans 20,000 wafers a month

SK Hynix has begun placing orders with major suppliers for advanced DRAM manufacturing equipment for the first phase of its Yongin...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
South Korean court bars former Samsung NAND designers from working for SK Hynix
A South Korean court has partially granted Samsung Electronics' request to prevent two former NAND flash design employees from working for rival SK Hynix or its affiliates until April...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
US becomes top helium source for Taiwan, South Korea and Japan as Qatari supply falters

The US has become the leading source of helium and other noble gases for Taiwan, South Korea and Japan as disruptions to Qatari production...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
South Korea moves to secure power for new chip cluster

South Korea is accelerating plans to supply electricity to a new semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest by 2030, potentially...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
South Korea exports top US$100B in a month, stoking chip dependence fears

South Korea's exports surpassed US$100 billion in a single month for the first time in June 2026, raising expectations that the country...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Samsung brings HBM, logic, and optics together in packaging push
Samsung Electronics is developing advanced packaging technology that combines high-bandwidth memory (HBM), logic chips and silicon photonics (SiPh) as it seeks to address the rising...