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Sunday 16 August 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix HBM4 hiring war drains South Korea's chip design talent

South Korea's semiconductor talent shortage is intensifying as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix recruit experienced chip designers for increasingly complex HBM4 products, drawing key...

Sunday 16 August 2026

TV slowdown accelerates panel makers' shift to IT OLED, UBI Research found

With global TV demand slowing and panel prices continuing to fall, display makers are facing intensifying profit pressure. Analysts...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea chip cluster could expand to nine fabs as SK plans new investment

South Korea's planned southwestern semiconductor cluster could eventually expand from four fabs to as many as nine as the government accelerates land, power, and infrastructure work...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea's memory-chip exports surge 277% as system chips slip

South Korea's semiconductor export boom was heavily concentrated in memory in July. Memory-chip export value surged 276.9% year over...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung weighs moving legacy memory backend work to Vietnam to free up capacity for HBM

Samsung Electronics may move part of the general-purpose DRAM and NAND packaging and testing now handled at its Cheonan and Onyang sites in South Korea to Vietnam, potentially freeing...

Friday 14 August 2026

SK Hynix looks beyond memory with new global growth team

SK Hynix has set up a dedicated team to search for growth opportunities beyond its core memory business and has put a senior group executive in charge, a move aimed at turning the...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung Electro-Mechanics glass substrate plan slips, with mass production now seen after 2028

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has again delayed its semiconductor glass substrate commercialization schedule after a prototype reportedly failed a customer's reliability review. The setback...

Friday 14 August 2026

China PCB makers pour billions into AI server, HPC, optical markets

Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) makers are stepping up investment in higher-value markets including AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC) and optical communications. Following...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung chip design embraces AI, but loss of control and hallucinations remain a problem

The AI wave is sweeping through the chip industry, but hallucinations, loss of control, and cybersecurity risks remain unresolved even as efficiency leaps. Youngsik Kim, head of the...

Friday 14 August 2026

SK Hynix advances Yongin fab construction for 2027 cleanroom launch

SK hynix has pushed construction of its semiconductor campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, to 87% completion as it targets February 2027 for the start of operations at...

Friday 14 August 2026

Samsung and SK hynix push AI deeper into fabs as semiconductor manufacturing enters autonomous era

As the world enters an AI-powered era where the persistent need for more complex architectures is driven by rising demands for higher computing performance, one bottleneck confronting...

Friday 14 August 2026

ATEN lifts second-quarter profit on higher sales, pricing, utilization

ATEN International said its second-quarter 2026 revenue rose 19% year-over-year, while gross margin improved to 62% from 59% and pretax profit jumped 235%. The Taiwan-based keyboard-video-mouse...

Friday 14 August 2026

Hyundai's robot foundry bet outpaces its local supply chain

Hyundai Motor Group and the South Korean government are accelerating a KRW9 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) robot and AI investment...

Friday 14 August 2026

Korea's CNT pellicle race heats up as aweXome Ray pushes toward EUV commercialization

As South Korea's major memory manufacturers race to secure next-generation lithography technologies for increasingly advanced process nodes, the approaching High-NA EUV era is adding...

Thursday 13 August 2026

Samsung delays High-NA EUV adoption until 1nm production in 2030

Samsung Electronics plans to introduce high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet (High-NA EUV) lithography into mass production at its 1nm node around 2030, according to South Korean...

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