SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips, will build next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chiplets for the computing startup Tenstorrent, the Canadian company has said. Tenstorrent has said it has selected Samsung’s Foundry Design Service team to manufacture its chiplets, which can be used for a wide [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to reduce its chip deficit in the third quarter, thanks largely to a continued cut in its chip output, according to analysts Saturday. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, slashed its chip production early this year, belatedly joining its peers, like SK hynix [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully developing a Low Power Compression Attached Memory Module (LPCAMM), a next-generation memory solution based on low-consumption DRAM technology. This achievement is poised to reshape the landscape of the next-generation PC market, including notebooks and mini-PCs, due to its remarkable potential for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Vice Chairman Park Jung-ho said Friday his company stopped doing business with Huawei Technologies Co., following U.S. chip sanctions against China in 2020 and has not supplied semiconductors to the Chinese smartphone maker. Last week, the chipmaker said it opened an internal investigation into how its memory [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will invest US$1 million in Texas A&M University’s education and recruiting programs meant to nurture talent in the semiconductor sector. The South Korean chip giant signed the partnership with the engineering school last week in an effort to secure talent for its semiconductor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SKC Co., a South Korean manufacturer of secondary battery parts and advanced materials, said Monday it is acquiring a stake in a U.S. semiconductor packaging startup as it accelerates the drive for chip post-processing. The investment in Chipletz, an Austin-based fabless company, will give SKC an approximately 12 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On Thursday, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced its plans to hire 39 patent reviewers specializing in semiconductors as part of its efforts to prevent overseas technology leaks in the semiconductor field as well as a loss of skilled employees. This marks the second open recruitment following the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it began an internal investigation into how its memory chips ended up in a new smartphone made by Huawei Technologies Co. Bloomberg News previously reported that the South Korean chipmaker’s DRAM — LPDDR5 — and NAND Flash memory are used in the Chinese tech [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix announced on Wednesday the remarkable success of its “New Code of Conduct” video series, which garnered an impressive 15.18 million views in just over a month on YouTube. Previously, the company had introduced short-form ESG campaign content titled “We Do Green Technology” and the captivating “TOP 6 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chip industry, heavily dependent on China for production and exports, faces a dilemma due to the United States government’s policy of promoting sanctions against Beijing, a report showed Thursday. The global chip supply network is projected to undergo reorganization between 2025 and 2030, aligning with the anticipated [...]