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Tokyo Electron: Chip machinery giant with ‘tireless animal spirit’
Tokyo Electron CEO Toshiki Kawai TOKYO – In the 1980s, Japanese chipmakers dominated the world’s semiconductor industry. Companies like NEC,…
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Samsung Electronics, TSMC to tie up for HBM4 AI chip development
TSMC is the world’s largest foundry player TAIPEI – South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is…
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Samsung, SK Hynix up the ante on HBM to enjoy AI memory boom
Samsung memory business chief Lee Jung-bae at Semicon Taiwan 2024 TAIPEI – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the…
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South Korea’s Exports Grow for 11th Straight Month
Shipping containers are stacked at a pier in South Korea in August. Photo: yonhap/Shutterstock South Korea’s exports expanded for an…
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Activst fund KCGI struggles to fund Hanyang Securities deal
KCGI CEO Kang Sung-boo (File photo by Eun-Koo Kang) KCGI, a South Korean private equity firm, has been struggling to…
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South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop
CJ CheilJedang’s seaweed snacks Dried seaweed prices are rising at a fast pace despite handsome growth in production, leaving South…
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Samsung, SK Hynix ramp up DRAM business on rapid AI growth
Samsung Electronics semiconductor manufacturing complex under construction in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province (Photo by Hyuk Choi) Samsung Electronics Co. and SK…
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OCI supplies ultrapure phosphoric acid to SK Hynix
OCI employees pose for a group photo after shipping the first batch of high-purity phosphoric acid to SK Hynix (Courtesy…
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Gencurix, Hitachi to cooperate on molecular diagnostics
South Korean biotech company Gencurix Inc. said on Tuesday that it will cooperate with Japan’s Hitachi High-Tech Corporation to enter…
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LG CNS, Seoul National Univ. to establish DX talent program
South Korea’s LG CNS Co. signed an agreement with Seoul National University’s Department of Industrial Engineering on Tuesday to develop…
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Samsung supplies LPDDR4X auto chip to Qualcomm, set for LPDDR5 deal
Samsung agrees to supply its LPDDR4X automotive chip to Qualcomm South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday…
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POSCO to sell entire stake in P&O Chemical to OCI amid corporate reform
POSCO’s headquarters in Seoul POSCO Future M Co., a battery materials affiliate of South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc.,…
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Kioxia’s TSE listing: Boon for SK Hynix, bane for Samsung Electronics?
SK Hynix’s multi-chip package TOKYO – The planned initial public offering (IPO) of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. is…
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Samsung’s new 2 nm foundry process to cut chip size by 17%
Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2024 was held in San Jose, California in June A new contract chipmaking technology, dubbed the…
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AI-driven shifts will unlock opportunities: SK Chairman
SK Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks at the 2024 Icheon Forum on Aug. 21, 2024 (Courtesy of SK Group) Bumpy roads…
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SK seeks sale of specialty gas unit for around $3 bn
Researcher at SK Specialty’s laboratory (File photo, courtesy of SK) SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is considering…
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TelePIX launches AI processor for satellites
The South Korean satellite startup TelePIX announced on Monday that it sent its high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) processor for satellites…
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Hanwha Aerospace to spin off non-core units for defense sector
Prototype of Hanwha Aerospace’s advanced aero engine (File photo by Hanwha Aerospace) Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon…
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Korea’s retail investors buy stocks on dips in turmoil
(Courtesy of Getty Images) South Korea’s individual investors took the recent turmoil in stock markets as chances to buy shares…
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Korea’s Investment forum KIW 2024 to kick off September 9
Korea Investment Week 2023 South Korea’s largest investment forum Korea Investment Week 2024 (KIW 2024) will kick off next month…
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Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling
Trading room at Kookmin Bank’s branch in Yeouido, Seoul on August 5 (Courtesy of Yonhap) Foreigners and institutional investors in…
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LG Innotek, Ansys forge digital twin technology partnership
South Korea’s LG Innotek said on Thursday that it would expand the use of digital twin technology across its operations,…
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Seoul Semiconductor overtakes Japan’s Nichia as top backlight LED maker
Seoul Semiconductor showcases its future technologies at the Society for Information Display’s Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles South Korea’s…
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Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
Air Products Korea’s factory in Ulsan (Courtesy of Air Products) US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has…
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Memory chip demand to stay firm until H1, 2025: SK Hynix CEO
SK Hynix chip plant in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, S. Korea (Courtesy of SK Hynix) The memory chip market is expected…
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LG unveils Korea’s 1st open source AI to take on Meta, Google
LG AI Research President Bae Kyunghoon (File photo by LG Corp.) LG Group, South Korea’s fourth-biggest conglomerate, on Wednesday introduced…
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US to award SK Hynix up to $450 mn for Indiana chip complex
SK Hynix headquarters in South Korea (File photo) The US government said on Tuesday it plans to provide SK Hynix…
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Korean tech stocks suffer falls despite strong Q2 results
Despite strong earnings in the second quarter, 60% of listed companies saw their stock prices decline Some 60% of the…
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Will Samsung benefit from Nvidia’s new AI chip delays?
Nvidia Blackwell (File photo downloaded from Nvidia website) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is likely to benefit…
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LS Cable breaks ground for bus ducts plant in Mexico
Koo Bon-kyu (fourth from left), CEO of LS Cable & System, joined the groundbreaking ceremoney for new plants in Mexico…
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Samsung invests in US AI security startup Protect AI
The founders of Protect AI (Screenshot captured from Protect AI website) Samsung Venture Investment Corp., Samsung Electronics Co.’s venture capital…
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S.Korea, China’s technology leak, anti-dumping disputes surge
(Courtesy of Getty Images Bank) South Korean companies are getting tough on anti-dumping and patent infringement cases as they feel…
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Samsung’s new chip leader calls for restoring competitiveness
It is urgent to restore Samsung Electronics Co.’s competitiveness in the semiconductor business, the chip division’s new head said in…
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Asicland, FADU to jointly develop eSSD controller
South Korean semiconductor design house Asicland Co. said on Thursday it signed a $19 million contract with the domestic fabless…
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SoftBank-backed Tridge in trouble amid Korean startup doom
(Captured from Tridge website) Tridge Co., South Korea’s first agricultural product and food trading platform operator invested by SoftBank Group…
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Samsung confirms strong Q2 profit on brisk AI chip sales
Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor manufacturing facility (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday reported 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion)…
