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Hyosung to sell its specialty gas unit for $943 mn to Korean PEs
Hyosung Vina Chemicals’ facilities in Vietnam (Courtesy of Hyosung Chemical) South Korea’s Hyosung Group is poised to sell a 100%…
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Doosan Robotics to delist, wholly own cash-cow Doosan Bobcat
Doosan Group Chairman Park Jung-won (center) visits Doosan Robotics’ booth during the CES 2024 event in January Doosan Enerbility Co.,…
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Samsung wins 2nm AI chip foundry, package order from Japan
Choi Siyoung, Samsung Electronics’ foundry chief, gives a keynote speech at Samsung Foundry Forum 2024 in Seoul on July 9…
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HBM chip war intensifies as SK Hynix on hunt for Samsung talent
SK Hynix’s advanced chipset South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., just like its global peers, has largely designed and produced…
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Kospi on upward run; individual investors turn bearish
The Kospi index edged down 0.16% to close at 2,857.76 on Monday South Korean individual investors have bet strongly on…
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Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won visits Absolics’ factory in the US state of Georgia on July 7, 2024 (Courtesy of…
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Samsung’s Q2 profit soars on AI chips; second-half outlook rosy
Samsung’s NQ8 AI Gen3 processor South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday flagged a more than 15-fold increase…
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Samsung launches dedicated HBM, advanced chip packaging teams
A researcher at a Samsung Electronics chip cleanroom Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has officially launched a…
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SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO
SK Square taps its Chief Financial Officer Han Myung-jin as new CEO (Courtesy of SK) South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate…
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LG Elec selected as Volkswagen’s top supplier
LG Electronics Inc. was named the top supplier by Germany’s Volkswagen Group. According to industry sources on Thursday, LG Electronics…
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Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea
A bird’s-eye view of Doosan Tesna’s new chip-testing plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province (Courtesy of Doosan Group) South Korea’s Doosan…
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SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips
SK Group’s headquarters in Seoul SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion)…
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South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war
EDA is becoming a crucial tech for AI chip manufacturing (Courtesy of Getty Images) In an escalating war to win…
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Samsung to send chips into space via Nuri rocket
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Friday that it signed an agreement with the domestic micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc.…
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Samsung Electronics unveils new smartphone image sensors
Samsung Electronics new image sensors (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co. has developed new image sensors — ISOCELL HP9,…
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Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the…
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Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers
Hanmi Semiconductor CEO & Vice Chairman Kwak Dong Shin showcases its product on April 7, 2022, at its headquarters in…
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SK Ecoplant seeks to absorb SK Materials’ industrial gas units
SK Group’s headquarters in Seoul SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean construction engineering and waste management company, is seeking to…
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LG Innotek eyes $1.4 bn in automotive sensor sales by 2030
LG Innotek employees show high-performance LiDAR sensors (left and right) and a heating camera module (Courtesy of LG Innotek) LG…
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SK asks KDB for more funds before drastic restructuring
SK Group headquarters building SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest business group in terms of total assets, has asked the country’s…
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Taihan Cable wins $94 bn power grid project in US
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution Co. announced on Tuesday that it has consecutively won three power grid projects in…
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Uniqconn raises $7 mn in Series A round
South Korea’s system semiconductor startup Uniqconn announced on Tuesday that it attracted 10 billion won ($7.24 million) in Series A…
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SK’s Chey rebuts court’s value estimate on SK unit for divorce
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won bows deeply in apology for causing inconvenience through personal matters on June 17 (Courtesy of…
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SK Hynix patents-owned Mimir IP files complaint against Micron
A smartphone with a Micron logo is placed on a computer motherboard Mimir IP, a South Korea-based patent management company,…
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Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024
Samsung Foundry Forum 2024 took place in San Jose on June 12 SAN JOSE — Samsung Electronics Co. will launch three-dimensional…
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Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
Samsung’s foundry business chief Choi Si-young unveils a new chipmaking tech at Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2024 in San Jose…
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LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek at CES 2023 LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, for the first time, is…
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S.Korea beats Japan in GNI per capita for first time in 2023
Stacked containers await loading onto ships at a South Korean port South Korea outstripped Japan in terms of gross national…
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Korea’s exports at 22-month high in May on chips, cars
Container terminals at the Port of Busan, South Korea (File photo, courtesy of News1) South Korea’s exports hit a 22-month…
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Korea’s April factory output rebounds amid weak consumption
Hyundai Motor vehicles are loaded on a car carrier ship for exports at a seaport in Ulsan, South Korea (File…
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Samsung’s new chip head instills a sense of crisis, hope amid HBM gaffe
Samsung’s chip business head and Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun Samsung Electronics Co.’s new semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun knows more than anyone…
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Nvidia beats Tesla to top foreign stock held by Koreans
Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the annual Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center in San…
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SK embarks on business overhaul to focus on mainstays
SK Ecoplant’s headquarters building in Seoul South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group has embarked on a reshuffling process to focus…
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Samsung, AMD likely to collaborate on 3-nanometer GAA tech chipmaking
AMD’s headquarters at Santa Clara, California Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, is expected to expand its partnership…
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South Korea steps on accelerator pedal for record 2024 car exports
Kia vehicles parked at a seaport in Pyeongtaek for exports ASAN, South Chungcheong Province – At Hyundai Motor Co.’s manufacturing…
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More room to rise for SK Hynix stock after bull run
SK Hynix semiconductor plant in South Korea (Courtesy of SK Hynix) SK Hynix Inc.’s market value went through the roof…
