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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…
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Seaweed, dubbed ‘Korea’s black semiconductor,’ powers its economy
Korean food at Lotte Mart’s Gandaria City Mall hypermarket Dried seaweed, widely used to make kimbap, or seaweed-wrapped rice rolls,…
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Samsung, KEPCO to collaborate on power facility tech
Samsung Electronics Co. and Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Friday that they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)…
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SK Hynix mulls HBM production possibility in Japan, US
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won SK Hynix Inc. is investigating the possibility of building a plant for high-bandwidth memory (HBM),…
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Samsung to unveil QLC-based NAND in H2 to lead AI storage market
Samsung’s ninth-generation V9 NAND unveiled in April 2024 Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to unveil a…
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South Korean startups’ Tokyo fever sizzles
Korean startup finalists at D.Day in Tokyo on May 16 (Courtesy of D.Camp) Despite the recent Line-Yahoo cacophony, South Korean…
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Record $259 bn yet to find investment targets in South Korea
Hana Bank’s trading floor in Seoul on April 16, 2024 (File photo by Lim Dae-chul) South Koreans parked a record…
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OCI eyes acquisition of US biopharmaceutical company
Lee Woo-hyun, chairman of OCI Holdings, speaks during a press conference on May 14 (Courtesy of OCI) OCI Holdings Co.,…
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Samsung aims to overtake TSMC, Apple with 3 nm Exynos W1000 chip
Samsung Exynos processor chipset Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to apply its latest 3-nanometer chip processing…
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DeepX attracts $80 mn new investment
DeepX, South Korea’s homegrown neural network and AI chip developer, announced on Friday that it finalized attracting an investment of…
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SK Hynix aims to expand AI memory leadership with new NAND chip
SK Hynix’s new NAND flash product ZUFS 4.0 South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. aims to expand its memory leadership in…
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Korea’s Koh Young to launch brain surgery robot in US in 2025
The Kymero, Koh Young’ neurosurgical robot (Courtesy of Koh Young) Koh Young Technology Inc., a South Korean developer of 3D…
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SK Hynix to sell 50% stake in Wuxi foundry unit to China state firm
SK Hynix Wuxi (Courtesy of SK Hynix) SK Hynix Inc. will sell a nearly half stake in its foundry unit…
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Samsung sets up team to win AI chip deal from Nvidia
(Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, established a team for a billions-of-dollars high-bandwidth memory…
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Sapeon to supply NPI IP to Telechips
Sapeon Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) chip subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Telecom Co., announced on Friday that it will…
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Jusung Engineering to spin off major units
South Korea’s Jusung Engineering Co. plans to spin off its semiconductor, solar, and display equipment businesses and transform into a…
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OECD sharply revises up S.Korea GDP forecast after strong Q1
Containers are stacked to be loaded on ships in a port in South Korea The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
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Naver, SoftBank to discuss Japan JV’s ownership change
Line is the most popular chat app in Japan South Korea’s top online portal Naver Corp. and Japan’s SoftBank Corp.…
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Malaysia, OCI’s base to beat Chinese polysilicon rivals
OCIM staff checks facilities at its polysilicon factory on April 25, 2024, in Sarawak, Malaysia (By Woo-Sub Kim) SARAWAK, Malaysia…
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Samsung’s Jay Y. Lee visits Zeiss to reinforce EUV ties
Jay Y. Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics (second from left), poses for a photo during his visit to Zeiss…
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HD Hyundai Marine IPO sees strong demand from retail investors
US energy giant Chevron’s liquefied natural gas carrier to be renovated by HD Hyundai Marine Solution (Courtesy of HD Hyundai…
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Machine tool maker DN Solutions kicks off IPO process
DN Solutions products (Screenshot captured from the company website).png DN Solutions Co., the world’s third-largest machine tool maker, has kicked…
