In October last year, the U.S. government banned semiconductor equipment export to China to block China’s rise in the semiconductor industry, and then American companies such as Lam Research and KLA-Tencor as well as Applied Materials, the largest player in the industry, stopped doing business with
China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) plans to start volume production of 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips in the fourth quarter of this year, according to DigiTimes, an IT industry daily published in Taiwan.This is bad news for Korean NAND producers because NAND prices have already droppe
China’s scheme to foster its semiconductor industry has been going awry. The Chinese semiconductor industry is having trouble reaching its goals in both the memory sector, which is dominated by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix of Korea, and the non-memory sector where the United States has begun to
China is aiming to raise its self-sufficiency ratio in the semiconductor industry to at least 70 percent by 2025. Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. (JHICC), which has been playing a critical role in the efforts, has recently given up on DRAM development after UMC, a Taiwanese foundry that develop
As Samsung Electronics's earnings shock shows that the memory semiconductor business has shifted into a downturn, semiconductor industry experts forecast that Chinese memory makers will slow down their aggressive investment drive. Some expect that China's memory mass-production will be postp
South Korea's semiconductor companies with memory semiconductors achieved the highest performances in a super-cycle which began in earnest in 2017.However, corporate customers' complaints spiked due to continuous hikes in prices of DRAMs and NAND flashes. In particular, Chinese smartphone makers suc