The United States has included so-called guardrail provisions regarding subsidies under the CHIPS Act. Although limited investment in semiconductor facilities in China has been allowed, there are also concerns that foreign chipmakers’ semiconductor production and sales in China will soon reach their
TiumBio Co., an R&D-focused clinical-stage biotechnology company based in South Korea, today announced the publication of two posters that will be presented during the upcoming 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR 2023), taking place from April 14th in Orlando, Florida.
The renowned Middle East and Africa (MEA) tech event, LG Showcase 2023, has finally returned to the region after a four-year hiatus. The two-day event was held at Al Habtoor City in Dubai and successfully showcased every new LG product being launched in the region this year to an all-time-high crowd
Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), an intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Group, unveiled a specific design concept of a small modular reactor (SMR)-powered ship for the first time among Korean companies.KSOE announced that it is promoting the basic design of a 240
Korea-based global DRAM leaders -- Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix -- are accelerating the commercialization of 3D DRAM, which are said to be a game changer in the memory industry. However, Micron, which ranks third in the DRAM industry, has already begun its 3D DRAM research since 2019, securing t
Samsung Electronics will begin mass production of third-generation 4-nm chips, the main item in the foundry ultra-micro fabrication process sector, during the first half of this year. While stabilizing the yield, which was a problem in the early stages of the process, the Korean semiconductor giant
SK Networks has made a major investment in an artificial intelligence (AI) startup in the United States. The investment was led by Choi Sung-hwan, president of SK Networks’ business division, who led a global investment briefing session last month.SK Networks announced on March 9 that it had investe
Samsung Electronics hired Lin Jun-cheng as a vice president, a veteran engineer who worked for nearly 19 years at TSMC, Samsung’s archrival in the foundry business. The recruitment of Lin was aimed at speeding up the development of advanced packaging technology, in which the Korean chipmaker is acti
Amid sluggish business performances and an economic recession, U.S.-based big tech companies are restructuring. Samsung Electronics’ U.S. semiconductor subsidiary Device Solutions Americas (DSA) also recently laid off employees.According to industry sources in Silicon Valley on March 7 (local time),
Hyundai Engineering announced on Feb. 28 that it had a discussion with the government of Alberta in Canada, on a small module reactor (SMR) construction project.Hong Hyun-seong, CEO of Hyundai Engineering discussed how to achieve Alberta’s “zero emission” goal with Brian Jean, minister of jobs, econ
The business performances of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix subsidiaries in China deteriorated significantly in 2022 due to U.S. sanctions against China and the impact of the COVID-19. To make matters worse, the U.S. government recently announced that it would set a technological limit to prevent
Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced on Feb. 26 that it has developed an automotive semiconductor substrate applicable to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and will expand its lineup of high-end automotive semiconductor substrates. The newly developed flip chip ball grid array (FCBGA) is a s
South Korean display manufacturers need to accelerate their development of more advanced OLED displays, with Chinese companies rapidly following them in the OLED display market, an industry analyst said in Seoul on Feb. 21.Kang Min-su, an analyst of Omdia, a technology research company, presented a
The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on Feb. 19 that the number of super-giant AI-related patent applications in the United States, Japan, China, Europe and South Korea increased approximately 28-fold from 2011 to 2020. Specifically, the number was 530 in 2011 and 14,848 in 2020.The Uni
Attention is focusing on the 200 million pixel image sensor of Samsung Electronics’ new flagship Galaxy S23 Ultra. The company said that the image sensor, Isocell HP2, provides the best picture quality at the pixel level.The sensor is equipped with 200 million 0.6 micrometer pixels. Samsung Electron
The advent of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is providing opportunities for Korean memory semiconductor makers to create a new business. ChatGTP learns a lot of data through super-large artificial intelligence (AI) and answers questions naturally. DRAM data processing speed has be
South Korea’s silicon wafer imports from Japan totaled US$202.9 million in the fourth quarter of last year, down 26.66 percent from a year ago. This is because Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix reduced their imports with business conditions deteriorating.The two companies are showing a rapid increase
SK bioscience announced on Feb. 8 that the company’s board of directors has officially decided to initiate the establishment of the ‘Songdo Global Research & Process Development (R&PD) Center.’The R&PD Center will be built on a 30,413.8 square meter site in Songdo, Incheon, with a total investment o
The authors are analysts of Shinhan Securities. They can be reached at jhwon@shinhan.com and snowKH@shinhan.com, respectively. -- Ed.4Q22 review: Earnings in line with market consensusJeisys Medical posted consolidated operating profit of KRW9.1bn (+35.9% YoY, operating margin of 28.6%) on sales of
Feb. 8 marks the 40th anniversary of the "Tokyo Declaration," when Lee Byung-chul, the late founder of Samsung Group and grandfather of Samsung Electronics' chairman Lee Jae-ong, announced in Tokyo a plan to enter the semiconductor business.On Feb. 8, 1983, the late Samsung founder called Hong J