SK hynix has successfully attracted trillions of won in funds in its corporate bond demand forecast, achieving a successful fundraising campaign.According to investment banking industry sources on April 1, SK hynix (AA) successfully raised a total of 2.86 trillion won (approximately US$2.11 billion)
In the past 2-3 weeks, a shortage of enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), a NAND flash memory product, has been observed. This is due to the AI boom and the subsequent construction of data centers by global big tech companies, with a particularly explosive increase in demand for storage devices nee
The author, Hyungcho Chung, is the founder and CEO of Scomot -- Ed.We might think that data storage is something that has come about in the tech age of the past few decades. This simply isn’t the case. We have been storing data for centuries, allowing us to process information, keep records and comm
Amid the global AI boom, there are forecasts suggesting that the revival of memory exports in South Korea could potentially boost the first-quarter performance of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.According to Bloomberg Intelligence, a research institution under Bloomberg, Senior Analyst Masahiro Wak
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Pulmuone has expressed its determination to grow into the global number one “sustainable food company.”On March 28, the company held the “2024 Pulmuone Open Shareholders’ Meeting” at the Science and Technology Convention Center in the Gangnam district of Seou
The AI semiconductor market, currently concentrated on Nvidia and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), is expected to diversify into DRAM and other areas moving forward.On March 28, Kwon Seok-jun, a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, participated in the 2024 ACE Semi
Samsung Electronics has introduced a sample version of its next-generation graphics DRAM, GDDR7. Graphics DRAM, along with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), is considered a profitable product in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) memory lineup.According to industry sources on March 28, Samsung Electronics
Kwon Eon-oh, vice president of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Product Innovation (PI) at SK hynix, stated on March 28 that “the next-generation HBM not only has to excel in functionality as a given but also needs to evolve into a form that can play roles beyond memory, offering differentiated specialty
Kwak Noh-jeong, president and CEO of SK hynix, announced on March 27 that the order volume for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will remain “tight” until next year, adding that “this year, the proportion of HBM in the total DRAM sales volume will rise to a double digit percentage, which will help profita
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, visited Samsung Electronics’ booth at the GTC 2024 event in San Jose, California, on March 20 (local time) and left a handwritten signature on the 5th generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3E) on display, which has been positively interpreted by industry insiders. Followi
Investment in 12-inch (300 mm) fab (semiconductor production plant) equipment is expected to surpass US$100 billion by 2025 and reach US$137 billion by 2027.The International Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Association (SEMI) reported on March 20 in its “300 mm Fab Outlook” that investment in
Samsung Electronics, which lost its lead to SK hynix in the high bandwidth memory (HBM) market, which is becoming known as the AI semiconductor market, has drawn its sword for a counterattack.The company plans to shake up the AI semiconductor market by launching a new concept of "AI accelerator" (a
Thanks to the booming export of Hallyu content such as dramas, movies, and webtoons, South Korea’s trade balance in intellectual property rights achieved its largest annual surplus in history last year.According to statistics released by the Bank of Korea (BOK) on March 20, the provisional trade bal
SK hynix has strengthened its dominance in the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) market by becoming the first to mass-produce the 5th generation HBM, HBM3E DRAM, and supply it to the American semiconductor company Nvidia, following its success with HBM3.On March 19, SK hynix announced that it would supply
LG Electronics is expanding its content ecosystem beyond household appliances to mobility by installing its own OTT service, LG Channel, into Hyundai and Kia vehicles.According to the electronics industry on March 18, LG Electronics started the LG Channel service in Hyundai and Kia vehicles from Jan
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are expected to have a production capacity of over 100,000 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) units by the end of this year. The two companies are set to ramp up their HBM production more aggressively than the previous year, signaling a fiercer market competition.According
SK hynix Inc. announced today that it has begun volume production of HBM3E1, the newest AI memory product with ultra-high performance, for supply to a customer from late March. The company made public its success with the HBM3E development just seven months ago.SK hynix being the first provider of H
For the fourth consecutive month, semiconductor exports have shown double-digit growth rates, leading the charge in exports. With increases in exports across various components such as displays and computer/peripheral devices, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector as a whole is s
As the production timeline for the next-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) approaches, announced by major memory semiconductor companies, these companies are ramping up efforts to improve yield rates.According to industry sources on March 12, major memory semiconductor companies like Samsung Ele
A court has issued a non-compete injunction against a former HBM researcher from SK hynix who moved to an executive position at Micron, a competitor in the United States. The decision was made to prevent potential damage from the leakage of SK hynix’s core technologies. SK hynix holds a dominant mar