Chinese semiconductor companies are seeking to hire Korean engineers in a bid to strengthen their own semiconductor supply chain in response to U.S. sanctions.A Korean headhunting company is looking for semiconductor etching experts for a Chinese company. The job opportunity ad says a well-known for
Contract prices of server DRAM products have begun to fall after staying high for months due to growth of the untact economy following the novel coronavirus outbreak.Market research firm DRAM Exchange said on July 31 that the price of a 32GB DDR4 DRAM for servers posted US$134 in July, down 6.4 perc
Intel’s announcement last week that it will delay the release of a 7nm process-based microprocessor by about six months is expected to negatively affect Samsung Electronics, which is the world’s number-one DRAM and NAND flash memory maker.Intel announced on July 23 (local time) that the release date
ASML of the Netherlands, the world's only producer of EUV exposure equipment saw its net profit in the second quarter of 2020 double from a year ago. Its profits have been growing rapidly thanks to competition between Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Taiwan's TSMC in the micro-fabrication tec
The Bank of Korea announced on July 15 that South Korea’s export price index reached 94.75 last month, up 0.3 percent from the previous month. Previously, the index fell for two months in a row and then rebounded in May.Last month’s increase was led by rebounding international oil prices, which led
DRAM prices have stopped rising after rallying for six months. They are expected to fall again as the volume of orders will decrease beginning the third quarter.The average fixed transaction price of a DDR4 8 Gb DRAM mainly used for PCs was US$3.31 in June, the same as May, market research company D
Samsung Electronics will invest in expanding foundry facilities for CMOS image sensors (CISs).The company is drawing up a detailed plan to convert part of its production lines for DRAMs in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province to CIS lines.In 2018, the company converted part of its DRAM line 11, which is base
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) said on May 26 that its research team has developed a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) that consumes extremely low power but has high speeds of spin direction changes.The research team was led by Dr. Lee Ki-young of the Spin Convergenc
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are on alert as the U.S. government announced on May 15 (local time) that it will limit the supply of semiconductors made with U.S. technology to Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications equipment company.The U.S. Department of Commerce said in a statement that it is ame
Samsung Electronics is expected to rev up efforts to expand its presence in the automotive semiconductor market by partnering with Hyundai Motor. Currently, the global automotive semiconductor market is dominated by NXP of the Netherlands, Renesas of Japan, and Infineon of Germany. Industry insiders
DRAM contract prices surged in April as “untact” or non-face-to-face activities increased amid the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Server demand increased thanks to telecommuting and online classes.The contract prices of DDR4 8 Gigabit (Gb) DRAMs, which are used for personal computers (PCs), averaged
Samsung Electronics has increased semiconductor output by about 40 percent when measured in terms of data unit, while maintaining its wafer input at a level similar to that of the previous year.Samsung Electronics spent 1.86 trillion won for wafer purchases in 2019. In the preceding year, it spent 1
Samsung Electronics predicted that the global smartphone market will contract this year in the wake of the spread of the new coronavirus. On the other hand, it forecast that semiconductor demand would grow on the back of investment in data centers and the expansion of 5G mobile services.Accordingly,
Taiwanese foundry company TSMC's market capitalization has exceeded that of Samsung Electronics again. Samsung Electronics' share price plunged nearly 20 percent in the past month due to concerns about a drop in semiconductor demand because of the COVID-19 outbreak, while TSMC succeeded in b
SK Hynix has passed one of the hurdles to the launch of a next-generation memory.U.S. semiconductor company Synopsys recently announced that it will provide a memory system on chip (SoC) interface solution based on its packaging technology to SK Hynix for manufacturing of the high bandwidth memory (
Korean semiconductor companies are on high alert as COVID-19 spreads. As a workplace shutdown due to employee infections can cause astronomical damage, they are extremely vigilant and stepping up quarantine activities.Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have drastically strengthened their preventive me
Samsung Electronics' operating profit fell sharply last year due to a drop in semiconductor prices, which resulted from a decrease in demand for memory semiconductors. Demand for memory semiconductors, including DRAMs, is expected to grow this year, driven by the diffusion of 5G services and an
Samsung Electronics is expected to apply extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure equipment to next-generation DRAM production lines for the first time this year to streamline its chipmaking process and reinforce competitiveness.Industry watchers say that Samsung Electronics is expected to use EUV exposur
Spot prices of DRAMs are maintaining an uptrend, fueling expectations that fixed transaction prices of DRAMs will begin to rise soon.According to global semiconductor market research company DRAMeXchange on Dec. 26, the average spot price of DDR4 8 Gb products, which are mostly used for PCs, recorde
Micron Technology, the world’s third largest memory semiconductor company in the United States, has officially announced that it will resume trading with Huawei of China in 2020. After six months of preparation, the chipmaker will supply memory semiconductors for smartphones and servers to Huawei.Mi