Micron Technology, alongside other leading artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor companies like Intel, has ramped up efforts to challenge industry front runners. According to semiconductor industry sources on Dec. 24, Micron, the third-largest DRAM manufacturer globally, is currently undergoing
In the premium TV product line, Samsung Electronics’ market share in the Mini Light Emitting Diode (LED) TV market has significantly dropped this year. While Samsung, which had an overwhelming market share, experienced a decrease in shipments, Chinese companies like Hisense and TCL increased their s
Samsung Electronics is set to establish an advanced semiconductor packaging research and development (R&D) base in Yokohama, Japan. The company plans to invest 40 billion yen into this area by 2028.The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, along with the city of Yokohama, announced on De
SK hynix is accelerating the development of a new process, “Hybrid Bonding,” to maintain its global leadership in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The industry is closely watching whether SK hynix can continue to lead the specialty memory sector by being the first to apply this dream packaging technolog
Samsung Electronics, once the world’s No. 1 research and development (R&D) company, has slipped to seventh place. The number of Korean companies in the top 2,500 global R&D companies has also dropped.Samsung’s R&D investment in 2022 amounted to 18.435 billion euros (US$20.083 billion), pulling down
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are set to gain from synergy with American Applied Materials (AMAT) and Lam Research following the Dutch company ASML establishing a Research and Development (R&D) center in South Korea, based on market share in the semiconductor equipment industry.According to the s
Samsung Electronics and Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML are set to invest a total of 700 million euros to build a future semiconductor technology research and development (R&D) center in South Korea. The center’s primary goal is to develop ultra-fine manufacturing processes and necessary
Huawei’s launch of a 5G smartphone equipped with a 7-nanometer chip in August sparked immediate calls in the United States for stronger sanctions against China, highlighting the global significance of the U.S.-China tech competition.However, upon closer examination, this U.S.-China tech rivalry also
The author is an analyst for Shinhan Securities. He can be reached at hyon@shinhan.com -- Ed.Seasonal demand from new smartphone release to concentrate in 4QLX Semicon registered operating profit of KRW14.9bn (+91% QoQ) on sales of KRW412.8bn (-9% QoQ) for 3Q23. With its client hit by delays in the
Mirae Asset Global Investments announced on Dec. 5 the listing of two new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Korea Exchange: the “TIGER U.S. Tech TOP10INDXX (H) ETF (472160)” and the “TIGER U.S. Tech TOP10 Bond Mixed ETF (472170).”The TIGER U.S. Tech TOP10INDXX (H) ETF invests in the top 10 market
The government is opening up industrial research and development (R&D) to foreign institutions to discover and develop key technologies in areas vulnerable to becoming weak links in South Korea’s flagship industry value chains, such as “technology critical for leapfrogging,” “next-generation growth-
In the third quarter, as the global NAND flash market saw a slight increase in sales, major companies also reported growth in revenue. Samsung Electronics maintained its lead with the number one market share, while SK hynix climbed from third to second place.Market research firm TrendForce reported
The author is an analyst for Shinhan Securities. He can be reached at jk.ahn@shinhan.com -- Ed.The Bank of Korea (BOK) unanimously decided to leave the base rate unchanged at 3.50% for a tenth consecutive month at the November Monetary Policy Board (MPB) meeting. The number of MPB members open to th
As Nvidia, a leading company in artificial intelligence (AI) chips, is to shorten its new product release cycle to one year, SK hynix is expected to continue its dominance in the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) market. SK hynix has made strides in the HBM market and it is likely to surpass 10 trillion w
SK hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics in the server DRAM market, nearing a 50% market share in the third quarter of this year. This surge is attributed to SK hynix’s leading position in the competition for module-type products, which include the latest standard server DRAM, Double Data Rate 5 (
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a leading DRAM semiconductor company in China, has independently developed and started mass production of LPDDR5 DRAM memory chips. If true, this development puts them just four years behind industry leader Samsung in technology.On Nov. 29, ChangXin Memory announ
As High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), essential for powering generative AI, emerges as the main battleground in the next generation of memory semiconductors, fierce competition is brewing between Samsung Electronics and Micron to snatch the Nvidia orders currently monopolized by SK hynix.On Nov. 28, the T
Coway Co., Ltd., the “Best Life Solution Company,” announced today that its Seoul-based R&D Center, the Coway Environmental Technology Research Institute, has been recognized as an international testing laboratory by the Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (KOLAS) for the 22nd consecutive year.The
SK hynix has narrowed its gap to within 5 percentage points of global number one in the DRAM market Samsung Electronics, buoyed by the surge in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and its strong performance in high bandwidth memory (HBM) and other premium memory semiconductor products. The indus
South Korea’s small and medium-sized semiconductor material, component, and equipment companies are making a bold move by establishing their production facilities within the semiconductor cluster taking shape in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The anticipated tech hub, known as the Yongin Semiconductor C