The Korean Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) revealed in its report titled “Global Non-Memory Semiconductor Market Landscape and Policy Implications” on Sept. 3 that last year Korea’s market share in the global non-memory semiconductor sector was a mere 3.3%, which is only one-third
A TV war has heated up between two Korean home appliance giants – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics – at IFA 2023, Europe’s largest consumer electronics and information technology show. While the two Korean TV giants are leading the premium TV market with their strong technological competitiven
SK on, a subsidiary of SK innovation battery, has successfully co-developed an oxide-based solid electrolyte with the world’s highest lithium-ion conductivity.On Aug. 31, SK on announced that the research results on the oxide-based solid electrolyte, co-developed with Professor Park Hee-Jung’s resea
Global glass manufacturing company Corning, which has an annual revenue of 20 trillion won (US$15.09 billion), is expanding its thin glass production hub in South Korea. Thin glass is gaining attention in the mobile industry as an essential component for foldable phones. This move is seen as a choic
Korea’s display companies are in a hot race with those of China to preempt the market for inorganic light-emitting diode (iLED) displays, touted as a future growth driver. Korea is considered to be lagging behind China in the iLED display market.The market for micro LED panels grew to US$27 million
The Korean government sees eye to eye with major Korean semiconductor giants, including Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, regarding developing advanced packaging technology for semiconductors.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) announced on Aug. 29 that it signed an agreement with sem
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According to industry sources on Aug. 28, the automotive semiconductor market, which has been a market centered on low-end products in a multi-product, low-volume production system, is rapidly emerging as a source of demand for high-performance semiconductors in the trend of strengthening autonomous
Forecasts indicate that China’s OLED shipments for smartphones will surpass South Korea’s by 2025.According to the “3rd Quarter OLED Market Track” report published by market research firm UBI Research on Aug. 28, the current market share of smartphone OLED shipments for South Korea and China stands
Amid increasing global gaming demand, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are intensifying their efforts to penetrate the “Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR)” market, a type of high-performance DRAM dedicated to graphics.According to a report from U.S.-based market research firm Industry Growth Insights
With Nvidia, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company, announcing surprising financial results, warmth is spreading among domestic semiconductor companies. This is due to the fact that Samsung Electronics and SK hynix hold a dominant position in the high bandwidth memory (HBM) ma
SK bioscience, an innovative vaccine and biotech company committed to promoting human health from prevention to cure, announced today that the company has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vaxxas, an Australian biotechnology company developing a unique vaccine patch platform technology, to
As the demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) led to an increase in global semiconductor sales this quarter, Samsung Electronics maintained its top position in the DRAM market share. SK hynix pushed out U.S.-based Micron to reclaim its second-place ranking.According to market research firm TrendFor
Kim Byung-gu, the head of LG Display’s automotive business group and executive vice president, unveiled LG Display’s OLED displays designed for automotive use and introduced the entire portfolio of premium brands involved in automotive production and development for the first time at IMID 2023, whic
A slow recovery in demand for NAND flash memory compared to DRAM has put the semiconductor industry, including Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, into a hard spot. This is because the growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry leading to the improved profitability of DRAM is begetting a nega
Samsung Electronics has established a research and development (R&D) organization in Silicon Valley in the United States with the aim of enhancing its competitiveness in next-generation semiconductors. This decision is seen as a response to the growing uncertainties caused by economic downturns and
The semiconductor industry’s race to develop next-generation memory solutions, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM), processing-in-memory (PIM), and compute express link (CXL), sees two front runners in Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. In particular, as demand for HBM3 for AI has increased faster
The market for Micro Light Emitting Diode (microLED) panels, emerging as a next-generation display, is a domain where the domestic display industry, which is even being chased by Chinese companies in the OLED sector, can showcase a dominant market share in the future based on their advanced technolo
Nvidia, which leads the global artificial intelligence (AI) chip market, is expected to introduce a new advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) that will boost AI performance, fueling the expansion of the advanced memory chip market led mainly by Korean companies. SK hynix and Samsung will be able t
An outlook has emerged predicting a narrowing of the market share gap between SK hynix and Samsung Electronics in the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) market.HBM is a technology that boosts functionality by vertically stacking multiple DRAM modules. This innovation is integrated into Graphics Processing