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Industry predictions suggest Samsung Electronics will significantly expand its HBM production capabilities with substantial equipment investment. This intensifies the industry leadership competition with SK Hynix, which is entering mass production of its fifth-generation HBM3E product in the first half of this year.
BusinessKorea
South Korea unveiled plans by leading firms such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to spend more than US$470 billion establishing the world's largest chipmaking cluster, joining a global race to safeguard domestic supply.
Bloomberg
South Korea's memory-chip exports increased in October for the first time in 16 months, offering more evidence for the revival of demand for the country's most important products.
Bloomberg
The Korean maker says it hasn't worked with Huawei since sanctions.
Bloomberg
SK Telecom, South Korea's dominant mobile carrier and sibling of chipmaker SK hynix, has declared that 5G was over-hyped, has under-delivered, and has failed to deliver a killer app.
The Register
Seoul has signalled it will not intervene to stop South Korean companies Samsung and SK Hynix from filling in a market gap after China imposed a ban on US chipmaker Micron, in an escalation of the tech battle between the superpowers.
The Financial Times
SK Hynix has divided its procurement team for the first time, a move meant to strengthen the purchasing of components and equipment used in the back end of chip production.
Thelec
Since the beginning of this year, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have been receiving a surge in orders for high bandwidth memories (HBM).
BusinessKorea
The company's move is in sharp contrast to those of its rivals such as TSMC, Intel, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix, which all declared a reduction of their investments.
BusinessKorea
US chip toolmaker KLA will cease offering some supplies and services from Wednesday to China-based customers including South Korea's SK Hynix in compliance with recent US regulations, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
Reuters
SK Hynix aims to select a US site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter of next year, two people familiar with the matter said, helping the United States to compete as China pours money into the burgeoning sector.
Reuters
SK Hynix is considering cutting its 2023 capital expenditure by about a quarter to KRW16 trillion (US$12.2 billion) in response to slower electronics demand than anticipated, people familiar with the matter said.
Bloomberg
3M aims to restart PFAS-related manufacturing and continues to make non-PFAS related products at Zwijndrecht, a company spokesman said in an email to EE Times. The timeline to resolve the situation is uncertain and, in several aspects, not under 3M's control, the spokesman said. 3M has communicated with its customers about the potential for disruption.
EE Times
SK Hynix CEO says top shareholder to secure $1.6 billion for M&A in chips, blockchain (Mar 28, 2022)
The CEO of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix said on Monday that its largest shareholder, SK Square, is considering merger and acquisition deals involving chip companies.
Reuters
Rob Crooke, CEO of Solidigm and a 10-year veteran of Intel's memory business, told CRN that while the memory business has been a profitable one for Intel, Intel realized that to get the scale needed to continue to serve customers' growing memory and SSD requirements required a huge investment in scale, and the SK Hynix had the scale necessary.
CRN
SK Hynix has started to mass produce 0.7-micron image sensors, getting into competition with Sony and Samsung Electronics in the global image sensor market.
BusinessKorea
South Korea's SK Hynix said on Wednesday it has received merger clearances from the Chinese antitrust authority for its acquisition of Intel's NAND memory chip business, clearing the way for the world's second-largest memory chip maker to completion of securing regulatory approvals from all eight countries.
Reuters
SK Hynix System IC, a subsidiary of SK Hynix, will close down its M8 plant in Cheongju, Korea in February 2022 and relocate all its equipment to its plant in Wuxi, China by May.
BusinessKorea
Plans by Korea's SK Hynix to overhaul a huge facility in China so it can make memory chips more efficiently are in jeopardy, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, because US officials do not want advanced equipment used in the process to enter into China.
Reuters
SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said on Friday it will acquire South Korea-based Key Foundry, a chip contract manufacturer, for 576 billion won ($492.41 million).
Reuters
SK Hynix is expected to acquire Key Foundry to strengthen its foundry business.
BusinessKorea
The Biden administration is pressuring companies involved in the semiconductor supply chain to be more transparent as the global chips shortage continues to wreak havoc across many industries, officials said.
Bloomberg
SK Hynix plans to turn Intel's NAND memory and storage business into a stand-alone US company that will be owned by the South Korean chipmaker.
CRN
South Korean chip maker SK Hynix has admitted some of its DRAM components included defects, though it says accounts of the issue are overblown.
The Register
Intel and SK Hynix have moved closer to completing their memory and storage business transaction after securing EU approval.
NASDAQ.com
SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, has requestd talks to acquire South Korea-based Key Foundry, a chip contract manufacturer, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday.
Reuters
South Korea said Monday it has granted the final approval to SK Hynix' KRW120 trillion (US$106 billion) project to build a new semiconductor complex, a move that could ease supply shortages in the global market.
Korea Herald
SK hynix will launch consumer solid state drives here for the first time, the company said Monday, as the remote working trend boosted demand for personal storage devices.
The Korea Herald
SK Hynix, the world's No.2 memory chip maker, said it expected inventory build-up by Huawei's competitors in China to boost mobile demand in the current quarter, but its mainstay server demand would remain week.
Reuters
Intel's $9 billion sale of its NAND memory chip unit will help the U.S. chip giant focus on its core business in higher-margin processors, Wall Street analysts said on Tuesday, after its deal with South Korea's SK Hynix.
Reuters
SiFive, a California startup working to commercialize an open-source semiconductor technology, said on Tuesday that it has raised an additional $60 million in funding from investors including SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco.
Reuters
SK Group, South Korea's third-largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it has secured a stake in a chipmaking unit of China's largest electric vehicle (EV) producer BYD.
Yonhap News
South Korea's chipmakers are again on edge over the second round of technology war between the United States and China involving semiconductors, according to industry sources Monday.
The Korea Herald
SK will invest KRW3.2 trillion in the company's Wuxi plant.
The Korea Times
SK hynix will work on reducing semiconductor production costs to respond to growing market uncertainties sparked by the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO Lee Seok-hee said Friday.
The Korea Times
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
ZDNet
Shares in SK hynix traded at an all-time high on Wednesday on expectations that the chipmaking sector is set to improve this year after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of last year.
Yonhap News
SK hynix said Tuesday it will showcase its latest memory chip solutions at the world's largest annual tech show in Las Vegas.
The Korea Herald
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix posted its smallest quarterly profit in three years with a 93% on-year drop in July-September earnings, as prices of memory chips for smartphones continued to decline.
Reuters
South Korea's SK Hynix Inc has started using a high-tech material from a Korean supplier in its chipmaking process, a company official said on Wednesday, shifting away from a Japanese product for the first time.
Reuters
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