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South Korea's southwest chip hub plan faces supplier gap

, DIGITIMES, Taipei
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Credit: MOTIE data submitted to Rep. Koo Ja-keun, cited by Chosun Ilbo; compiled by DIGITIMES Asia, July 2026.

South Korea's plan to build a KRW800 trillion (approx. US$51 billion) memory fab cluster in the southwestern Honam region is running into an inconvenient fact: the region has the country's weakest base of semiconductor materials, components, and equipment...

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