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Friday 4 September 2026
South Korea taps chip windfall for next tech push
South Korea is turning a semiconductor-driven tax windfall into a broader technology investment push, directing record fiscal firepower toward chips, Nvidia's Vera Rubin computing...
Friday 4 September 2026
Samsung turns to chips, OLED for next phase of Vietnam expansion
Samsung is expanding its Vietnam footprint beyond smartphones, with semiconductor testing, high-end chip substrates, OLED displays and R&D emerging as the next pillars of its presence...
Friday 4 September 2026
Micron reportedly targets 2× HBM capacity by end-2026; Samsung, SK Hynix keep the scale edge
Micron is reportedly preparing to roughly double its high-bandwidth memory capacity by the end of 2026, targeting about 100,000 wafers a month while sharply increasing 12-high HBM4...
Friday 4 September 2026
LB Semicon starts Qualcomm shipments as DDI dependence fades
South Korean OSAT player LB Semicon has begun shipments to Qualcomm Inc., marking a key step in its effort to move beyond a business structure long centered on display driver ICs (DDI)...
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: South Korea's safety AI moves from watching danger to acting on it
At first glance, many of the technologies spread across the K-Safety Expo 2026 show floor in Busan looked familiar: CCTV cameras, industrial sensors, warning lights and control panels...
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Inside Korea's push to make safety smarter, faster, more predictive
K-Safety Expo 2026 opened at BEXCO Exhibition Center 1 in Busan on September 2. An hour-long opening ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. brought together South Korean government officials,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
SK Hynix weighs Kioxia production tie-up in Japan
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won has raised the possibility of jointly producing semiconductors with Japan's Kioxia, taking SK Hynix's exploration of a Japanese manufacturing base a...
Thursday 3 September 2026
CXMT's 'Hefei Project' exposed in Samsung DRAM theft case
South Korean prosecutors allege that Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) set up an internal "Hefei Project" in 2016 to obtain Samsung Electronics' core DRAM technology...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics eyes 30% MLCC price hikes, ABF up too
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) is set to expand the scope of its price increases, with market reports saying the company will raise direct-supply prices for multilayer ceramic capacitors...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Thailand AiPASS unlocks premium AI after lessons
Thailand has launched its TH-AI Passport and core AiPASS platform, taking a different path from South Korea's national AI push by buying access to overseas commercial AI tools such...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix inventories surge as valuation reserves fall
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix ended the first half of 2026 holding sharply more inventory than six months earlier, an unusual development in a memory market where demand continues...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Safety rewired: AI, robots on the front line at K-Safety Expo 2026
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics discloses major MLCC supply deal tied to AI server demand
Samsung Electro-Mechanics disclosed on September 1 that it has concluded a single sales and supply contract worth KRW1.072 trillion (about US$778.9 million) for MLCCs, equal to 9.5%...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026 to open in Busan, spotlighting AI-driven safety technologies
K-Safety Expo 2026, South Korea's leading dedicated safety-industry exhibition, will open September 2 at BEXCO in Busan, bringing together companies, government agencies, research...