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Monday 17 August 2026
SK keyfoundry expands 8-inch capacity as China demand strains supply

SK keyfoundry has approved KRW90 billion (approx. US$64 million) in capital spending to expand its 8-inch foundry capacity, a rare...

Monday 17 August 2026
Samsung's China sales overtake US; Nvidia not among top five customers
Samsung Electronics' sales to China and the US surged in the first half of 2026 as an AI-driven memory upcycle boosted its semiconductor business, while Nvidia did not rank among the...
Monday 17 August 2026
LG-Nvidia physical AI partnership speeds up as robotics chief reportedly heads to South Korea

Less than a week after LG Group and Nvidia signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU), Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director...

Monday 17 August 2026
LG, Nvidia step up humanoid push with robot data factory

Nvidia's Madison Huang is set to visit LG Electronics' Yangjae R&D campus in Seoul on August 18 to inspect the company's robot data...

Monday 17 August 2026
Samsung weighs Giheung R&D line for 2nm HBM foundry capacity

Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering repurposing the second line at its next-generation semiconductor R&D complex in Giheung...

Monday 17 August 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek substrate lines near full capacity as AI demand rises

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) and LG Innotek pushed their semiconductor package substrate operations close to full capacity in...

Monday 17 August 2026
OCI thins solar wafers to boost Vietnam output 39%
OCI Holdings is turning to thinner solar wafers to raise output from its Vietnam operations by nearly 40% without adding production lines, as demand from US customers outpaces existing...
Sunday 16 August 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix HBM4 hiring war drains South Korea's chip design talent
South Korea's semiconductor talent shortage is intensifying as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix recruit experienced chip designers for increasingly complex HBM4 products, drawing key...
Sunday 16 August 2026
TV slowdown accelerates panel makers' shift to IT OLED, UBI Research found

With global TV demand slowing and panel prices continuing to fall, display makers are facing intensifying profit pressure. Analysts...

Friday 14 August 2026
South Korea chip cluster could expand to nine fabs as SK plans new investment
South Korea's planned southwestern semiconductor cluster could eventually expand from four fabs to as many as nine as the government accelerates land, power, and infrastructure work...
Friday 14 August 2026
South Korea's memory-chip exports surge 277% as system chips slip

South Korea's semiconductor export boom was heavily concentrated in memory in July. Memory-chip export value surged 276.9% year over...

Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung weighs moving legacy memory backend work to Vietnam to free up capacity for HBM
Samsung Electronics may move part of the general-purpose DRAM and NAND packaging and testing now handled at its Cheonan and Onyang sites in South Korea to Vietnam, potentially freeing...
Friday 14 August 2026
SK Hynix looks beyond memory with new global growth team
SK Hynix has set up a dedicated team to search for growth opportunities beyond its core memory business and has put a senior group executive in charge, a move aimed at turning the...
Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics glass substrate plan slips, with mass production now seen after 2028
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has again delayed its semiconductor glass substrate commercialization schedule after a prototype reportedly failed a customer's reliability review. The setback...
Friday 14 August 2026
China PCB makers pour billions into AI server, HPC, optical markets
Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) makers are stepping up investment in higher-value markets including AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC) and optical communications. Following...