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Thursday 17 September 2026
Samsung looks to outside suppliers as HBM boom shifts priorities
Samsung Electronics has long benefited from a level of vertical integration few technology companies can match, spanning smartphones, memory, chip design, foundry manufacturing and...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Taiwan, South Korea should stop comparing, says DIGITIMES chairman

As global AI investment continues to expand and US-China geopolitical pressure intensifies, how Taiwan and South Korea can preserve...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
SK Hynix union approves revised pay deal after 25-vote rejection

SK Hynix's production workers' union has approved a revised pay agreement that raises the cash share of employee profit-sharing bonuses,...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
SK Hynix, Intel in talks on US production to ease memory crunch
SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about a potential deal that could give the South Korean company its first memory chip manufacturing operation in the US, as tight supply pushes customers...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Apple reportedly accepts Samsung's 1Q27 memory hike, raising the 2027 smartphone cost floor
Apple's acceptance of sharply higher Samsung Electronics memory prices for early 2027 is putting a number on the cost of the AI boom for smartphones. The reported agreement comes just...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor reportedly lands first back-end foothold at Terafab
Hanmi Semiconductor has reportedly secured an order to supply advanced packaging equipment to Elon Musk's Terafab, marking the first known entry by a South Korean back-end equipment...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
South Korean NPU startups face validation hurdle in push for global sales

South Korea's neural processing unit (NPU) startups are moving from chip development toward commercial deployment, but limited experience...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Intel may lack a price edge over TSMC on SK Hynix HBM base dies

SK Hynix is reportedly considering Intel as an additional manufacturing source for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) base dies beginning with...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Apple's foldable debut set to further widen Samsung Display's OLED lead
Samsung Display could emerge as one of the biggest supply-chain beneficiaries of Apple's entry into foldable smartphones, as the Korean panel maker already accounts for about two-thirds...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI servers are eating MLCC capacity, Chinese suppliers are taking what's left

AI servers are reshaping the global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market. Murata Manufacturing and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO)...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
South Korea updates AI safeguards as Microsoft sets shutdown rules

South Korea is updating its artificial intelligence security guidance as companies deploy AI agents capable of operating with limited...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung's Cheonan plant reallocates packaging capacity from Exynos to HBM
Samsung Electronics is accelerating the restructuring of its semiconductor packaging footprint. Its Cheonan facility is gradually phasing out packaging operations for the Exynos mobile...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix diverge on cell design for sub-10nm DRAM in 2028

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to move DRAM below the 10nm threshold in 2028, with the two memory makers pursuing different...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
HS Hyosung joint venture to invest KRW1.2 trillion in Ulsan silicon anode plant

HS Hyosung Energy Solution Korea, a joint venture formed by South Korea's HS Hyosung Group and Belgian materials leader Umicore, signed...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI's next bottleneck may be profitability, not compute, SK chair warns
For years, as the heat surrounding AI continued to build, competitiveness across the industry was largely measured by brute-force computing power. The broader infrastructure race was...