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Thursday 30 April 2026
Korea's 'father of HBM' sees 1,000x AI memory surge as Google's TurboQuant faces real-world tests
Alphabet's Google has unveiled its KV cache quantization compression technology, TurboQuant, promising dramatic reductions in memory usage for AI inference. While the innovation has...
Thursday 30 April 2026
Samsung memory buyers lock in longer deals as 2027 demand comes early

Samsung Electronics executives said major memory customers are seeking longer-term supply commitments and pulling forward demand for...

Thursday 30 April 2026
South Korea's OLED share rebounds to 68.7% in 2025
South Korea's global OLED market share increased by 1.5pp to 68.7% in 2025, marking its first rise in a decade and drawing widespread attention. According to Chosun Biz, the...
Thursday 30 April 2026
SK Group chairman urges Korea-Japan integration to boost bargaining power amid US-China tech rivalry
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won urged South Korea to pursue deep economic integration with Japan to gain strategic influence amid US-China tech tensions, arguing that a larger Korea-Japan...
Thursday 30 April 2026
LG Electronics and Nvidia to explore AI partnership in robotics, data centers, and mobility
South Korea's LG Electronics and US chipmaker Nvidia are exploring a potential partnership spanning robotics, AI data centers, and mobility, signaling how traditional hardware companies...
Thursday 30 April 2026
Samsung SDI narrows loss as General Motors joint venture delay spurs LFP review

Samsung SDI reported a sharply reduced operating loss for the first quarter of 2026 as its US joint venture with General Motors (GM) is...

Wednesday 29 April 2026
Nvidia taps Nanya for AI racks with LPDDR equivalent to 4,500 smartphones per rack
The AI boom is pushing memory demand well beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM). Low-power DRAM is now under pressure too, with shortages emerging as chip developers including Nvidia,...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Samsung fast-tracks Pyeongtaek fabs to turn HBM4 edge into AI memory scale

Samsung is accelerating one of its most aggressive memory capacity buildouts in years, aiming to bring its Pyeongtaek Line 4 fab, or P4,...

Tuesday 28 April 2026
Kakao Mobility launches Level 4 robotaxi, scales AI mobility platform
South Korea's leading mobility platform, Kakao Mobility is accelerating the commercial rollout of Level 4 autonomous driving, placing artificial intelligence at the center of a "physical...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
LG Display posts strongest 1Q26 profit in five years, signals end to job cuts

LG Display reported its strongest first-quarter operating profit in half a decade and signaled an end to years of workforce restructuring,...

Monday 27 April 2026
South Korea and Vietnam deepen tech and supply chain cooperation amid global uncertainty
South Korea and Vietnam have expanded cooperation across technology, energy, and infrastructure, signing dozens of agreements during Korean President Lee Jae-Myung's visit to Hanoi,...
Monday 27 April 2026
South Korea's telecom giants unveil full-stack AI strategies at WIS 2026, highlighting agents, infrastructure, and 6G
South Korea's three leading telecom operators—SK Telecom (SKT), KT, and LG U+—signaled a decisive shift beyond connectivity at the World IT Show (WIS) 2026, held April...
Sunday 26 April 2026
Samsung, Kingston reportedly lift SSD prices by over 10% as supply tightens

Samsung Electronics and Kingston Technology have reportedly notified distributors of price increases of more than 10% across their solid-state...

Friday 24 April 2026
Interview: Taiwan-Korea cooperation not limited to memory giants; Hwaseong City aims to expand alliances
When it comes to Taiwan-Korea semiconductor cooperation, the outside world often focuses on orders and R&D between memory giants such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and TSMC...
Thursday 23 April 2026
SpaceX eyes GPU push as Tesla taps Samsung for chip upgrade

SpaceX is exploring in-house production of graphics processing units (GPUs) as it cites potential chip supply constraints, even as Tesla...