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Tuesday 9 December 2025
SK Hynix secures 39 patents in China to strengthen memory and neuromorphic chip design
SK Hynix and battery subsidiaries within SK Group received approval for 68 core patents in China in November 2025. Many of these patents relate to highly integrated memory designs...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
South Korea AI startups face 56% survival rate, heavily reliant on government funding
South Korea aims to be a leading AI powerhouse, yet a report from the Korea Industrial Technology Association (KOITA) shows that only 56% of its AI startups last over three years...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
South Korea signs MoU with Arm Holdings to establish 'Arm School' for IC design education
The South Korean government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Arm Holdings, the UK-based silicon IP provider, to establish an educational institution tentatively...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
South Korea maps multi-layered EV strategy to secure production, revitalize supply chain, and boost tech edge
South Korea is moving to shore up its electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing base and safeguard technological leadership as global competition stiffens and domestic production risks...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
Samsung moves to narrow gap with TSMC as silicon photonics race heats up
Samsung Electronics is accelerating development of silicon photonics (SiPh) technology in an effort to solve bottlenecks in advanced AI processors and narrow the competitive gap with...
Monday 8 December 2025
SK Hynix restructures global operations amid reported HBM4 production delay
SK Hynix announced a comprehensive organizational restructuring to expand its global research network and reinforce its leadership in the high-bandwidth memory sector. The strategic...
Monday 8 December 2025
Samsung reportedly gains momentum in foundry and memory with improved 4nm yields
Samsung Electronics is reportedly gaining momentum across its foundry and memory operations as higher yields on its 4nm process and a broad recovery in DRAM demand position the company...
Monday 8 December 2025
Weekly news roundup:Intel hires TSMC veteran, Samsung reportedly wins TPU HBM4 order
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of December 1 to December 7, 2025.
Monday 8 December 2025
South Korea's Enforus tapped as POSCO's hydrogen partner for green steel transition
Facing intensifying carbon-reduction pressures, traditional steelmaker POSCO Holdings has partnered with South Korean high-temperature water electrolysis firm Enforus to accelerate...
Sunday 7 December 2025
Taiwan poised to benefit as Japan and Korea shift capacitor output to premium markets
Japanese and Korean passive-component makers are diverting more capacity to high-end capacitors used in AI servers, tightening supply in mainstream electronics, and creating new openings...
Sunday 7 December 2025
South Korea bets on airport GSE to break 90% power chip import lock
South Korea is racing to slash its more than 90% dependence on imported power semiconductors. Industry leaders warn that this reliance threatens the country's competitiveness in electric...
Friday 5 December 2025
Broadcom CEO visits South Korea as Samsung HBM4 reportedly obtains Google TPU certification
Update: Samsung has since reached out to DIGITIMES and denied this report. The company also declined to provide more details.
Friday 5 December 2025
Samsung to command the AI inference market with GDDR7
Samsung Electronics' latest-generation GDDR7 has received the 2025 Korea Technology Awards Presidential Award, and its importance is growing as Nvidia adopts the memory for AI inference...
Friday 5 December 2025
Hanwha Systems develops aerospace-grade transceiver chips for South Korea's military LEO independence
South Korean company Hanwha Systems announced the launch of a project to develop aerospace-grade transceiver chips, representing the first time South Korea has independently developed...
Friday 5 December 2025
BOE reportedly secures Apple's budget iPhone display order
China's BOE Technology has reportedly secured the largest share of display orders for Apple Inc.'s upcoming budget model, the iPhone 17e, even as South Korean rivals Samsung Display...