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Friday 5 June 2026

Samsung's biggest union loses majority status after bonus talks

Samsung Electronics is facing a new shift in labor relations after the Samsung Electronics branch of the Samsung Group Super-Enterprise Union reportedly lost its status as a majority...

Friday 5 June 2026

FADU wins new contracts as AI workloads reshape data storage

As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads place unprecedented demands on data storage systems, South Korean SSD controller designer FADU is betting that next-generation storage architecture...

Friday 5 June 2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang to meet South Korean business leaders beyond HBM sector

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea on June 5 for meetings with major Korean business leaders, as the company's cooperation...

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea finalizes US$520 million on-device AI chip budget amid industry doubts

South Korea has finalized the budget for a state-backed on-device AI chip development project at KRW800.23 billion (US$520 million), about KRW200 billion below an earlier proposal,...

Friday 5 June 2026

CXMT's South Korean hiring spree puts Samsung, SK Hynix memory lead on alert

More than 200 South Korean engineers are conservatively estimated to be working at CXMT, China's leading DRAM maker, according to industry sources. Chinese semiconductor companies...

Friday 5 June 2026

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes record sales in Computex debut as HBM4 demand grows

Hanmi Semiconductor is projecting record annual revenue this year, as rising demand for high-bandwidth memory equipment lifts prospects for the South Korean chip-equipment maker and...

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea's only SRAM-CIM IP firm Articron targets edge AI

South Korean semiconductor IP startup Articron is challenging the traditional AI chip design bottleneck by using a memory-centric architecture, with its self-developed SRAM-CIM compute...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Foxconn, SK Group eye deeper AI infrastructure ties in Asia

Foxconn chairman Young Liu met SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on June 3, as the two companies explore broader cooperation in AI servers,...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Samsung's rumored CIS production shift highlights industry debate over fab ownership

Samsung Electronics' decision to place a key image sensor production line under its System LSI division highlights a broader question facing the CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry: whether...

Thursday 4 June 2026

TSMC chairman dismisses rival cluster pushes, says Taiwan's supply chain remains unmatched

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei spoke at a media briefing on June 4, 2026, after the company's shareholders' meeting. South Korea's push to build a semiconductor cluster, Arizona's efforts...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang courts Korean giants in robotics expansion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea this week as the company seeks to expand its partnerships with major Korean conglomerates...

Thursday 4 June 2026

LG Innotek targets Intel EMIB substrate chain with SK Hynix samples

LG Innotek is seeking to enter the supply chain for substrates used in Intel's EMIB advanced-packaging technology, supplying early samples...

Thursday 4 June 2026

HBM4 supply in focus as SK's Chey meets TSMC's Wei

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won met TSMC chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan on June 3, as SK Hynix and TSMC map out future cooperation in HBM4 base dies, advanced logic processes, and custom...

Thursday 4 June 2026

BOE races Samsung for Gen 8.6 OLED title despite low yield

BOE is preparing to hold a mass-production shipment ceremony for its Gen 8.6 IT OLED line in mid-June, positioning the Chinese display...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Chip test equipment makers hit by FPGA, CPU supply crunch

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs...

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