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Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung, SK hynix race to make Gwangju memory hub operational within four years
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are set to anchor a KRW800 trillion (US$532.4 billion) semiconductor cluster at the former Gwangju military airport site in South Korea. Industry experts...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Samsung's Honam semiconductor investment faces union pushback as 80% oppose project
As Samsung Electronics pushes ahead with a major semiconductor investment project in South Korea's Honam region, including Gwangju and South Jeolla Province, labor-management relations...
Thursday 16 July 2026
Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
SK Hynix reportedly starts ordering equipment for Yongin fab, plans 20,000 wafers a month

SK Hynix has begun placing orders with major suppliers for advanced DRAM manufacturing equipment for the first phase of its Yongin...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
South Korean court bars former Samsung NAND designers from working for SK Hynix
A South Korean court has partially granted Samsung Electronics' request to prevent two former NAND flash design employees from working for rival SK Hynix or its affiliates until April...
Wednesday 15 July 2026
US becomes top helium source for Taiwan, South Korea and Japan as Qatari supply falters

The US has become the leading source of helium and other noble gases for Taiwan, South Korea and Japan as disruptions to Qatari production...

Wednesday 15 July 2026
South Korea moves to secure power for new chip cluster

South Korea is accelerating plans to supply electricity to a new semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest by 2030, potentially...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
South Korea exports top US$100B in a month, stoking chip dependence fears

South Korea's exports surpassed US$100 billion in a single month for the first time in June 2026, raising expectations that the country...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Samsung brings HBM, logic, and optics together in packaging push
Samsung Electronics is developing advanced packaging technology that combines high-bandwidth memory (HBM), logic chips and silicon photonics (SiPh) as it seeks to address the rising...
Monday 13 July 2026
Samsung develops glass interposer as TSMC expands packaging capacity

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are jointly developing a next-generation glass interposer that could lower the cost of packaging...

Monday 13 July 2026
Samsung targets 2029 Yongin fab opening as infrastructure timetable tightens
Samsung Electronics plans to begin operations at its first Yongin fab in 2029, one to two years ahead of the original schedule, increasing pressure on South Korea to accelerate the...
Monday 13 July 2026
SK Group chair: US investment plan will far exceed US$35B

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said the South Korean conglomerate is preparing a US investment plan that would far exceed US$35 billion—the...

Sunday 12 July 2026
InP supply crunch leaves South Korea exposed
Coherent has agreed to prepay AXT US$22.3 million under a three-year agreement for committed 6-inch indium phosphide substrate capacity, showing how buyers are moving to reserve future...
Sunday 12 July 2026
South Korean startup CSO eyes global Earth observation market as optical payload heads for orbit
South Korean space optics startup CSO is preparing to launch its high-resolution optical payload aboard DaejeonSat, a domestically developed CubeSat scheduled to lift off on South...
Saturday 11 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix margins seen near Micron's 80% level as memory prices surge

Global memory chipmakers are heading toward record revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as AI infrastructure demand keeps...