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Monday 14 September 2026
Sandisk recruits engineers in Korea as memory talent race heats up

Sandisk is making an unusual push into engineering recruitment in South Korea, seeking talent across NAND system architecture, NAND...

Monday 14 September 2026
South Korea broadens espionage law to counter rising tech leaks
South Korea's revised Criminal Act took effect September 13, extending the scope of espionage offenses from acts benefiting North Korea to those benefiting any foreign country or equivalent...
Monday 14 September 2026
LG Display's AI transformation turns employees into AI builders, yielding 450+ in-house projects
LG Display announced on September 13 that it is expanding its company-wide artificial intelligence transformation (AX) initiative by scaling up its "AX SQUAD" program. Designed to...
Monday 14 September 2026
Samsung, Qualcomm deepen 2nm talks as pricing and yield hurdles persist
Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm are expanding discussions over 2nm foundry cooperation, with pricing, yield, and process optimization still unresolved as Samsung seeks to regain a...
Monday 14 September 2026
China's OLED expansion narrows South Korea's auto, IT panel lead
China's OLED supply push is gathering pace, with BOE Technology Group (BOE), TCL China Star Optoelectronic Technology and Visionox rapidly expanding production and closing in on South...
Friday 11 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek vie in AI package substrates
At South Korea's recent KPCA Show 2026, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek showcased their next-generation package substrate technologies. As AI semiconductors evolve toward...
Friday 11 September 2026
SK Hynix raises cash portion of bonuses after 25-vote union rejection

SK Hynix has increased the cash portion of its profit-sharing bonus in a revised tentative wage agreement, after production workers...

Friday 11 September 2026
Samsung 2nm push gains momentum as Synopsys cuts NPU die area by 22%
Synopsys has reported a 22% reduction in die area for a neural processing unit (NPU) implemented with its Fusion Compiler design tool on Samsung Foundry's SF2P process, providing a...
Friday 11 September 2026
Global IC substrate market to surge 32% to US$19.5 billion in 2026 as Taiwan, Korea lead ABF, BT
Rising demand for generative AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data center buildouts is pushing the global IC substrate industry into a new phase marked by upgrades in high-end...
Friday 11 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix eye 2028 High-NA DRAM rollout

SK Hynix is targeting 2028 to apply High-NA extreme ultraviolet lithography to DRAM mass production and is considering joining an industry...

Thursday 10 September 2026
Samsung pushes into display-equipped smart glasses as Meta leads market
Samsung Electronics has begun developing its first smart glasses with an in-lens display, asking Samsung Display in August to develop a microdisplay that meets requirements for form...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Navigating economies of scale: how South Korea and China are reshaping the OLED market
Economies of scale occur when a company's average cost per unit falls as overall production volume increases. In the competitive display industry, reaching this state relies on either...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Elmos locks in SK keyfoundry wafer supply through 2037 as 8-inch capacity tightens

Germany's Elmos Semiconductor has secured wafer capacity from South Korea's SK keyfoundry through 2037, expanding an 18-year manufacturing...

Thursday 10 September 2026
SK Hynix says 3D DRAM will borrow from logic foundry playbook
SK Hynix is signaling a shift in memory design that could matter far beyond South Korea. By adopting logic foundry techniques for 3D DRAM, the company is moving toward a future where...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Korea puts KRW250 billion behind free national AI service as frontier-model fund takes shape
South Korea's science ministry has budgeted KRW250 billion (US$184.6 million) for 2027 to run "AI for all," a state-funded program that aims to give every citizen free access to chatbots...