In 2024, South Korea's top-100 companies generated an estimated KRW1,615 trillion (US$1.16 trillion) in total economic contribution, up more than KRW60 trillion from the previous year. Topping the list was Samsung Electronics, whose contribution reached KRW157.5 trillion, solidifying its position as the country's most impactful enterprise for the second consecutive year.
Strong demand in the memory market is expected to keep NAND Flash prices at elevated levels in the second half of 2025, according to Khein Seng Pua, CEO of Taiwan-based NAND flash controller chip supplier Phison Electronics. Speaking with DIGITIMES, Pua noted that while the pace of NAND price increases may ease, suppliers remain firmly resistant to price cuts.
Huawei's new in-house constructed AI system, the CloudMatrix 384 supernode, integrated with its new AI accelerator and a rack-scale architecture based on the Ascend 910C processor, is capable of directly competing with Nvidia's flagship GB200 NVL72 cluster, according to a report by semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis.
