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Korean chipmakers
HBM chip war intensifies as SK Hynix hunts for Samsung talent
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., just like its global peers, has largely designed and produced semiconductors in-house, including high-bandwidt...
8 HOURS AGO
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Electric vehicles
Humax, HeyCharge collaborate on EV charger
South Korea's mobility solutions company Humax Co. announced on Monday that it partnered with the Germany-based electric vehicle (EV) charging techn...
12 HOURS AGO
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Earnings
LG Elec logs record Q2 earnings on home appliances, car parts
South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc. is expected to log its record second-quarter revenue and operating profit thanks to robust sales of home a...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
Samsung’s Q2 profit soars on AI chips; second-half outlook rosy
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday flagged a more than 15-fold increase in its second-quarter operating profit as the artific...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes $1.5 billion sales in 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor Co., South Korea’s leading chip packaging equipment manufacturer, has revised upwards its annual sales target for this yea...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung launches dedicated HBM, advanced chip packaging teams
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has officially launched a team dedicated to developing advanced high-bandwidth ...
Jul 05, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Leadership & Management
SK Square to ramp up chip investment with new CEO
South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group said on Thursday that its investment arm SK Square Co., led by new CEO Han Myung-jin, will ramp ...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Doosan Tesna to invest $160 mn in chip testing plant in Korea
South Korea’s Doosan Tesna Inc. will build a semiconductor testing factory in the country with an investment of 220.6 billion won ($159.7 mill...
Jul 04, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
LG Electronics acquires Athom to facilitate AI smart home push
South Korea’s home appliance giant LG Electronics Inc. said on Wednesday it has acquired Athom B.V., a Netherlands-based home automation compa...
Jul 03, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Artificial intelligence
Korea's LG Uplus aims for $1.4 bn in B2B AI sales by 2028
South Korea’s leading mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp., which is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence chip by the end of this year, ai...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
Samsung Electronics tops in S.Korea's after-sales service
Samsung Electronics Service, a service subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., announced on Tuesday that it topped all categories - home applia...
Jul 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Group, led by SK Hynix, to invest $77 billion in AI, chips
SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate after Samsung, is investing 106.4 trillion won ($77 billion) in artificial intelligence an...
Jul 01, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
South Korea sets sights on fostering EDA tech to win HBM chip war
In an escalating war in the semiconductor industry, insiders know there’s one technology critical for gaining chip supremacy: Electronic desig...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Aerospace & Defense
Samsung to send chips into space via Nuri rocket
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Friday that it signed an agreement with the domestic micro-satellite startup Nara Space Technology Inc. to develop i...
Jun 28, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung seeks $3.6 billion in loans from KDB for chip investment
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. seeks to borrow as much as 5 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from the state-run Korea Development Bank t...
Jun 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
SK Inc. in talks to sell Pharmteco’s US CDMO plant to Novo Nordisk
SK Inc., the holding and investment company of SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, is negotiating to sell a major asset of it...
Jun 25, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Booming AI industry boosts chip packaging equipment makers
Global chip packaging equipment manufacturers are enjoying surging demand and skyrocketing share prices thanks to the rapid growth of the artificial...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte Home Shopping to enter health functional food market
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it plans to establish a joint venture, The Edition Health, with H.Pio, a specialized heal...
Jun 24, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Uniqconn raises $7 mn in Series A round
South Korea's system semiconductor startup Uniqconn announced on Tuesday that it attracted 10 billion won ($7.24 million) in Series A roundThe fun...
Jun 18, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung to launch 3D HBM chip packaging service in 2024
SAN JOSE -- Samsung Electronics Co. will launch three-dimensional (3D) packaging services for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) within the year, a te...
Jun 16, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean food
Korean food firms chase sizzling K-food demand with expansion
South Korean food companies are scrambling to ramp up factory output at home and abroad to meet the insatiable appetite for Korean flavors and aroma...
Jun 14, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung unveils new foundry tech; AI chip sales to rise ninefold
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Wednesday unveiled a new contract chipmaking techno...
Jun 13, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Rebellions-Sapeon Korea merger to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, is merging with its crosstown rival Sapeon Korea Inc., an AI chip firm ...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech
LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...
Jun 12, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Retail
Lotte Home Shopping to unveil Bellygom game
South Korea's Lotte Home Shopping announced on Monday that it will release a mobile game called Bellygom Match Land, leveraging the intellectual pro...
Jun 10, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Economy
Korea’s exports at 22-month high in May on chips, cars
South Korea’s exports hit a 22-month high in May, led by strong shipments of semiconductors and automobiles abroad, adding to hopes that overs...
Jun 02, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chief Executives
Samsung’s new chip head instills a sense of crisis, hope
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new semiconductor chief Jun Young-hyun knows better than anyone about the difficulties the South Korean tech giant fa...
May 31, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
SK Hynix works on next-generation HBM chip supply plans for 2025
South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. said on Thursday it is working on next year’s supply plans for its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips as clie...
May 30, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Samsung Securities faces trading system server errors
Samsung Securities Co., the brokerage unit of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group, suffered system errors on its servers on Monday mo...
May 27, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate strategy
SK Innovation’s Ulsan plant goes smarter with AI, robot dog, AR tech
ULSAN, South Gyeongsang Province – At a petrochemical plant run by SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest oil refiner, Spot, a robot d...
May 26, 2024 (Gmt+09:00)