SUWON, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) –A former Chinese employee of SK Hynix has been arrested and indicted on charges of illegally transferring the company’s core technology for reducing semiconductor defects to Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, prosecutors said on May 28. The 30-year-old woman, identified only by her last name A, worked at SK Hynix’s [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States, China and countries around the world are waging an intense battle to gain supremacy in the semiconductor industry, crucial for cutting-edge technologies. On May 23, in a meeting presided over by President Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s government unveiled a comprehensive 26 trillion won support package for [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has developed a next-generation mobile NAND solution designed for on-device artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The new Zoned UFS (ZUFS) 4.0 is a NAND flash memory chip that improves efficiency of data management, and optimizes data transfer between operating system and [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it swung to a profit in the first quarter of this year on the back of rising global demand for premium memory chip products used for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. The world’s second-largest memory chipmaker posted an operating profit of 2.88 trillion won (US$2.09 [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it will ramp up production capacity of next-generation DRAMs in response to rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Earlier in the day, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker decided in a board meeting to invest 5.3 trillion won (US$3.85 billion) to convert a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Friday it has set up a strategic partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) aimed at bolstering its capabilities in producing premium high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips and advanced packaging technologies. Under the memorandum of understanding agreed recently in Taipei, Taiwan, the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it will invest US$3.87 billion to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility in the United States amid intensifying competition in the high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) memory semiconductor sector. The new facility, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, will begin mass-producing [...]
The company’s facility for AI memory chips marks the largest single economic development in the history of the state WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. announced Wednesday (April 3) that it plans to invest close to $4 billion to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products [...]
SK hynix’s new West Lafayette plant and investment in research and development bolsters Indiana’s booming semiconductor ecosystem, attracting talent and supporting US innovation, technology and security WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Governor Eric J. Holcomb, Secretary of Commerce David Rosenberg and Purdue University President Mung Chiang joined federal partners and executives of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has started mass production of the latest high band width memory (HBM) chips, solidifying its leadership position in the high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) memory semiconductor sector. It came seven months after the company announced the development of the fifth-generation HBM3E [...]