Chip sales to the world’s second-largest economy including Hong Kong fell 31.8 per cent from a year earlier, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. That was bigger than the 22.5 per cent contraction reported for January and comes after a 2024 rally that helped fuel South Korea’s economic growth. High-bandwidth memory…
South Korea is lagging behind or matching China in “basic competency” in five areas of semiconductor technology, including memory chips and artificial intelligence (AI) chips, according to a report released last week by the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning. The think tank report, based on a survey of 39 South Korean…
China’s chip ambitions are being tested again as fresh US sanctions, the third escalation in three years, hit more broadly across the semiconductor supply chain, industry insiders said. The US Commerce Department, which oversees export controls, added 140 Chinese chip-related organisations to a trade blacklist and placed additional restrictions on China’s access to semiconductor manufacturing…
China’s efforts to develop home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors are facing fresh setbacks as the US prepares to implement new rules restricting South Korean exports of advanced memory chips to Chinese companies. The mainland would find itself in a difficult position if the supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips from South Korea is cut off…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had asked memory chip maker SK Hynix to bring forward by six months the supply of its next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips called HBM4, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday. South Korea’s SK Hynix said in October that it aimed to…
By Heekyong Yang, Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s SK Hynix on Thursday posted a record quarterly profit as the Nvidia supplier booked strong sales of its advanced chips, and said demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips would continue to outpace supply next year. The company played down market concerns about an…
Illustration: FeatureChina (AP) In This Story Global chip stocks rallied after U.S.-based Micron’s (MU) revenue forecast topped Wall Street’s expectations. Investors should hope for a divided Congress, strategist says Micron shares were up over 18% in pre-market trading on Thursday morning, then stayed up around 17% after the market open. Micron’s earnings report boosted global…
By Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) – SK Hynix shares jumped more than 9% on Thursday after the South Korean firm started mass production of the most advanced high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, pulling ahead in a race to meet demand from an artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Shares of the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker…