Korea Zinc wins US political backing for Tennessee smelter
The $7.4 billion Project Crucible facility in Clarksville cleared federal environmental reviews under FAST-41 to supply 11…
Ji-woo Han leads Korea coverage, working from exchange disclosures, ministry notices and company IR material. She writes most often on memory and advanced packaging.
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Samsung and SK hynix Target Robot DRAM as Demand Multiplies
Average memory per humanoid will more than double to 39 gigabytes by 2030, shifting packaging requirements toward low-power LPDDR…
SK hynix and Samsung push 16-layer HBM4 as Nvidia caps Rubin at 12 dies
South Korean memory makers prepare 48-gigabyte stacks with hybrid bonding as AI accelerator thermal constraints and packaging…
Stratacache lists former SK hynix Oregon chip fab for sale
The 197-acre Eugene campus with 170,000 square feet of cleanroom space returns to the market after local zoning officials blocked…
South Korea confirms $120 billion civil nuclear pact with US
The bilateral framework outlines six AP1000 and two APR1400 reactors across federal sites, allocating $100 billion for…
Lam Research ships 15,000th chip equipment chamber in Korea
The milestone marks 15 years of domestic manufacturing across Gyeonggi Province as local procurement surpassed 1 trillion won…
AMD weighs Samsung foundry alliance to ease reliance on TSMC
Lisa Su said in Seoul that the chipmaker is exploring production with Samsung Electronics, testing a hedge against single-foundry…
CXMT Hired 27 Samsung and SK hynix Engineers for DRAM Fabs
Parliamentary audit data shows departing specialists averaged 15.4 years of service before brief tenures at the Chinese memory…
Nextin wins $18.8 million SK hynix wafer inspection order
The Korean toolmaker booked a 25.44 billion won deal equal to 38% of its annual sales, expanding domestic optical metrology…
Samsung revamps HBM thermal packaging to challenge TSMC supply lead
The South Korean chipmaker pairs 4nm base dies with hybrid copper bonding to curb thermal resistance by 20% as Nvidia demands…
LS Eco Energy builds Vietnam samarium hub ahead of defense ban
A 11.6 billion won investment establishes non-Chinese refining in Ho Chi Minh City ahead of a Pentagon ban on Chinese-origin…
Hanmi Semiconductor wins $18 million tool deal from Samsung
The 24.48 billion won order for substrate saw and inspection equipment marks the supplier's first major contract with a Samsung…
JSR completes South Korea EUV photoresist plant in Cheongju
The Japanese supplier established the industry's first commercial finishing base for tin-based metal oxide resists to support…
Korean chip toolmakers target Musk's $16.8 billion Texas fab
Hanmi Semiconductor and HPSP pursue supply roles in SpaceX and Tesla's planned Grimes County facility as Elon Musk acknowledges…
CK Solution wins SK hynix cleanroom deal, targeting 500B won
A $110 million contract for SK hynix's Indiana packaging fab lifts the cleanroom engineering specialist's disclosed 2026 bookings…
Samsung starts Exynos 2700 production, lifting run size 10%
The 2nm processor targets Galaxy S27 handsets in Korea and Europe, trimming reliance on Qualcomm as Samsung Foundry works to…
MK Electron expands Kunshan plated wire capacity by 50% into 2027
The South Korean materials maker is lifting output at its Chinese plant to meet confirmed orders from local assembly houses as…
JSR opens South Korea EUV photoresist plant for 2nm chips
The 75 billion won facility in Ochang establishes local finishing lines for metal oxide resist, positioning the Japanese supplier…
Samsung says HBM will take 30% of DRAM wafer capacity by 2027
The shift crowds out standard DDR5 output across shared lines, while research firm TrendForce projects average selling prices for…
LS Eco Energy builds Vietnam samarium line as US rules loom
The Seoul-based supplier will spend 11.6 billion won for 58% of Global Shre Metal to produce 240 tons of defense-grade material…
SK hynix Evaluates Solidigm US IPO Amid Governance Scrutiny
Reports of a potential $150 billion U.S. listing for the enterprise SSD subsidiary highlight booming AI storage demand while…
SK hynix resumes DRAM packaging outsourcing to vendor Winpac
The memory maker is allocating DDR4 and DDR5 flip-chip assembly to the domestic OSAT provider, shifting legacy backend operations…
Korea unfreezes Honam grid to add 2.6 GW of solar capacity
The policy ends a two-year connection freeze across 164 substations on Oct.
OCI anchors Jeonbuk chip materials hub with acid expansion
The chemical maker will lift Gunsan phosphoric acid capacity to 30,000 tons as South Korea commits 45 billion won to anchor an…
SK hynix validates HBM5 with TSMC on next-generation CoWoS
The South Korean chipmaker secured TSMC's partner award after completing thermal and electrical trials on eighth-generation…
Evolution Metals expands Korea magnet plant to 10,000 tons
The US firm is scaling its Pohang facility ten-fold to 10,000 metric tons ahead of a January 2027 Pentagon ban on Chinese rare…
Qualcomm keeps TSMC for 2nm processors, shutting out Samsung Foundry
The mobile chipmaker affirmed its exclusive production tie to TSMC despite wafer costs topping $30,000, leaving Samsung with…
Korean power gear makers book grid orders on US fab growth
Surging battery storage deployments and grid bottlenecks across North America lift combined order backlogs at South Korea's three…
Commerce exempts South Korean biopharma from import tariffs on Sept. 29
New BIS rules grant zero-tariff entry for antibody-drug conjugates and cell therapies from 19 allied jurisdictions, shielding…
KKR deploys record $3 billion into South Korea AI hardware
The private equity firm is targeting data center platforms, enterprise services and clean generation capacity tied to advanced…