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SK Group chief Chey Tae-won arrives in Taiwan to tighten ties with TSMC

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has touched down in Taiwan alongside SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung as the Korean chipmaker looks to strengthen ties with TSMC for mass production of its next-generation AI memory chips.

2025-04-10

Samsung to reassess client relations to compete with 'customer-first' TSMC

Samsung Electronics has openly admitted that it must focus on its foundry clients as its struggles in the business continue with no end in sight.

2025-03-22

Samsung wants employees to put the 'F' in 'foundry,' not business performance

Samsung Electronics has sent a memo to employees instructing them to pronounce "foundry" correctly in English, claiming that Korean pronunciation is leading to customer confusion as the firm looks to pinpoint reasons for its flagging chip business.

2025-03-12

Plan for 1 chip fab puts Korea well behind U.S., Japan

A report by a semiconductor industry association found that Korea will only start on one new chip facility this year at a time when other countries aggressively scale up their investments.

2025-01-13

Samsung's new foundry leader acknowledges that company is 'behind'

Han Jin-man, Samsung's new leader of contract chip manufacturing, acknowledged low yields in their 2-nanometer chips and emphasized improving efficiency while recognizing the company's lag behind competitors like TSMC.

2024-12-09

Foundry woes push Samsung to weigh once-unthinkable collaboration with TSMC

Waving the white flag on the back of a poor third quarter, Samsung Electronics has announced that it will collaborate with other chip makers in a bid to get serious traction in the HBM game.

2024-11-02

Groq raises $640 million in Samsung-led Series D round

Groq raised $640 million in Series D funding to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance.

2024-08-09

Samsung wins 2nm chip-manufacturing deal with Japanese AI firm

Samsung Electronics will provide turnkey services in AI chip-making for Japanese firm Preferred Networks, which previously contracted with TSMC.

2024-07-09

Foundry, fabless need more int’l cooperation (KOR)

The global strategies and visions of Korea’s chip industry leaders are more important than ever.

2024-03-21

Foundry, fabless need more int’l cooperation

The global strategies and visions of Korea’s chip industry leaders are more important than ever.

2024-03-20