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Just days after clinching a $16.5 billion deal with Tesla, South Korean memory giant Samsung posted Q2 results, showing a steep 55% drop in overall operating profit, as highlighted by Reuters. However, as Chosun Daily points out, its semiconductor business took an even harder hit, with profit plungi...
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According to TrendForce's latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, trading activities have slowed down for DDR4 products compared with the previous week, while x16 consumer DRAM products have stronger price support compared with x8 PC DRAM products. As for NAND flash, some of the buyer...
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Riding a record-smashing Q2 profit fueled by strong demand for 12-high HBM3E, SK hynix announced at last week’s earnings call that it will boost 2025 spending to keep pace with the expanding HBM market. While the company hasn’t disclosed the exact increase, sources told The Elec its 2025 capex i...
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According to a ZDNet report citing industry sources on the 25th, leading global semiconductor back-end equipment manufacturers are expected to expand their HBM hybrid bonding operations in the second half of 2025. BESI Expects Rising Hybrid Bonding Orders in H2 2025 On July 24, Dutch equipment...
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Riding strong demand for 12-high HBM3E and broad NAND growth, SK hynix smashed records in Q2, announcing a stellar 22.23 trillion won ($16.15B) in sales and 9.21 trillion won ($6.7B) in operating profit—the best quarterly results ever, according to its press release and The Korea Times. The mem...