Recently, The Korea Economic Daily reported that Samsung Electronics has been closely reviewing its chip design and foundry businesses and is considering a potential restructuring due to ongoing struggles. This concern is also reflected in its hiring strategy. As noted by Korean media outlet NewsPim...

Japan’s Rapidus is making waves with its 2nm chip push, positioning itself against foundry giants like TSMC, Intel, and Samsung. But questions loom over its hefty investments and the absence of major client orders. A recent Asahi Shimbun report argues that Rapidus’ focus on extreme semiconductor...

The NAND market seems to be finally seeing a turnaround. According to Commercial Times and TechNews, U.S. memory makers like Micron and SanDisk have decided to kick off price hikes next month, with SanDisk set to raise NAND prices by over 10% starting April 1. In addition, South Korean memory gia...

Following Google and Microsoft’s advancements in quantum chip research, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently unveiled its first prototype quantum chip, "Ocelot," designed to test the effectiveness of AWS's quantum error correction architecture. Compared to current quantum error correction method...

In late February, Micron announced in a press release that it had delivered 1γ (gamma) DDR5 samples to customers like Intel and AMD, becoming the first in the memory sector to do so. Notably, according to Chosun Biz, Micron applied EUV equipment to only one layer in the sample. The report sugges...