SK hynix announced on September 3 that it has installed a High NA EUV lithography system at its M16 fab in Icheon, South Korea, and held a ceremony to mark the system’s assembly. The machine introduced is ASML’s TWINSCAN EXE:5200B, the first High NA EUV model designed for volume production, a...

With DDR4 prices holding strong amid tight supply, memory giants that once planned to phase out the chip are now reversing course. South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper reports that Samsung and SK hynix will extend DDR4 production into next year. Previously, as Commercial Times noted, both com...

According to ZDNet, South Korea may lead in memory products like DRAM and NAND flash, but it remains heavily dependent on Japan for critical materials. The report, citing sources, warns that unless localization advances more quickly, this reliance could become a structural risk for the country in th...

According to Chosun Daily, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, Korea this October. Citing sources, the report says his participation has raised expectations for deeper U.S.–Korea semiconductor cooperation and underscores NVIDIA’s i...

Samsung and SK hynix, though temporarily spared from the risk of U.S. government stake-taking, are running into new obstacles in China as Washington revokes exemptions—granted under Biden after the 2022 export curbs—that previously allowed them to freely import American chipmaking equipment, acc...