Just after the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the Chinese regime announced that it is banning products from U.S. memory chip maker Micron, citing national security risks. The move has put the U.S.-led coalition against Beijing to the test, experts say. Beijing’s move to ban Micron was intended to use the market vacated by Micron…

News Analysis Following the U.S. chip ban on China last October, South Korea, a member of the U.S.-led Chip 4 Alliance, has not followed Washington’s strategy as explicitly as other alliance members, Japan and Taiwan, as it appears to have been trying to strike a balance between the United States and China. However, analysts believe…

Amid the escalating strategic rivalry between the United States and China, South Korean semiconductor giants are rapidly shifting sales to the U.S. market while reducing dependence on China. Recent business reports released by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix showed their sales in China dropped 3.77 percent and 5.39 percent respectively in the third quarter (Q3)…

New Analysis Faced with rising raw material costs and poor logistics, major South Korean firms have accelerated their expansion of production bases worldwide to reduce over-reliance on China. Korean conglomerates such as Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor, Posco, and Lotte have put forward their measures to address the pressures facing the global supply chain. The…

Four South Koreans were charged on Dec. 22 for allegedly leaking cutting-edge semiconductor technologies to a Chinese company. According to JoongAng Ilbo newspaper, an unnamed South Korean company—coined ‘company A’— illegally obtained the sensitive technology from another South Korean company—’company B’—and then sold it on to a newly-established semiconductor company in China. The alleged illegal activity took…

News Analysis A major South Korean chip producer is planning to take cutting-edge equipment to a plant in China. The United States has pointed out that this is a military risk; and one expert says that it is crucial for Korean companies to move their production to the United States over China due to its…

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. has unveiled the industry’s highest-performing DRAM with a data speed capable of transmitting 163 full-HD movies in a single second. Experts describe this as the fastest and largest capacity memory chip to date. SK Hynix announced on Oct. 20 that it had successfully developed the third-generation DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access…