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UK Semiconductor Equipment Company TeraView to List on KOSDAQ
BusinessKorea Herald12h ago

UK Semiconductor Equipment Company TeraView to List on KOSDAQ

TeraView, a UK-based semiconductor equipment company specializing in terahertz technology, plans to list on South Korea's KOSDAQ market to target the Asian market and achieve a proper valuation. The company counts Samsung, Intel, and Nvidia among its clients.

China’s cut-rate DRAM tests Samsung, SK in HBM4 race
TechnologyKorea Herald3d ago

China’s cut-rate DRAM tests Samsung, SK in HBM4 race

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are locked in a race to mass-produce sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, but Chinese rivals are making gains elsewhere — flooding the legacy DRAM market with chips priced at roughly half the going rate. According to industry sources on Friday, China’s top DRAM manufacturer CXMT has been offering older-generation DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate. The move comes as global supply shortages have driven prices sharply higher, allowing the compan

Why Mark Zuckerberg's Meta new deal with Nvidia is 'bad news' for Intel and AMD
TechnologyTimes of IndiaKorea Herald4d ago2 sources

Why Mark Zuckerberg's Meta new deal with Nvidia is 'bad news' for Intel and AMD

Meta is significantly boosting its partnership with Nvidia, securing millions of the chipmaker's latest processors for its data centers. This extensive deal, covering both AI training and inference, also includes Nvidia's CPUs, traditionally Intel and AMD's territory. The move consolidates Meta's AI infrastructure, potentially impacting competitors and simplifying vendor management.

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S26 expected to see first price hike in 3 years
TechnologyYahooKorea Herald6d ago2 sources

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S26 expected to see first price hike in 3 years

Samsung Electronics Co.'s upcoming Galaxy smartphone is expected to see its first price increase since 2023, industry watchers said Wednesday, amid a global rise in memory chip prices fueled by the artificial intelligence boom. The South Korean tech giant plans to host the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event in San Francisco on Feb. 25 under the theme "The Next AI Phone Makes Your Life Easier," where the company is widely expected to unveil the Galaxy S26, the latest in its flagship lineup. Samsung Elect

Supreme Court raises criminal stakes in Samsung chip tech leak
BusinessKorea Herald14h ago

Supreme Court raises criminal stakes in Samsung chip tech leak

Each step in a coordinated technology theft scheme should be prosecuted as a separate crime in South Korea, the Supreme Court ruled last month, significantly widening criminal exposure in a case involving Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor technology allegedly leaked to China. The court said stealing trade secrets, passing them to an accomplice and using them are not one continuous offense but distinct criminal acts. That conclusion overturns lower court rulings that had treated the entire chain

Why UK tech firm TeraView picked Korea for listing
BusinessKorea Herald1d ago

Why UK tech firm TeraView picked Korea for listing

While high-profile Korean startups such as Toss and Yanolja chase Wall Street valuations — following Coupang’s US listing — a British chip-equipment maker is betting on Seoul instead. TeraView, a UK firm that commercialized terahertz technology for ultraprecision semiconductor inspection, chose to list on Kosdaq rather than in London or New York. The company counts Samsung Electronics, Intel and Nvidia among its customers, supplying critical components used in advanced chip manufacturing. “TeraV

Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI 'choke point'
TechnologyBusiness Insider3d ago

Google Deepmind CEO says the memory shortage is creating an AI 'choke point'

Google's AI boss Demis Hassabis said the memory market came down to "a few suppliers of a few key components." PONTUS LUNDAHL/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said that the "whole supply chain" for memory chips is constrained. "You need a lot of chips to be able to experiment on new ideas," Hassabis told CNBC. Google produces its own TPUs, but Hassabis said that there were still "key components" that were supply-constrained. The memory shortage takes no prisoners. Even Google isn't immune. AI companies are duking it out for greater and greater quantities of memory chips. The problem? The industry is heavily supply-constrained. Costs have skyrocketed, products have been tied up, and some companies — especially those in consumer electronics — are increasing prices. On the AI front, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told CNBC that physical challenges were "constraining a lot of deployment." Google sees "so much more demand" for Gemini and its other models than it could serve, he said. "Also, it does constrain a little bit the research," Hassabis said. "You need a lot of chips to be able to experiment on new ideas at a big enough scale that you can actually see if they're going to work." Researchers want chips, whether they work at Google, Meta, OpenAI, or other Big Tech companies, and memory is a key component. Mark Zuckerberg said that AI researchers demanded two things beyond money: the fewest number of people reporting to them, and the most chips possible. Hassabis said that wherever there was a capacity constraint, there was a "choke point." "The whole supply chain is kind of strained," Hassabis said. "We're lucky, because we have our own TPUs, so we have our own chip designs." Google has long built TPUs — Tensor Processing Units — for internal use. The company also leases them to external customers through its cloud, which has also put Nvidia on edge. But even access to their own TPUs won't save Google from having to navigate the highly competitive memory market. "It still, in the end, actually comes down to a few suppliers of a few key components," Hassabis said. Three suppliers dominate memory chip production: Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. These companies are struggling to meet demand for chips from AI hyperscalers without dropping their longtime electronics customers. It doesn't help that AI companies mainly want a different type of memory chip than PC manufacturers do. Large language model producers want HBM (high-bandwidth memory) chips. Don't expect Google's spending on AI infrastructure and chips to go down anytime soon. On its fourth-quarter earnings call, the company projected capital expenditures of $175 billion to $185 billion for 2026. Read the original article on Business Insider

Samsung Electronics, KT hit record 6G speeds in 7GHz band
TechnologyKorea Herald3d ago

Samsung Electronics, KT hit record 6G speeds in 7GHz band

Samsung Electronics said Friday it had achieved record data transmission speeds in the 7-gigahertz band — a core frequency for 6G networks — in a test with Korean telecom operator KT and US electronics test equipment firm Keysight Technologies. The ultrahigh-density multiple-antenna technology is based on massive multiple-input multiple-output architecture, which integrates a large number of antennas into a single system to improve efficiency and speed. Under the partnership, Samsung developed a

Samsung SDI to sell W10tr Samsung Display stake to fund ESS pivot
BusinessKorea Herald4d ago

Samsung SDI to sell W10tr Samsung Display stake to fund ESS pivot

Samsung SDI is set to sell its 15.22 percent stake in Samsung Display — valued at about 10 trillion won ($6.9 billion) — to fund investments in energy storage systems and strengthen its financial structure as a prolonged slowdown in the electric vehicle market weighs on earnings. According to the company, it informed its board on Thursday of plans to sell its stake in Samsung Display, while details -- including the counterparty, deal size, terms and timeline -- remain undisclosed. The proposal w

Samsung bonus ruling ignites severance battle
BusinessKorea Herald4d ago

Samsung bonus ruling ignites severance battle

Samsung Group affiliates are bracing for a new wave of severance pay lawsuits after the Supreme Court ruled last month that Samsung Electronics’ target-based bonus must be treated as wages when calculating retirement pay. Legal sources said Thursday that unions and former employees at Samsung Electronics Service, Samsung Fire and Samsung SDS are consulting with law firm A Pro on potential claims seeking additional severance. The legal turning point came Jan. 29, when the Supreme Court held that

Samsung rolls out ‘secure chat’ to curb internal leaks
BusinessKorea Herald5d ago

Samsung rolls out ‘secure chat’ to curb internal leaks

Samsung Electronics and other key Samsung Group affiliates have tightened controls on internal communications by introducing a “secure chat” mode on their employee messaging platform, a step aimed at curbing repeated leaks of sensitive internal discussions, industry sources said Wednesday. The new setting restricts how messages can be shared or stored once activated. According to an internal notice, secure chat rooms block copy and paste, message forwarding, screen capture and the saving of chat