Micron Technology broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its Hiroshima factory to produce high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, with commercial shipments expected by summer 2028. The Japanes…
Micron broke ground on a $9.3 billion expansion of its Hiroshima plant to produce high bandwidth memory for Nvidia's AI chips, aiming to challenge SK Hynix's dominant market share. The project, subsid…
Micron Technology broke ground on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima, Japan factory to produce high-bandwidth memory chips for AI applications, with construction starting in May…
SK Hynix plans to list American depositary receipts on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY around July 10, aiming to raise up to $29.65 billion in the largest ADR offering in over two decades. The listing co…
Over $610 billion in AI hardware capital expenditure was committed globally in a single week, including South Korea's $550B memory fab investment, Japan's $6B for AI model development, and Qualcomm's …
Samsung Electronics is raising prices on commodity DRAM and LPDDR memory chips by over 20% in Q3 2026, marking the third consecutive quarter of significant hikes. The increases, driven by supply bottl…
Semiconductor stocks lost 12% in two sessions while the Dow hit a record, as investors rotated from AI chip makers to enterprise software companies. A weak jobs report crushed rate-hike odds.…
The semiconductor industry group SEMI warned the Trump administration against intervening in the memory chip market, arguing that price or production controls would worsen the ongoing shortage driven …
Kioxia has begun sampling its tenth-generation 332-layer 3D NAND BiCS chips, featuring 1 Tbit TLC capacity and a 4.8 Gbit/s interface speed. The technology introduces CMOS directly Bonded to Array and…
Kioxia and Sandisk have begun sampling their tenth-generation 3D NAND BiCS chips with 332 layers, featuring 1 Tbit TLC chips for enterprise and data center SSDs. The new technology introduces CMOS dir…
Kioxia Holdings has begun shipping samples of its next-generation 332-layer 3D flash memory chips to AI data center operators, aiming to capture a larger share of the growing market. The new chips off…
Intel, TSMC, SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, Marvell, Lightmatter, and Microsoft disclosed advanced packaging technologies at ECTC 2026, including Intel's EMIB-T with 36/35 µm bump pitch and plans for 25 µ…
General Motors has signed a long-term agreement with Micron for the supply of DRAM and NAND chips, securing critical memory technologies for its next-generation vehicles with AI-enabled features and a…
Console prices are skyrocketing as Sony and Microsoft hike prices on PS5 and Xbox models, driven by a semiconductor squeeze from AI data center demand. OpenAI's deal with Samsung and SK Hynix tripled …
Sony and Microsoft have raised prices on their PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles, respectively, citing soaring costs for semiconductors and memory driven by AI datacentre demand. The price hi…
Zuid-Korea exporteerde in mei voor het eerst meer dan 100 miljard dollar aan goederen, een stijging van 70% jaar-op-jaar, gedreven door de wereldwijde vraag naar AI-geheugenchips. Het land is nu de gr…
South Korea's June 2026 exports surged 70.9% year-over-year to $102.25 billion, the fastest growth since October 1978, driven by a 199.5% jump in semiconductor exports to $44.8 billion as global AI ch…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix pledged 3,200 trillion won ($2.07 trillion) in investments to expand South Korea's memory chip production capacity, betting on sustained AI demand. The plan aims to do…
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources denied rumors that it urged Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to form a government-led think tank for channeling chipmaker profits, calling the r…
South Korea's exports surged 49.7% in the first 20 days of June, driven by a 188.4% jump in semiconductor shipments as AI demand fuels a historic boom. Samsung and SK Hynix announced $520B in new chip…