NTT DoCoMo and Samsung Electronics validated AI-based radio access network (AI-RAN) optimization technology at the consumer device level, reducing communication-speed degradation from 13.1% to 7.2% in…
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI closed at 6,345.53, up 0.73 percent Tuesday, as strong early-August export data outweighed concerns over AI investment. Semiconductor exports surged 155.4 percent year-on…
Samsung Electronics Co. is considering its first special dividend in six years as booming artificial intelligence memory chip demand doubled its net cash to 167.59 trillion won ($121.2 billion) at the…
Oil prices held steady on Tuesday after jumping 5% the previous day, with Brent crude unchanged at $87.72 a barrel and U.S. benchmark crude flat at $82.13, as uncertainty persisted over when the Strai…
South Korea's defense ministry vowed Tuesday to actively push for the temporary relocation of Air Force operations from Gwangju Air Base to speed up a chip cluster project in the southwestern region. …
Samsung Electronics and NTT Docomo announced on August 10 that they validated user-level AI-RAN optimization technology using simulations based on commercial-network and local 5G trial-field data in J…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed in early June 2026 that Nvidia has qualified Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology as suppliers of HBM4 memory for its Vera Rubin AI accelerator platfo…
A global memory chip shortage, driven by surging demand for AI data centers, is expected to persist through 2027, according to industry analysts cited by The New York Times. The shortage has pushed pr…
Samsung Electronics warned during its Q2 2026 earnings call on July 30 that memory chip shortages will intensify through 2027 and won't ease until at least 2028, driven by AI demand. The company's sem…
South Korea announced the creation of the Future Response Fund on July 5, a vehicle that will channel surplus semiconductor tax revenues into chips, physical AI, and AI data centers, as part of a broa…
President Lee Jae Myung ordered the relocation of military operations from Gwangju Air Base to other airfields by mid-2028 to accelerate construction of a second semiconductor belt in the Honam region…
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung is pushing to relocate the Gwangju Air Base, a joint US military facility, by mid-2028 to build a semiconductor megacluster, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix …
President Lee Jae Myung will preside over a meeting Monday at 2 p.m. to discuss the prompt implementation of a large-scale investment initiative for semiconductor manufacturing facilities and AI data …
South Korea's chip industry, which supplies about 80% of the world's high-bandwidth memory chips for AI systems, is reshaping the economy and society, with factory workers at Samsung Electronics and S…
Samsung Electronics unveiled three next-generation memory technologies at the Future of Memory and Storage conference, including BV-NAND, a wafer-bonded flash architecture enabling more than 400 layer…
Samsung Electronics warned during its Q2 2026 earnings call that AI-driven memory chip shortages will intensify in 2027 and persist through at least 2028, sending Micron Technology shares up approxima…
Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, is building a team to design its own custom AI chips for inference, following Google, Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI. The company will take a 'multi-chip' ap…
Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, marking the first public acknowledgment of the effort. The company posted a job li…
Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom AI chips for its Claude model, marking the first public confirmation of the plans. The company will co-design hardware and …
Global shares advanced Wednesday after Wall Street hit fresh records, with Japan's Nikkei 225 jumping 3.7% and South Korea's Kospi rising 3.8% on gains in AI-related chipmakers. Oil prices resumed the…