• Monday | 09 November 2026
FuriosaAI Raises US$620 Million in Series D Funding to Expand AI Inference Chip Production

FuriosaAI, an AI semiconductor company building sustainable, high-performance inference compute for data centers, announced the completion of its $620 million (KRW 820 billion) Series D round, bringing its post-money valuation to approximately $2.9 billion. The financing marks a major milestone as FuriosaAI scales global commercial deployments of its RNGD AI inference accelerator. FuriosaAI will ...

30 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Seoul Viosys Begins Mass Production of Rare-Earth-Free White Micro LEDs Using WICOP 3 Technology

For three decades, white LEDs have depended on rare earth materials such as yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) layered onto a blue LED chip (Figure 1). Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 092190) announced that it has broken that dependence. It has developed and begun mass producing a chip that emits white light without rare earths. The chip can be as small as 10 micrometers (µm). Seoul Viosys and i...

30 Oct 2026 | Friday | NEWS
SK hynix and Samsung Electronics Set for Earnings Updates as AI Memory Demand Surges

SK hynix will announce its third-quarter 2026 results on 28 October, with Samsung Electronics set to follow on 29 October. Market consensus compiled by FnGuide projects SK hynix's third-quarter consolidated revenue at KRW 98.23 trillion and operating profit at KRW 76.96 trillion, increases of 301.76% and 576.11% year on year respectively. South Korean media expect the company's operating margin t...

28 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
China's Chip Manufacturing Expansion Threatens South Korean Memory Margins, PwC Says

South Korea's semiconductor industry needs to strengthen its cost competitiveness and move towards higher-value products as China expands its chip manufacturing capacity, according to a new report from Samil PwC, the South Korean member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Published on 26 October 2026, the report examines how China's semiconductor industry has developed beyond individual technology in...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Samsung SDI Secures 1.5 GWh Battery Storage Supply Agreements with Alpha Omega Power in the US

Supply deals with AOP totaling 1.5 GWh, with all products to be manufactured at the SPE plant in Indiana SBB 1.7 features high-nickel NCA prismatic batteries and proven fire safety, supporting AOP projects in the WECC and ERCOT power markets Samsung SDI expands its North American ESS presence as AOP grows its U.S. storage portfolio Samsung SDI announced that its Michigan-based subsidi...

27 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Axcelis Invests $35 Million in New Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing Facility in South Korea

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced that it will officially break ground on its new ion implantation equipment manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. This $35 million investment reflects Axcelis' continued commitment to strengthening its high-volume manufacturing infr...

21 Oct 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
LG Expands Chiller Production in US and South Korea for AI Data Centres

LG Electronics is expanding chiller production across three manufacturing facilities by establishing a new factory in the United States and expanding production at its existing facilities in Changwon and Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The new U.S. facility in Virginia will enable local chiller production and help LG respond quickly to growing chiller demand across North America. Through its “O...

13 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
Iron Device Expands GaN and SiC Power Semiconductor Business for Robotics and Data Centres

South Korean fabless chipmaker Iron Device is stepping up its expansion into power semiconductors, targeting emerging demand from humanoid robots and data centres while continuing to grow its established smartphone amplifier business. The company has begun mass production of its SMA6533, a 100V gate-driver IC designed to control gallium nitride (GaN) power devices. The chip delivers a propagation...

6 Oct 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
The Package Is the New Processor: Why Chiplets Are Rewriting Semiconductor Design

For most of the industry’s history, progress meant one thing: pack more functions onto a single piece of silicon. That playbook still works for plenty of products. But at the frontier, in AI accelerators, data-centre processors and high-end networking, it is running into hard limits of physics, yield and cost. The response is a quiet but fundamental change in how chips are conceived. Instead...

2 Oct 2026 | Friday | Analysis
SEMIFIVE Signs $52 Million AI Inference Accelerator Development Contract in North America

SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced that it has signed a contract worth approximately KRW 70.3 billion (USD 52 million) with a U.S.-based AI fabless company to develop a next-generation AI inference accelerator. The project marks SEMIFIVE's first "Spec Hand-off" engagement in the North American market. The contract alone represents more than ...

30 Sep 2026 | Wednesday | NEWS
Hanmi Semiconductor Ships First FC Bonder 75 to Expand AI Advanced Packaging Portfolio

South Korean semiconductor equipment manufacturer Hanmi Semiconductor has shipped its first FC Bonder 75 system to a global customer, marking a move into advanced packaging equipment for AI system semiconductors. The company has traditionally been known for its thermal compression (TC) bonding equipment used in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production, while the new system broadens its focus towards...

29 Sep 2026 | Tuesday | NEWS
IonQ and SDT Strengthen South Korea Quantum Ecosystem with Superion 256 Partnership

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, announced a strategic partnership with Korea-based quantum technology and software company SDT, Inc. Under this multi-year collaboration, IonQ will supply SDT with a Superion 256 quantum computer as well as IonQ’s silicon-vacancy (SiV) quantum memory module. "Demand for our new Superion 256 system is growi...

24 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
India Advances Semiconductor Ecosystem as SEMICON India 2026 Highlights Scale, Talent and Global Partnerships

India is moving towards the next phase of its semiconductor ambitions, with the second day of SEMICON India 2026 highlighting progress across chip design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, materials, research and development, supply chains and talent. Speaking during a fireside conversation, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways, and Information ...

19 Sep 2026 | Saturday | NEWS
SEMICON India 2026 Opens as India Showcases Growing Semiconductor Ecosystem

India is showcasing the progress of its semiconductor industry as SEMICON India 2026 gets underway in New Delhi, bringing together global and Indian companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, start-ups and academic institutions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the fifth edition of the three-day conference and exhibition at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 17 September. The event is being...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
India Unveils ‘Semicon 2.0’ to Accelerate Semiconductor Ecosystem

India is moving into the next phase of its semiconductor development with the launch of ‘Semicon 2.0’, a programme focused on expanding the country’s capabilities across chip design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, research and development, and talent development. Speaking at SEMICON India 2026, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said t...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
SEMICON India 2026 to Bring Together Global Semiconductor Ecosystem in New Delhi

New Delhi is set to host SEMICON India 2026 from 17–19 September, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to inaugurate the three-day conference and exhibition at Yashobhoomi on 17 September. Organised around the theme ‘Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem’, the event will bring together global and Indian semiconductor companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, s...

17 Sep 2026 | Thursday | NEWS
Axcelis Invests $35 Million in New Ion Implantation Facility in South Korea

Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLS), a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced plans to invest $35 million in its global manufacturing infrastructure through the construction of a new ion implantation equipment manufacturing facility in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Korea. President and CEO Russell Low commented, "This investme...

11 Sep 2026 | Friday | NEWS
Needham Sees Strong Mature-Node Semiconductor Demand as Industry Upcycle Broadens

Needham’s latest semiconductor equipment tracker points to continued strength across mature-node manufacturing, with improving global chip sales and firm memory pricing supporting the broader semiconductor cycle. The 33rd Semicap Tracker, which incorporates July equipment import data from South Korea, Taiwan and China, as well as semiconductor sales through June and memory spot prices throug...

31 Aug 2026 | Monday | NEWS
SK hynix Breaks Ground on $4 Billion US HBM Production Hub in Indiana

  SK hynix Inc. is opening a new future for AI cooperation between the United States and South Korea by establishing the first next-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) production hub in the US. SK hynix announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for an advanced packaging[1] production facility for AI memory on the 27th (local time) at the Holloway Gymnasium, Pur...

31 Aug 2026 | Monday | NEWS
SK hynix Reviews Chongqing Packaging Operations as AI Demand Drives HBM Expansion

South Korean memory semiconductor manufacturer SK hynix is reviewing the future of its packaging operations in Chongqing, China, as the company adjusts its manufacturing strategy to meet rapidly rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) memory. The review comes as SK hynix continues to increase its focus on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced packaging technologies, which have become in...

24 Aug 2026 | Monday | NEWS

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