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Korean chipmakers DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market

DB GlobalChip Co., the chip design subsidiary of South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co., has begun mass-producing organic light-emitt...

Mergers & Acquisitions Meta in talks to acquire Korean fabless chip startup FuriosaAI: Forbes

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent of Facebook and Instagram, is in talks to acquire Seoul-based AI chip startup FurisosaAI Inc. and the discussion cou...

Korean startups Panmnesia raises $57 mn in Series A funding

Panmnesia, a South Korean fabless startup specializing in compute express link (CXL) technology, said on Tuesday it raised 80 billion won ($57 milli...

Korean chipmakers Rebellions raises $124 mn to co-develop AI chip with Samsung

South Korean fabless artificial intelligence chip startup Rebellions Inc.’s plan to co-develop the next-generation AI chip with the world&rsqu...

Korean startups SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year

SILICON VALLEY -- SeeDevice Inc., a fabless image sensor developer famous for its quantum-effect CMOS (QMOS) sensors capable of expanding vision bey...

Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Canadian chip-designing unicorn Tenstorrent Inc. has become a new foundry customer of Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-biggest foun...

Korean chipmakers S.Korea names 20 fabless firms to receive government support

South Korea is set to bolster support for local fabless companies, which design and sell chips, with an aim to grow the firms into global semiconduc...

Korean chipmakers Samsung's new US chip fab wins first foundry order from Groq

Samsung Electronics Co. has bagged the first foundry order for its new factory that will be up and running later next year in Taylor, Texas, from Am...

Upcoming IPOs Fabless FADU taps institutional demand to raise about $151 mn

FADU Technology, the first unicorn in South Korea’s semiconductor sector, has embarked on a process to raise up to 193.8 billion won ($151 mil...

Korean chipmakers Samsung improves 4 nm foundry yields, on par with TSMC: analyst

Samsung Electronics Co. has improved its chip foundry manufacturing yield for the 4-nanometer node to the level shown by its archrival Taiwan Semico...

Artificial intelligence KT to build hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure

South Korea has paved the way to use artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors based on neural processing units (NPU) on cloud platforms to conduc...

Automobiles Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that they have invested extra 2 billion won ($1.54 million) in BOS Semiconductors, a vehicle ...

Korean chipmakers Samsung foundry backlogs top $74.6 bn for logic chip biz goal

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 2 foundry player, has secured contract semiconductor manufacturing order backlogs of more than 100 tr...

Korean startups ASICLAND, TSMC’s sole Korean partner, eyes 2023 IPO

ASICLAND Co. is the only South Korean semiconductor design house for the world’s largest foundry TSMC Co., which manufactures chips for about ...

Korean chipmakers S.Korean AI chip fabless Rebellions beats global chip giants in MLPerf tests

Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, beat global chip giants Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Nvidia Corp. in ...

Korean chipmakers DB HiTek mulls $780 mn capex in foundry after fabless demerger

South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co. is mulling about 1 trillion won ($780 million) in capital expenditures to enhance its foundry ...

Korean chipmakers S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

DB HiTek Co., a leading chipmaker in South Korea, said on March 7 it is set to split off its fabless unit by May 2 to ramp up its foundry business.D...

Korean startups FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm

FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...

Tech, Media & Telecom FuriosaAI speeds up development of next-gen AI chip with Hugging Face  

FuriosaAI Inc., South Korea’s fabless chip designer, has teamed up with Hugging Face Inc., a New York-based AI company boasting a massive tran...

Korean chipmakers Chip foundry DB HiTek pulls the plug on fabless division spinoff plan

DB HiTek Co. has pulled the plug on the possible spinoff of its fabless division, named the brand business department. The decision comes on the bac...

Future mobility Hyundai Motor Group to invest in fabless startup BOS Semiconductors 

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Wednesday that it will invest in Seongnam-based fabless startup BOS Semiconductors, which designs system-on-chip (S...

Korean startups KT injects $23 mn into fabless startup Rebellions

South Korean fabless startup Rebellions Inc. received a 30 billion won ($23 million) extension to its Series A funding from telecom giant KT Corp.KT...

Venture capital Fabless startup Rebellions raises $50 mn in Series A

South Korea’s leading fabless startup Rebellions Inc. announced Friday it raised 62 billion won ($50 million) in Series A or the first round o...

Korean startups Fabless startup FADU eyes unicorn status with $157 mn funding

FADU Technology, a fabless startup that develops architecture for solid-state drive (SSD) controllers and storage products, is seeking to raise 200 ...

Korean chipmakers Samsung flexes foundry muscle amid supply chain woes

Samsung Electronics Co. may emerge a winner in the prolonged pandemic era, making full use of fabless chipmakers' efforts to diversify the manufactu...

Korean fabless startups take center stage, attracts VCs

South Korean fabless startups have taken center stage, attracting venture capital firms and institutional investors thanks to their advanced technol...

Korean chipmakers Taiwanese fabless firms outwit Korean rivals in chip supercycle

Taiwanese fabless semiconductor firms, with backing from their hometown foundry companies, are reaping the benefits of higher chip prices and soarin...