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Mergers & Acquisitions Doosan enters race to acquire SK Siltron in strategic semiconductor push

South Korea’s Doosan Group has entered the bidding war for SK Siltron Co., the world’s third-largest manufacturer of semiconductor wafer...

Mergers & Acquisitions Hahn & Co. buys SK Enpulse’s chip wafer polishing pad business

Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. has agreed to buy the chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pads manufacturing division of SK Enpulse C...

Business & Politics Korea’s SK Siltron receives $544 mn loan from DOE for wafer investment

South Korea’s SK Siltron Co. has secured a $544 million loan from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to invest in a high-quality silicon carbid...

Tech, Media & Telecom Samsung, LG, Sony vie for mixed-reality OLED display market

Samsung Display Co., LG Display Co. and Sony Corp. — the world’s three leading display panel makers — are ratcheting up efforts to...

Carbon neutrality SK Siltron gets 20% of electricity from renewable energy

South Korea’s SK Siltron on Sunday said it procured 19.5% of the electricity it used last year from renewable energy. “In 2020, we were...

Energy Hanwha to build largest US solar energy hub for $2.5 bn

South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions Corp. said on Wednesday that it will invest 3.2 trillion won ($2.5 billion) to build the largest solar energy p...

Korean chipmakers Biden hails SK Siltron’s investment in Michigan as 'game changer'

BAY CITY, Michigan – For the first time since taking office, United States President Joe Biden toured a US subsidiary of South Korean conglome...

Korean chipmakers SK Siltron, UK's IQE to produce high-efficiency wafers for Asian market

South Korean silicon wafer maker SK Siltron Co. has teamed up with UK-based wafer products supplier IQE plc to produce gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxi...

Korean chipmakers Korea's SK Siltron to invest $597 mn in silicon wafer production

South Korea’s SK Siltron Co. will invest 855 billion won ($597.4 million) to expand its 300-millimeter (12-inch) silicon wafer manufacturing f...

Business & Politics Yoon, Biden highlight 'economic security alliance' following Samsung tour

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and visiting US President Joe Biden emphasized the two countries' iron-clad commitment to economic security all...

Mergers & Acquisitions SK Hynix considers joint acquisition of UK chip designer Arm

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc. is considering forming a consortium with other strategic investors to buy Arm Ltd., a British semiconductor design compa...

Korean chipmakers SK Siltron to invest $300 mn in US capacity expansion

Auburn, Michigan – South Korea’s silicon wafer maker SK Siltron Co. will invest $300 million to increase production capacity by ten time...

Korean chipmakers SK Siltron to ramp up silicon wafer output from 2024

South Korean silicon wafer maker SK Siltron Co. on Wednesday announced a plan to spend 1 trillion won ($810 million) on its domestic capacity expans...

Korean chipmakers China, Japan, Korea race for wafer capacity expansion

China, Japan and South Korea are racing for expanding wafer production as surging chip demand and increase in semiconductor makers’ capacity t...

Korean chipmakers LG Innotek, Samsung Electro-Mechanics benefit from wafer shortage

South Korea’s semiconductor substrate producers including LG Innotek and Samsung Electro-Mechanics are benefiting as a global wafer shortage...

Korean chipmakers SK Siltron to ramp up wafer production from 2022

SK Group’s silicon wafer affiliate SK Siltron Co. is planning to expand wafer production facilities amid growing demand from the global chip m...