Bain Entity Becomes Kioxia’s Largest Shareholder as Toshiba Trims Stake
Kioxia Holdings said Monday that Toshiba had cut its stake in the memory chip maker to about 14.12% from 14.48% as of Aug. 3, a small sale that nonetheless redrew…
Samsung and SK Hynix Test Chinese Chip Equipment, Testing Export Controls
SEOUL–The equipment that makes the world’s most advanced memory chips has been at the center of the United States’ campaign to slow China’s semiconductor industry, and Washington has spent years…
SK Hynix Ex-Employee Gets 18 Months for Chip Leak
SEOUL–The trial lasted more than a year, and the technology at issue was worth more than most criminal cases in South Korea: manufacturing know-how for semiconductor memory, the industry that…
SK Hynix Dismisses Report of Chongqing Plant Sale
SEOUL–Rumors about the future of SK Hynix’s packaging plant in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing have circulated for weeks inside the memory industry. On Aug. 10, the company responded,…
Samsung’s HBM4 Yield Push Pressures SK Hynix
SEOUL–Inside Samsung Electronics’ memory fabrication plants, the metric engineers watch most closely shifted this summer. The company’s HBM4 production yield, a measure of how many of the advanced memory chips…
iPhone 17 Price Rise Expected as Memory Costs Bite
Apple could raise prices on its iPhone 17 lineup as soon as Monday, August 10, according to reports that circulated across tech media over the weekend. The claim originated with…
SK Hynix Weighs Exit From Its Chongqing Packaging Plant
SK Hynix is evaluating options for its semiconductor packaging plant in Chongqing, China, a facility with a book value of about $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.…
SanDisk Signs Eight Long-Term Memory Supply Deals
MILPITAS, Calif.—SanDisk’s chief executive has spent years listening to customers describe their demand in three-month windows, and he says the era of short planning horizons is over. Speaking on the…
Nvidia Weighs Memory Cut for Rubin Ultra GPU
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The fastest product in Nvidia’s history is running late, and the company is now weighing a compromise. According to people familiar with the matter, Nvidia is considering reducing…
SK Hynix Plans Record 54 Trillion Won Investment in Korea
SEOUL—The two-page disclosure landed on South Korea’s stock exchange shortly after the opening bell on Aug. 7, and by lunchtime it had become the most-watched filing in the country’s chip…
