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Market observers in Korea express scepticism towards the impact of Japan’s bid to boost industry and the chip production goal on South Korean chipmakers SEOUL (ANN/THE KOREA HERALD) – In the 1980s, Japan was the dominant supplier of semiconductors, accounting for more than half of the global market. In a bid to regain its former […]

Japan, which supplied more than half of semiconductors in the global market in the 1980s, is now seen revamping its strategy to reclaim past glory, introducing state subsidies and setting an ambitious goal to mass produce the most cutting-edge chips. As geopolitics is playing out to reshape the global semiconductors industry -- mainly the intense rivalry between the US and China -- eyes are on whether Japan will come...

After painful exits and bankruptcies, the global memory chip market has consolidated with three rational players - Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK hynix and the U.S.' Micron Technology. These structural market changes are truly responsible for the memory chip segment's bullish performance over the last few years.

In game theory, the game of chicken primarily involves two drivers, with vehicles on a converging route. The driver who risks a direct collision is the winner while the driver who swerves out of the way is the loser - not to mention labeled a coward. The danger, of course, is that both drivers firmly believe that the other will swerve first and consequently collide. Both can lose more than just the game. In the case of a collision, the size of the vehicles and their capacity in terms of bearing the impact are significant.

TOKYO -- U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology will start mass-producing advanced DRAM memory chips at its Hiroshima plant by the end of the year, Chief Bu