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SK Hynix had infused about $181.93m into a PE fund last year that owns the chip contract manufacturing firm.

Message : Required fields SEOUL (Reuters) - SK Hynix Inc, the world's second-largest memory chip maker, has requestd talks to acquire South Korea-based Key Foundry, a chip contract manufacturer, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday. SK Hynix has expressed intention to negotiate for the full acquisition of the 8-inch wafer foundry, Korea Economic Daily reported on Monday citing unnamed sources in the tech and investment banking industries. SK Hynix said that it is considering various measures to expand its foundry business, but nothing has been finalised. A spokesperson for Key Fou...

[ANALYSIS] SK hynix unlikely to acquire GlobalFoundries Posted : 2021-05-16 15:55 By Kim Yoo-chul After its chief executive Park Jung-ho clarified that SK hynix plans to double the capacity of its foundry (contract-based chip fabrication), investors have been saying that the world's No. 2 memory chipmaker will "soon" try to invest in a foundry chip-making company. SK has a very stable position in terms of profit-seeking in the global memory chip market, where it trails only market leader Samsung Electronics. The global memory chip market has already been rationalized with three major player...

Search Price Increase by Foundry Companies Causing a Short Supply and an Increased Financial Burden on Fabless Companies South Korean and foreign foundry semiconductor companies have been raising their prices on consignment production of semiconductors one after the other. As a result, there is now financial pressure in addition to short supply from delay in delivery date not only on fabless companies that assign foundry companies with production of semiconductors, but also on the electronics industry that includes IT device manufacturers such as smartphones and data centers. Companies such ...