Sep 30, 2026, 13:45 UTC
US Representative John Moolenaar sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Trump administration to scrutinize South Korea's close ties with China, citing South Korean semiconductor investment in China and alleged lenient treatment of Chinese e-commerce platforms.
Sep 29, 2026, 13:50 UTC
U.S. stocks opened mixed on September 29, with the Dow down 0.03%, Nasdaq up 0.31% and S&P 500 up 0.16%; the storage sector rose collectively.
Source:Sep 29, 2026, 05:30 UTC
Hong Kong stock market short-selling turnover reached HK$17.88 billion in the half-day session on 2026-09-29, accounting for 23.8% of the HK$75.18 billion turnover of shortable shares, up from 21.5% the previous day.
Source:Sep 29, 2026, 03:59 UTC
Bain & Company's annual Global Technology Report projected that the global AI industry would need $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify current data-center capital spending, with data-center spending reaching $5-6.5 trillion by 2030 and AI infrastructure annual spending up to $1.5 trillion by 2031.
Source:Sep 28, 2026, 23:50 UTC
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are approaching their third-quarter earnings releases, with SK Hynix expected around October 27 and Samsung around October 29, though neither company has officially confirmed the dates.
Source:Sep 27, 2026, 19:49 UTC
Global Affairs Lab released two interactive casual games, "Silicon Road Dash" and "Security Threat: Ransom Run," addressing U.S.-South Korea economic ties and industrial cooperation.
Source:Sep 23, 2026, 18:45 UTC
Micron marked its 2 GB GDDR7 memory chips (28 Gbps and 32 Gbps versions) as end of life, discontinuing production and leaving only 3 GB modules in its GDDR7 catalog.
Sep 23, 2026, 13:31 UTC
Most popular stocks declined, with Nvidia down 0.24%, Apple up 0.35%, Alphabet Class A down 0.6%, Microsoft up 0.58%, Amazon down 0.92%, TSMC down 0.5%, SpaceX down 1.32%, Meta up 0.7%, Broadcom down 0.77%, Tesla up 0.79%, SK Hynix down 1.57%, Micron up 0.01%, AMD down 0.07%, ASML down 0.63%, Intel down 0.73%, Oracle down 1.01%, Cisco down 0.27%, Dell Technologies Class C up 2.35%, Arm down 0.07%, and SanDisk up 0.43%.
Source:Sep 21, 2026, 11:30 UTC
STARTRADER launched 49 new 24/7 stock and ETF CFDs on its MT5 servers, covering 30 US stocks, 14 ETFs and five USD-quoted foreign shares listed in mainland China, Hong Kong and South Korea.
Sep 20, 2026, 03:47 UTC
South Korea's average monthly wage for regular full-time workers rose 3.1% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, with semiconductor performance bonuses accounting for about one-third of the increase, according to a Korea Enterprises Federation report.
Sep 18, 2026, 06:03 UTC
SK Hynix established SK Hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley.
Sep 18, 2026, 01:14 UTC
SK Inc., the holding company of South Korea's SK Group, transferred three of its four vice chairmen — Seo Jin-Woo, Yu Jeong-Joon and Lee Hyung-Hee — to SK Hynix to advise on its overall operations and mid-to-long-term vision amid rising geopolitical uncertainty in the semiconductor industry.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 00:00 UTC
Intel shares rose about 4% and SK hynix shares gained around 3% on Wednesday, September 16, amid reports of their Ohio AI chip partnership talks.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 10:33 UTC
SK Hynix said it is reviewing options to enhance its competitiveness.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 06:52 UTC
Shannon Chip Creation stated on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Interactive Easy platform that its cooperation with core supplier SK Hynix remains good and stable.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 02:55 UTC
Major memory suppliers began volume production of PCIe Gen6 SSDs in 2026, while LPDDR6 is expected to enter production in the second half of 2026.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 01:14 UTC
SK Hynix shares rose 1.78% to 1.72 million won in South Korean trading after the company's union approved a revised compensation agreement.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 00:14 UTC
SK Hynix's labor-management agreement was approved in a re-vote by the union, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Sep 14, 2026, 11:05 UTC
The Bank of Korea reported that South Korea's nominal GDP grew 21.9% in the first half of 2026, with nearly 70% of the expansion coming from semiconductors, and revised its real GDP growth forecast upward to 3.3%-3.5% for the year.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 01:42 UTC
SK Hynix's second-quarter DRAM revenue rose 37.9% quarter-on-quarter to $38.59 billion, but its DRAM market share fell 3.9 percentage points to 24.9%, according to TrendForce data released on September 14, 2026.
Source:Sep 13, 2026, 21:30 UTC
South Korea expanded its espionage law to cover all foreign countries, effective September 13, allowing prosecution of those stealing national secrets for foreign entities with up to 30 years in prison.
Sep 10, 2026, 23:55 UTC
US startup Kepler emerged from seven years of stealth mode and announced a new 3D-stacked ferroelectric AI memory architecture that can be produced on existing 28nm fabs without EUV lithography, with samples to be offered starting this year and volume ramp planned at GlobalFoundries' Singapore plant in 2027 and in the US in 2028.
Source:Sep 10, 2026, 21:00 UTC
South Korea's revised law on industrial espionage takes effect this weekend, tightening defenses to protect advanced memory chip technology from Chinese rivals.
Sep 10, 2026, 06:58 UTC
SK Hynix management and its labor union reached a revised tentative agreement on compensation, adjusting the performance bonus payout mix to 50% cash and 50% stock from the previous 40% cash and 60% stock.
Sep 3, 2026, 10:00 UTC
Industry data for Q2 2026 shows SK hynix maintained the top position in the global HBM chip market with a 50% revenue share, while Samsung Electronics increased its share to 33% and Micron declined to 18%.
Aug 25, 2026, 13:46 UTC
US stock indices rose on Tuesday, with the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Philadelphia Semiconductor Index all trading higher, while Taiwan stock index futures and TSMC ADR also gained.
Aug 11, 2026, 14:00 UTC
SK Hynix's global DRAM revenue share dropped from 39% to 26% year-over-year in Q2 2026, despite a 214% revenue increase.
Source:Aug 10, 2026, 02:39 UTC
The Seoul High Court upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a former SK Hynix employee who leaked trade secrets related to CMOS image sensor technology to Chinese companies, including Huawei's chip unit HiSilicon.
Source:Jul 22, 2026, 23:18 UTC
South Korea's economy grew 0.6% quarter-on-quarter and 3.7% year-on-year in Q2 2026, slowing from Q1 but beating expectations, driven by chip exports.