South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots(arstechnica.com)

227 points by jnord 4 months ago | 154 comments

TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer(asia.nikkei.com)

113 points by alok-g 2 years ago | 85 comments

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan(apnews.com)

183 points by dev_tty01 8 months ago | 134 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI(chosun.com)

257 points by geox 2 months ago | 75 comments

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators(thelec.net)

46 points by peter_d_sherman 1 month ago | 12 comments

Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy(rfi.fr)

169 points by giuliomagnifico 4 months ago | 49 comments

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM(en.sedaily.com)

542 points by giuliomagnifico 1 month ago | 422 comments

Seoul Economic Daily article reporting Samsung plans to double HBM4 output next year, expanding HBM capacity to 250,000 wafers a month.

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access(theregister.com)

338 points by saikatsg 6 months ago | 95 comments

The Register article on South Korea's scheme giving mobile subscribers unlimited 400 Kbps data after allowances expire, agreed by SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus.

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries(tech.supercarblondie.com)

663 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 175 comments

Tech news article about a Japanese method that recovers up to 90% of the lithium from used electric vehicle batteries.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

116 points by mushstory 20 days ago | 98 comments

Yomiuri Shimbun news article reporting that China surpassed the U.S. as the world's top R&D spender in 2024, citing Japanese science ministry data.

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing(en.sedaily.com)

360 points by donohoe 4 months ago | 170 comments

Seoul Economic Daily article on a US lawsuit accusing Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of memory price fixing; the page returned a CloudFront 403 error.