An extremely expensive game of one-upmanship is being played out in the semiconductor industry where the winners will look like heroes and the rest may not even survive.
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Intel has agreed to sell its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix for US$9-billion in an all-cash deal that would propel the South Korean chip maker to second in the global rankings.
Huawei has asked Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for a stable memory chip supply despite apparently mounting pressure from the US to isolate the Chinese telecommunications company.
Investors have grown increasingly bullish on Samsung Electronics ahead of its Tuesday results report, betting that the global memory-chip cycle is near a bottom.
Japan and South Korea are showing no signs of resolving an escalating trade dispute, which traces back to 1910. It now poses a threat to the world’s technology supply chain.
A massive fire on Wednesday at a factory in Wuxi, China owned by Korea’s SK Hynix could send flash memory and random-access memory (RAM) prices soaring. Hynix is the world’s second largest memory manufacturer. According to early reports on Chinese technology news websites and blogs, the fire has