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Site confirmed at Gwangju Military Airport while its union fights the plan; upgrading its China memory plant as US tariff pressure builds
South Korea's chip buildout is starting to produce contracts. On August 10 the government said it would launch a 5 trillion won ($3.5 billion) fund for chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless firms, add 5 trillion won of trade finance, and pass a special act this year to speed the new manufacturing hubs. On September 29, Korea Land and Housing Corporation awarded a Daewoo E&C-led consortium the $639 million first-phase works at the Yongin complex, where Samsung's first fab there is planned.
Updated 13 hours ago
Record Q2 profits driving the rise in corporate surplus funds
South Korean companies held 67.1 trillion won in surplus financial assets at the end of June, more than triple the record they set three months earlier, fueled by memory chip profits at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. The boom has carried into the third quarter: the current account surplus hit $46.11 billion in August, near its all-time record, and September exports surged to a record $120.94 billion as chip prices rose more than 100%.
Updated Oct 9
Developing zHBM, currently shipping HBM4
Samsung has shown a working prototype of zHBM, a memory architecture that stacks high-bandwidth memory directly on top of AI accelerators. The design removes the interposer, the silicon bridge that currently carries data between logic and memory chips placed side by side.
Updated Sep 10
Main foldable rival
For two years, Google made buyers wait. The standard Pixel phones shipped in August, and the foldable followed weeks later. On August 20, 2026, that ended: the Pixel 11 Pro Fold reached customers the same day as the rest of the Pixel 11 line.
Updated Aug 20
Chief rival; shipped HBM4E samples three weeks earlier
Modern AI chips can crunch numbers faster than memory can feed them data. On June 18, 2026, SK hynix said it shipped samples of HBM4E, a stacked memory chip built to narrow that gap, to major customers.
Updated Jun 18
Largest KOSPI-listed company by market cap; ramping HBM4 production to close gap with SK Hynix
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI stock index crossed 6,000 points for the first time on February 25, 2026. It completed its climb from 5,000 to 6,000 in just 34 trading days, the fastest thousand-point advance in the index's history.
Updated May 29
Launched Galaxy S26 series, pursuing 800 million AI device target
Two years ago, Samsung declared its Galaxy S24 the 'world's first AI phone.' On February 25, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 with three competing AI assistants running simultaneously, a privacy display that physically blocks shoulder surfers at the pixel level, and a 100-trillion-operation processor. The company is rebuilding phones around AI as the core organizing principle.
First to put live systolic and diastolic readings on a smartwatch
Oura's fifth-generation smart ring went on sale Thursday with blood pressure monitoring and on-demand telehealth access, starting at $399. The Ring 5 is 40% smaller than its predecessor and monitors nighttime blood pressure shifts that can warn of cardiovascular strain.
Committed to fixed profit-sharing for the first time
Samsung Electronics has run for 57 years without ever tying a fixed share of profits to worker pay. That changed Wednesday.
Updated May 27
Second-place HBM competitor, planning 50% capacity increase
For decades, chip packaging was the unglamorous final step—stacking and connecting silicon dies after the real engineering was done. Now it's the constraint holding back AI.
Updated May 20
Leading AI home appliance integration with Google partnership
Samsung just put Google's Gemini AI inside a refrigerator. Not alongside it, not as an app—built directly into the hardware.
Updated May 19
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