Chae-yeon Kim

5 days ago | kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim

SK Hynix Inc. surpassed 200 trillion won ($147 billion) in market capitalization on Tuesday, becoming the second Korean stock in history to cross the threshold after Samsung Electronics Co.On Tuesday, the share price of SK Hynix jumped 7.32% to close at 278,500 won, outperforming the 2.96% gain in the broader Kospi index and the 4.31% rise in Samsung Electronics. Its market capitalization climbed to 202.75 trillion won based on the closing price, doubling in one and a half years.

5 days ago | kedglobal.com | Eui-Myung Park |Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim

LS Electric Co., a South Korean industrial system supplier, is poised to deliver a large volume of power control equipment, including switchgears and circuit breakers, to Vertiv Co., a leading provider of liquid-cooling solutions used in Nvidia Corp.'s AI servers. LS Electric is in the final stages of negotiating the terms of the supply agreement with the world’s largest liquid-cooling system supplier, according to sources with knowledge of the matter on Monday.

2 months ago | kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading memory chipmaker, is in talks to supply customized sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM4, chips to major AI chipmakers, including Nvidia Corp., Broadcom Inc. and Google LLC. The South Korean tech giant expects to begin supplying HBM4 to its clients as early as the first half of 2026, company executives and industry sources said on Wednesday.

2 months ago | kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim

Samsung Display Co., the display-making unit under Samsung Electronics Co., will exclusively supply organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for Apple Inc.’s first foldable iPhone series, which are expected to hit the market late next year. As the South Korean display giant is chosen as the sole provider for the world’s No. 1 smartphone seller, it is projected to cement its lead in the global foldable OLED display market with a share of more than 70% versus the current about 40%.

2 months ago | kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim

Samsung Electronics Co. has appointed TM Roh, president and head of its mobile eXperience (MX) business, as the new chief of its device eXperience (DX) division, filling a leadership vacuum left by the South Korean tech giant’s late Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee’s sudden death about a week ago. Roh’s appointment signals Samsung’s more aggressive push in artificial intelligence across its set business, encompassing smartphones, TVs and other home appliances.