DB Insurance in talks to buy US auto insurer Fortegra in $1.5 billion deal

DB Insurance in talks to buy US auto insurer Fortegra in $1.5 billion deal

DB Insurance Co., a leading South Korean non-life insurance company, is in advanced talks to acquire US-based insurer Fortegra in a deal that could ...

DB Group eyes Hanyang Securities amid KCGI deal uncertainty

DB Group eyes Hanyang Securities amid KCGI deal uncertainty

DB Group, which owns DB Securities Co. and DB Insurance Co., is considering acquiring Hanyang Securities Co., as a deal by South Korean private equi...

DB Insurance becomes Daol Investment’s No.2 shareholder

DB Insurance becomes Daol Investment’s No.2 shareholder

DB Insurance Co., a leading South Korean non-life insurance company, has become Daol Investment & Securities Co.'s second-largest shareholder af...

DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market

DB GlobalChip forays into mobile phone OLED driver chip market

DB GlobalChip Co., the chip design subsidiary of South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co., has begun mass-producing organic light-emitt...

Meta in talks to acquire Korean fabless chip startup FuriosaAI: Forbes

Meta in talks to acquire Korean fabless chip startup FuriosaAI: Forbes

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent of Facebook and Instagram, is in talks to acquire Seoul-based AI chip startup FurisosaAI Inc. and the discussion cou...

Panmnesia raises $57 mn in Series A funding

Panmnesia raises $57 mn in Series A funding

Panmnesia, a South Korean fabless startup specializing in compute express link (CXL) technology, said on Tuesday it raised 80 billion won ($57 milli...

DB Insurance outshines domestic rivals in global business

DB Insurance outshines domestic rivals in global business

DB Insurance Co. raked in the biggest profits from overseas operations among South Korean insurance companies in the first half of this year, leadin...

KIDI to build insurance infrastructure in Vietnam

KIDI to build insurance infrastructure in Vietnam

The Korea Insurance Development Institute (KIDI) announced on Friday that it signed a business agreement with the Vietnam Insurance Development Inst...

Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds

Daewoong Pharmaceutical digitizes DB of 800 mn chemical compounds

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it has established a drug development system Daewoong AI System (DAISY) which combine...

Rebellions raises $124 mn to co-develop AI chip with Samsung

Rebellions raises $124 mn to co-develop AI chip with Samsung

South Korean fabless artificial intelligence chip startup Rebellions Inc.’s plan to co-develop the next-generation AI chip with the world&rsqu...

SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year

SeeDevice named Semiconductor Review’s Company of the Year

SILICON VALLEY -- SeeDevice Inc., a fabless image sensor developer famous for its quantum-effect CMOS (QMOS) sensors capable of expanding vision bey...

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Samsung Electronics bags AI chiplet foundry order from Tenstorrent

Canadian chip-designing unicorn Tenstorrent Inc. has become a new foundry customer of Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-biggest foun...

S.Korea names 20 fabless firms to receive government support

S.Korea names 20 fabless firms to receive government support

South Korea is set to bolster support for local fabless companies, which design and sell chips, with an aim to grow the firms into global semiconduc...

Samsung's new US chip fab wins first foundry order from Groq

Samsung's new US chip fab wins first foundry order from Groq

Samsung Electronics Co. has bagged the first foundry order for its new factory that will be up and running later next year in Taylor, Texas, from Am...

Fabless FADU taps institutional demand to raise about $151 mn

Fabless FADU taps institutional demand to raise about $151 mn

FADU Technology, the first unicorn in South Korea’s semiconductor sector, has embarked on a process to raise up to 193.8 billion won ($151 mil...

Samsung improves 4 nm foundry yields, on par with TSMC: analyst

Samsung improves 4 nm foundry yields, on par with TSMC: analyst

Samsung Electronics Co. has improved its chip foundry manufacturing yield for the 4-nanometer node to the level shown by its archrival Taiwan Semico...

KT to build hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure

KT to build hyperscale AI cloud infrastructure

South Korea has paved the way to use artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors based on neural processing units (NPU) on cloud platforms to conduc...

Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup

Hyundai, Kia invest extra $1.5 mn in automotive chip startup

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. announced on Wednesday that they have invested extra 2 billion won ($1.54 million) in BOS Semiconductors, a vehicle ...

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 9th largest insurance company

DB Insurance acquires Vietnam's 9th largest insurance company

DB Insurance Co., a South Korean non-life insurance company, announced on Friday that it has signed an acquisition agreement with the Saigon-Hanoi...

DB Group, T&T Group sign agreement for business corporation

DB Group, T&T Group sign agreement for business corporation

DB Group, South Korea's conglomerate, announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for business collaboration with Vi...

Samsung foundry backlogs top $74.6 bn for logic chip biz goal

Samsung foundry backlogs top $74.6 bn for logic chip biz goal

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 2 foundry player, has secured contract semiconductor manufacturing order backlogs of more than 100 tr...

ASICLAND, TSMC’s sole Korean partner, eyes 2023 IPO

ASICLAND, TSMC’s sole Korean partner, eyes 2023 IPO

ASICLAND Co. is the only South Korean semiconductor design house for the world’s largest foundry TSMC Co., which manufactures chips for about ...

S.Korean AI chip fabless Rebellions beats global chip giants in MLPerf tests

S.Korean AI chip fabless Rebellions beats global chip giants in MLPerf tests

Rebellions Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence chip design startup, beat global chip giants Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Nvidia Corp. in ...

KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

KCGI’s ascent to intensify family feud over DB control; DB stocks rally

A sibling feud over management control of DB Group is expected to intensify following the ascent of South Korean activist fund Korea Corporate Gover...

S.Korean activist fund KCGI eyes foundry DB HiTek buyout

S.Korean activist fund KCGI eyes foundry DB HiTek buyout

Korea Corporate Governance Improvement Fund (KCGI) is eyeing a controlling stake in DB HiTek Co. as the activist fund became the second-largest shar...

Chip foundry DB HiTek's stock near 10-month peak on activist fund

Chip foundry DB HiTek's stock near 10-month peak on activist fund

South Korean leading foundry chipmaker DB HiTek’s stock price hit a near 10-month high this week as a domestic activist fund bought a stake to...

DB HiTek mulls $780 mn capex in foundry after fabless demerger

DB HiTek mulls $780 mn capex in foundry after fabless demerger

South Korea’s chip foundry company DB HiTek Co. is mulling about 1 trillion won ($780 million) in capital expenditures to enhance its foundry ...

DB HiTek sees capacity utilization rate rise to 80%

DB HiTek sees capacity utilization rate rise to 80%

South Korea's semiconductor foundry company DB HiTek Co. last month saw its capacity utilization rate rise to the mid-80% level thanks to rising dem...

S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

S.Korea's DB HiTek to split off fabless, bulk up foundry business

DB HiTek Co., a leading chipmaker in South Korea, said on March 7 it is set to split off its fabless unit by May 2 to ramp up its foundry business.D...

FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm

FADU joins ranks of unicorns as S.Korea’s first fabless chip firm

FADU Technology has become South Korea’s first fabless semiconductor unicorn after successfully raising funds from share sales before its init...

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