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Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation's chip makers – now build processors (www.theregister.com)
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South Korea's president has described the global semiconductor industry as "a field where all-out national warfare is underway" as he announced a $19 billion to diversify the nation's silicon sector.

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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The world's top two memory chip producers are South Korea's two largest conglomerates (chaebol), Samsung Electronics and the less well-known SK Hynix. Together, they account for some 70% of the market in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and 50% in flash memory (NAND).

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So the article says, but i think this money is for CPUs?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

i was responding to you asking if Samsung would get the lions share, it's safe to assume yes.