Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Development of the Korean Semiconductor Industry

The semiconductor industry has occupied a big portion of the Korean economy. Semiconductors, particularly DRAM, have been one of the major export items for more than ten years...Korean semiconductor firms have become the leading chip makers in memory, especially in the DRAM market.

The Korean semiconductor industry began in 1960s. During the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, foreign investment was the driving force in the development of the Korean semiconductor industry...

During the 1970s, the HCI drive and an unstable semiconductor supply from Japan propelled the localization of technology...

The rapid development of the Korean semiconductor industry started in the early1980s when chaebols took the semiconductor business seriously...

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