South Korea's southwest chip hub plan faces supplier gap

Digitimes
Jun 30, 2026, 11:58 pm119 ptsTrending
South Korea's plan to build a KRW800 trillion (approx. US$51 billion) memory fab cluster in the southwestern Honam region is running into an inconvenient fact: the region has the country's weakest base of semiconductor materials, components, and equipment suppliers, according to government data submitted to…

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