South Korea is lagging behind or matching China in “basic competency” in five areas of semiconductor technology, including memory chips and artificial intelligence (AI) chips, according to a ...

[YONHAP] China has upped its pressure on North Korea with crackdowns on North Korean workers in the country in apparent irritation at Pyongyang's deepening involvement in Russia's war on Ukraine.

China has also narrowed the gap with South Korea in advanced chip packaging technologies, the report says, as the two countries achieved the same score of 74.2 in basic competency, after the US ...