An automotive semiconductor is displayed at an exhibition held in central Seoul on May 20, 2025. [YONHAP]
Despite Korea’s semiconductor industry emerging as a memory powerhouse amid the AI chip boom, the country continues to lag in automotive chips.
U.S. chipmaker Micron led the global automotive memory chip market with a 51.7 percent share based on 2024 revenue, according to the Korea Automotive Technology Institute on Tuesday.
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Samsung Electronics ranked second at 16.8 percent, while SK hynix ranked fifth at just 3 percent. The figures show that Samsung Electronics and SK hynix — the top two players in the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry — have yet to secure a meaningful foothold in automotive memory semiconductors.
