China News Service, November 10, according to Yonhap News Agency, South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Finance Hong Namki said on the 9th that Samsung and SK Hynix submitted supply chain information to the US Department of Commerce and expressed their concerns to the US.
Kim Byung-joo, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea’s ruling party, asked at the plenary meeting of the Congressional Budget and Final Accounts Special Committee that the government formed a foreign economic security strategy meeting in response to the US request for semiconductor information.
Hong Nanji replied that in addition to himself, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy and the representatives of the Ministry of Trade and Industry also conveyed their concerns to their counterpart officials in the United States.
Hong Nanji said that as far as he knows, how much sensitive information is disclosed is "fully up to the enterprise's own judgment."
Data map: 3 nanometer 12-inch wafers from South Korea's Samsung.
Photo by Zhang Hengwei
In the name of investigating the semiconductor supply chain, the U.S. Department of Commerce required major chip giants to submit semiconductor inventory, order details, sales of various categories, and customer information before the 8th U.S. time.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said on the same day that they had submitted information that excluded sensitive content.
Hong Nanji hosted the second foreign economic security strategy meeting on the 7th and discussed plans to reduce pressure on South Korean chip manufacturers.