Jung-hee Kim, Gounee Yang

Global Economic News

SK Hynix, a leading firm in the memory semiconductor market, will expand its business into the non-memory semiconductor market by making image sensors.

The image sensor, which plays a role of “eyes” in various IT devices such as smartphone cameras, currently sees fierce competition between Sony and Samsung Electronics.

A latecomer in the image sensor market, SK Hynix aims to boost its research and development capabilities and productivity to lead the higher high-pixel image sensor market.

“The contact image sensor [CIS] will be one of the important sectors of SK Hynix’s growth area and our next goal is to achieve a leading position in the CIS business,” said SK Hynix’s CIS business vice president Song Chang-rok.