The sharp confrontation between the US and China in high-tech industries continues. Securing and protecting the competitiveness of advanced technologies such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging as key issues in external economic security, and the US government...

■ Korea's semiconductor exports have been heavily concentrated in the highly volatile memory sector, making the industry more vulnerable to downturns.- As of 2022, the proportion of the highly volatile memory semiconductor sector within Korea's semiconductor market was more than twice that of...

This article uses a nonparametric production frontier approach to investigate the operating efficiency differences by the impacts of capital expenditure and business model in the global semiconductor industry. Handling the impact of capital expenditure as a fixed input by the directional...