Nikkei News reported that South Korean Ministry of commerce industry announced the 15, from the Chinese memory demand, driven by the 2017 February South Korea semiconductor exports compared with the same month last year soared by nearly 6 (57% increase) amount to $6 billion 500 million, the second consecutive month hit a record high in history.

On the project point of view, in February, South Korea DRAM, NAND Flash and other "memory" product exports amounted to $4 billion 200 million, compared with the same month last year soared by more than 8 into the LSI system semiconductor products exports amounted to $1 billion 800 million.

On the export country, in February the amount of South Korea's exports to China amounted to $4 billion 300 million, accounting for nearly 7 of the overall proportion.

South Korea semiconductor exports in July 2016, mostly maintained at about 40-55 million, but since last August began to set foot on the go up tone, in January this year to $6 billion 400 million in ascension.

BusinessKorea 15 reported that Samsung Electronics decided to hit $8 billion 700 million, expanding the South Korean city of DRAM production capacity. Samsung said that the new production line takes about two years to build, depending on the progress of the research and development process and the conversion rate, the decision to produce 18NM process DRAM, or more advanced process DRAM.

Samsung Electronics representatives said Samsung DRAM gross margin of more than 45%, despite the high price of Samsung products, but because of superior quality, better than competitors in the market demand. Samsung is the memory overlord, last year accounted for 48% of the global DRAM market.