Yang Hyang-ja helped shape Samsung’s dominance in global memory chip making, now she’s fighting to stop it from becoming collateral damage in the US tech war with China.
In three decades at Samsung Electronics, Yang Hyang-ja helped shape the 84-year-old conglomerate’s present dominance in global memory chip making. Now, she’s taking on a far broader challenge: ensuring Korea remains relevant as theMs Yang, who rose from a researcher’s assistant at the storied company before heading the key memory chip development division, is the lead architect of a nationwide effort to fund and galvanise its domestic chip industry.
Ms Yang, who leads a 13-member special committee that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ruling party formed this year to brainstorm a solution, has argued that only through strong and direct intervention can Seoul expand its position in the $US550 billion global semiconductor industry. She’s one of a growing number of global policymakers who have embraced tech protectionism after pandemic-driven logistics snarls highlighted a country’s dependence on one another for key electronic components.
But Seoul has sidestepped explicit comments regarding its commitment to the Biden administration’s sanctions on exports of US-affiliated know-how to China.
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