August 17, 2026 -
By LEE Deokjoo, mk.co.kr
"For our system semiconductor ecosystem to grow, semiconductor design intellectual property (IP) companies must also grow."
Heo Seung-hoon, CEO of LeoLSI, recently stressed the importance of IP in an interview with Maeil Business Newspaper (MK). A former Samsung Electronics executive, he founded the analog semiconductor IP company in 2007 because he believed there were almost no IP companies in Korea at the time, but that the importance of semiconductor IP would continue to grow.