SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share in the smartphone chipset market dropped in the fourth quarter, research showed Thursday, amid efforts to restructure the company’s smartphone portfolio strategy. The South Korean tech giant, which makes Exynos chipsets, accounted for four percent of the global shipments of smartphone application processor (AP) and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers will be affected by export controls that Washington imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but the impact is not likely to be significant, experts said Friday. The U.S. Commerce Department announced new sanctions Thursday that it said “will severely restrict Russia’s access to technologies and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine could disrupt supply of raw materials, potentially exacerbating the ongoing global chip shortage, analysts said Thursday. Russia and Ukraine produce raw materials, such as neon, used in chipmaking processes, raising concerns that the escalating tension could disrupt the supply of key materials. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global DRAM shipments dropped nearly 6 percent in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, a report showed Friday, amid sluggish demand from manufacturers that had hoarded up the key consumer electronics component over continued chip shortages. DRAM shipments during the October-December period were valued at US$25 billion, down [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s chipmakers vowed to expand their domestic investment this year to more than a combined 56.7 trillion won (US$47.36 billion) amid heated global competition and supply chain disruptions, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The plan was announced by the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association based on a recent survey [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, is now the main sponsor for the domestic tournament of mega-hit video game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” organized by Krafton Inc. A total of 128 influencers participated in the tournament held last weekend. The world’s largest DRAM producer marketed its Double Data Rate [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top two chipmakers — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — have been having difficulty procuring equipment essential to the operation of their chip fabrication facilities. Both companies mentioned the prolonged lead time, the time it takes for a product or service to go through all [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Friday reported strong fourth-quarter earnings, helped by solid memory chip demand for servers and smartphones. Net profit for the three months that ended in December leaped 87.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.31 trillion won (US$2.8 billion). Operating profit [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its chipmaking facility in the Chinese city of Xi’an has returned to normal as the city has lifted a lockdown. The world’s largest memory chip maker had temporarily adjusted operations at its NAND flash chips manufacturing base late last month following the lockdown in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled an advanced mobile application processor in the latest move to bolster its minimal presence in the global mobile application processor market. Samsung said the new processor, the Exynos 2200, is built on the most advanced 4-nanometer extreme ultraviolet lithography process and is empowered [...]