SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in SK hynix Inc. plunged on concerns over a slowdown in the memory market, analysts here said Friday, as they lowered the target price for South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker. SK hynix closed at 94,000 won (US$78) on the Seoul bourse after a 1.78 percent decline, so far [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled an open source-based software development kit to expand the Compute Express Link (CXL) memory ecosystem. CXL is an open industry-standard interconnect based on the PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 interface that enables high-speed, low latency communication between the host processor and devices, such as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled its technology road map for the foundry business as the company vowed to improve its capacity and advanced manufacturing solutions in the contract chipmaking sector. At the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021, which was held online under the theme of “Adding one more dimension,” [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained in second place in the global smartphone image sensor market in the first half of the year, a report showed Tuesday, although its share declined from a year earlier. Samsung captured a 25 percent revenue share in the first six months of the year, down [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean startup Furiosa AI said Thursday that its first silicon chip Warboy has surpassed a similar Nvidia chip on the MLPerf’s inference benchmark scores. MLPerf is a global annual artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor benchmark event hosted by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other leading businesses and research institutions. Furiosa AI [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s leading tech firm, unveiled a series of YouTube videos to introduce domestic semiconductor plants as well as to offer a full glimpse of the process of producing and distribution chips. Mainly targeting the “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to be the largest spender on chip fabrication facility equipment next year, a report showed Wednesday, amid its push to expand its semiconductor supply chain. The country, home to memory giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., is estimated to invest US$30 billion in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to defend its top spot in global semiconductor sales in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Sunday, on the back of strong memory demand. Samsung, the world’s largest memory supplier, was projected to log US$22.32 billion in semiconductor sales in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading memory chip producer, on Wednesday said it has released new microSD cards with enhanced performance and durability. The South Korean tech giant introduced new PRO Plus and EVO Plus microSD cards for expanded storage on devices including smartphones, tablets, action cameras and drones. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LX Semicon Co., South Korea’s largest fabless semiconductor firm, said Wednesday it will collaborate with Microsoft Corp. to develop 3D sensing solutions. LX Semicon will take Microsoft’s 3D time-of-flight (ToF) sensing technology to develop solutions for Internet of Things (IoT), logistics and automobiles as the company joins the Microsoft [...]