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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was the world’s second-largest spender on chip equipment in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, amid a global semiconductor shortage. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., invested US$6.62 billion in chipmaking equipment in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. lost its share in the smartphone chipset market in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Tuesday, as Taiwanese brands expanded their presence with a rise in the 5G device sector. Samsung, which makes Exynos chipsets, took a 7 percent share in the global [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM prices in the spot market have recently been declining amid expectations for weaker demand stemming from widening COVID-19 vaccinations around the globe, industry sources said Wednesday. According to market tracker DRAMeXchange, the average contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAMs for PCs came to US$3.889 on Monday, the lowest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its lead in the global NAND flash market in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, on the back of strong chip demand and price hikes. The South Korean tech giant posted a market share of 34 percent in terms of revenue [...]