SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, is expected to deliver strong second-quarter earnings, analysts here said Friday, due to a rise in memory chip prices. SK hynix was estimated to log 9.92 trillion won (US$8.6 billion) in sales in the April-June period, up 15.3 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea had the second-largest monthly capacity of 200-millimeter-equivalent wafers last year behind Taiwan, a report showed Wednesday. The country, home to major chipmakers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., had a capacity of 4.25 million wafers per month, accounting for 20.4 percent of global wafer capacity [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday released a new automotive image sensor as the tech giant eyes to expand its presence beyond the mobile sector. The ISOCELL Auto 4AC will be used for rear-view cameras and surround-view monitors of a vehicle and offer high-definition resolution images. Samsung’s latest image sensor [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for nearly half of the global smartphone memory market in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, as it tries to boost its presence in 5G devices. The South Korean tech giant, the world’s top memory chip producer, dominated the market with [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics components maker in South Korea, on Tuesday said it has developed a high-capacity multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) to be applicable to 5G devices. The company said its new 1050-size (length 1mm and width 0.5mm) MLCC boasts the industry’s largest power capacity of 27 [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The global memory chip market is forecast to increase 32 percent this year, a report showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. Sales growth for the DRAM market is expected to reach 41 percent in 2021, the second largest among 33 integrated circuit (IC) [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday released a new multi-chip package (MCP) memory product for use in 5G smartphones as the South Korean tech giant tries to better target the fast-growing handset market. The world’s largest memory chip producer said it has begun mass-producing low-power double data rate 5 (LPDDR5) [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced a new mobile image sensor, the industry’s smallest pixel size, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its presence in the non-memory sector. The 50-million megapixel ISOCELL JN1 is the industry’s first 0.64-micrometer pixel image sensor that can deliver ultra-high [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed an 8-nanometer (nm) process technology for radio frequency (RF) chips as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its foundry service for 5G mobile semiconductors. Samsung said its 8nm foundry will deliver 5G single-chip RF solutions supporting sub-6-gigahertz to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of memory chips, notably DRAM and NAND flash, are likely to continue to rise in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. DRAM prices are expected to increase further by 3-8 percent quarter-on-quarter in the [...]