SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, on Tuesday denied a rumor that it is facing damage worth 2 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) over defective DRAMs, saying that it has requested a police probe into such a cyber libel. The rumor over SK hynix’s possible loss has been [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. aims to expand the use of its seventh generation V-NAND chip solutions, a senior executive said Tuesday, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to bolster its technology prowess in the memory sector. In the second half of the year, the world’s leading memory chip maker [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of enterprise solid state drives (SSDs) are likely to increase sharply in the third quarter of the year due to robust demand from server companies, a report showed Friday, boding well for top memory chip producer Samsung Electronics Co. Contract prices of enterprise SSDs for the July-September period [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Thursday that all of its semiconductor facilities have earned triple standard recognition from global environment certification leader Carbon Trust. Samsung said its nine chip facilities worldwide have received the Carbon Trust Triple Standard label for their efforts to reduce [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea was the world’s largest spender on chip equipment in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, amid a global semiconductor shortage. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$7.31 billion in chipmaking equipment in the [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cloud data center operators have formed ties with local companies that specialize in chips used in servers in a move to cope with growing semiconductor demand and uncertainty in global supply chains, the ICT ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Science and ICT said five data center [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the second spot in the foundry market in the first quarter of the year, but its share fell slightly due to the temporary shutdown of its chip plant in the United States, a report showed Monday. Samsung’s foundry business logged a market share of 17 [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday released a new mid-power LED package boasting improved light efficacy and color quality as the South Korean tech giant eyes to improve its presence in the lighting LED sector. The LM301B EVO offers the industry’s highest efficacy of 235 lumens per watt (lm/W) by [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. further expanded its leadership in the global NAND flash market in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, despite an overall decline in chip prices. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a 33.5 percent share of [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. was the world’s second-largest semiconductor vendor in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, after posting double-digit year-on-year sales growth. The South Korean tech juggernaut logged US$17.07 billion in chip sales in the January-March period, up 15 percent from a year earlier, according [...]