SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to lose its share in the smartphone chipset market this year, a report showed Tuesday, as Taiwanese and U.S. rivals are to expand their presence with a rise in the 5G device sector. Samsung was estimated to take an 8 percent share in the [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Memory chip prices are rising sharply amid a global semiconductor shortage, industry data showed Friday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. The contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAM, which is widely used in personal computers, reached US$3.80 for this month, up 26.67 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that a monthlong shutdown at its U.S. semiconductor plant cost it more than 300 billion won (US$270 million) in losses, although the facility is now fully normalized. “There was a wafer production disruption due to the stopping and recovering of the fab,” Han Seung-hoon, [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit jumped 52.9 percent from a year earlier thanks to strong demand for memory chips for mobile and computer products. Its net profit stood at 992.6 billion won (US$893.9 million) in the first quarter of the year, [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea, home to major memory chip suppliers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., ranked second in global chip sales last year, a report showed Wednesday, although it had extremely weak presence in the fabless segment. Total integrated circuit (IC) sales from South Korea-based firms represented 21 [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers’ spending on equipment soared 61 percent last year from a year earlier, the largest growth among major chip producing countries, industry data showed Wednesday. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., spent US$16.08 billion in 2020, up from [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Huawei Technologies Co. blamed the United States on Tuesday for a global chip shortage as it called for cooperation with South Korea, Japan and Europe to form a new semiconductor supply chain. The move came hours after U.S. President Joe Biden urged more spending in the chipmaking sector to [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. expanded its dominance in the global smartphone memory market in 2020, a report showed Tuesday, as it represented nearly half of the industry. Samsung, the world’s largest supplier of DRAM and NAND chips, accounted for 49 percent of the global smartphone memory market last year, up [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, is likely to accelerate its investment in the United States as U.S. President Joe Biden urged more spending in the chipmaking sector to resolve the chip shortage and build up a stable supply chain, analysts here said Tuesday. Samsung was [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. maintained the status as the world’s second-largest semiconductor vendor by revenue last year, industry data showed Tuesday, amid rising demand of memory products on the back of the pandemic-induced stay-at-home economy. Samsung’s chip business logged US$57.7 billion in revenue last year, up 10.2 percent from a [...]