SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled its new wearable processor built on 5-nanometer (nm) process as the South Korean tech giant tries to beef up its presence in the wearable device market. The Exynos W920 is the industry’s first wearable processor made with advanced 5nm extreme ultraviolet lithography technology, [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said efficiency is now the key factor when it comes to developing memory chips as the South Korean tech giant rebutted concerns of the company trailing behind rivals in future memory technologies. With U.S. chipmaker Micron Technologies Inc. launching the industry’s first 176-layer NAND, [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, on Tuesday delivered robust second-quarter earnings on the back of strong memory demand in the market. SK hynix reported that its second-quarter net income stood at 1.98 trillion won (US$1.7 billion), up 56.5 percent from a year earlier. Operating profit for the [...]
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) [...]