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 [...]
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 [...]