SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday its second semiconductor fabrication plant in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, has started mass production of its latest mobile DRAM chip. Pyeongtaek Line 2 commenced mass production of the industry’s first 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate (LPDDR) mobile DRAM using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share of the global NAND flash market in the second quarter of the year dropped slightly compared with three months earlier, a report showed Thursday, although it maintained dominance in the sector. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s market share in the global foundry industry is expected to decrease in the current quarter from the previous three months, a report showed Tuesday. Samsung’s share of the foundry business was estimated at 17.4 percent in the April-June period, down 1.4 percentage points from three months [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major chipmakers are expected to cut their DRAM capital spending this year, a report showed Thursday, as they become cautious over market conditions amid the pandemic. Samsung Electronics Co.’s DRAM capital expenditure budget is projected to decline 21 percent to US$4.9 billion this year, according to market [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — International Business Machines Corp. said Monday that it has unveiled a new processor chip for enterprise hybrid cloud computing and that the chip will be manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. In a statement, the U.S. technology giant said the POWER10 chip is designed by IBM and will be made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that its advanced chip packaging technology is now ready for use after the company succeeded in producing test chips with the solution that can improve speed and power efficiency of logic semiconductors. Its silicon-proven 3D integrated circuit (IC) packaging technology, dubbed “eXtended-Cube” or simply [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. will start the construction of its third chip fabrication facility in South Korea next month at the earliest, industry insiders said Monday, as the company tries to ramp up its production capacity to cope with rising demand for semiconductors. Land preparation work for the facility in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is projected to see further growth in its foundry business in the second half of the year, analysts here said Saturday, with growing expectations for receiving orders from Intel Corp. In its second-quarter earnings announcement, the world’s largest memory chipmaker said its foundry business achieved record [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, announced on Thursday that it expects solid chip demand in the second half of the year following its strong second-quarter performance on the back of robust demand for server chips amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Its net profit more than doubled to [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s spending on chipmaking equipment is likely to be the third largest of any country this year, industry data showed Wednesday, amid solid global chip demand sparked by the pandemic-driven stay-at-home economy. South Korea, home to major memory chip producers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., is [...]