SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed a new DRAM memory technology based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard that can upgrade the performances of data centers. Samsung unveiled the industry’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM memory module that supports the advanced CXL interface. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has developed an advanced chip packaging technology for high-performance applications as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its leadership in semiconductor solutions. The world’s largest memory chip maker said its next-generation 2.5D packaging technology, Interposer-Cube4 (I-Cube4), is expected to be widely [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to become the world’s top semiconductor vendor in the second quarter of the year beating its U.S. rival Intel Corp., a report showed Thursday, on the back of strong memory demand. The South Korean tech giant was projected to log US$18.5 billion in semiconductor [...]
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 [...]