SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a highly efficient artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor that can be used in high-end servers and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Tuesday that a joint research team from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), SK Telecom Co. [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday delivered better-than-expected first-quarter earnings as robust demand for chips apparently offset a slump in smartphone and home appliance sales amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but analysts warned that the company may feel the pinch of the COVID-19 outbreak during the current quarter. The South [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc.’s revenue from its non-memory chip business spiked last year, its business report showed Tuesday, as South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker looks to expand its presence beyond the memory semiconductor industry. SK hynix’s non-memory chip business logged sales of 1.6 trillion won (US$1.3 billion) in 2019, more [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmaker MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a deal to sell its foundry business and a domestic plant for US$435 million. The assets will be sold to a special purpose company (SPC) set up by two local buyout firms — Alchemist Capital Partners Korea and [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Wednesday it has started shipping the industry’s first DRAM modules made using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. Samsung said it has shipped one million units of 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 (Double Date Rate 4) DRAM modules that were produced with the [...]
SUWON, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects this year’s chip demand to grow despite concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic. During an annual shareholder meeting, Kim Ki-nam, who leads Samsung’s device solutions division, said that “external uncertainties” will continue this year but global [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, said Tuesday it has begun mass-producing the industry’s fastest mobile storage. The 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded universal flash storage (eUFS) 3.1 is in mass production for use in flagship smartphones, according to Samsung. The latest product delivers three times [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a solid recovery a month ago, uncertainty is mounting over South Korea’s semiconductor exports in March due to the global spread of the new coronavirus. The deadly coronavirus outbreak is spreading rapidly in South Korea, Japan, Iran and Europe, dampening both business and consumer sentiment as well as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea said Sunday that it will invest 1 trillion won (US$863 million) in the next 10 years to nurture the next-generation semiconductor sector. According to the science ministry, cutting edge artificial intelligent (AI) and system-on-chip (SoC) technology, low energy consumption, high performance new devices and ultrafine fabrication processing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 1 memory chipmaker, said Wednesday it will mass-produce an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for Chinese web portal operator Baidu Inc. early next year. Samsung will manufacture Baidu KUNLUN, the Chinese internet firm’s first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, which is to be built on Baidu’s [...]