SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has commenced the industry’s first mass-production of all-in-one bioprocessors that can be applied to various health care smart devices to collect users’ biological information. The Samsung Bio-Processor, also dubbed “S3FBP5A,” will be used to measure different health care information, such as body fat, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Corp., the holding firm of South Korea’s No. 3 conglomerate, said Tuesday that it has decided to take over a local manufacturer of special gases used in chipmaking, LCD and solar panels, as part of an effort to bolster its semiconductor material business. SK will buy a 49.1 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies’ share of the global mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip market hit an all-time high in the third quarter of the year, far outpacing their rivals, data showed Sunday. Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for 56.9 percent of global mobile DRAM sales in the July-September period, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers are expected to expand their production of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips despite falling market prices in a bid to cope with the rise of Chinese rivals, industry sources said Wednesday. The global contract price for a DDR3 4GB module, the standard in setting the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Funding of 32.7 billion won will be offered by the government to develop core technology in the bio, metallic material and chemical processing fields. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) announced that it will support new projects together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Forest Service’s Forest Research Institute has announced that through a joint project with the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, researchers have developed technology to make a lithium ion battery that can be folded into a paper crane and used three times longer than current batteries. Professor [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tech titan Samsung Electronics Co. posted a record share of the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market in the second quarter, data showed Tuesday, reflecting the rising presence of chips in its business portfolio. Samsung’s share of the global DRAM market came to 45.2 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., two major South Korean memory chip makers, have clinched no overseas takeover deals for the semiconductor business this year, industry data showed Tuesday, in contract to their global peers who’ve been strongly engaged in the merger and acquisition (M&A) activities. Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chip giant SK hynix said Tuesday it will spend 46 trillion won (US$38.2 billion) to build three new semiconductor production lines over the next 10 years in an effort to bolster its market position and join government efforts to revitalize the economy. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won unveiled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has begun to mass-produce 256-gigabit (Gb) vertical NAND flash memory chips, making the company the first in the world to have succeeded in manufacturing the storage component in its largest capacity available. The vertical NAND flash, also known as V-NAND, [...]