SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has developed a semiconductor device using new material that changes itself from a semiconductor to conductor as its temperature changes. The new device lessens power loss and operates much faster. The new semiconductor device created by the research team maintains the characteristics of semiconductors, but [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix said Wednesday it has agreed to end the ongoing legal battle with U.S.-based SanDisk over an alleged technology leak, and instead plans to extend their patent cooperation. Under the agreement, the two will end the legal battle that started in March last year in [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top tech giant, Samsung Electronics, said Wednesday it has started the mass production of what it claims are the industry’s smallest image sensors that boast high-end performance. The company said the new 16-megapixel image sensors for smartphones are based on 1-micrometer-pixel technology, which compares to the previous sensors [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean medical researchers have developed a new way to treat cancers by leveraging “intravital glowing” like corals or fireflies. Sun Medical Center in Daejeon announced on July 22 that a research team led by Yun Seok-hyun, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and its hemato-oncology doctor Kim Yi-rang succeeded [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced that they would be providing their 103 semiconductor partners with incentives worth a total of 14.2 billion won for the first half of the year. This is the largest incentive to be offered in the first half of the year, both in the number of target companies and [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – After news of a Chinese state-owned company’s bid to take over US chipmaker Micron Technologies surfaced, Korean semiconductor makers like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics saw painful losses to their share prices. On July 14, Samsung Electronics declined 3.24 percent to 1,225,000 won, marking the biggest daily loss since May 27, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) -- Samsung Electronics Co. announced Monday it has added a high capacity version to its solid state drive (SDD) line-up to meet various demands in the fast-growing market. The new SSD version with 2 terabyte capacity will lead its 850 PRO & EVO lineup, the Seoul-based tech company said. The new SSD [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix and its trade union introduced a new model for coexistence and cooperation with subcontractors by raising funds through the donation of part of their increased wages. On June 7, the world’s second largest DRAM chip supplier announced that it decided to implement the wage-sharing program to improve working conditions [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix grabbed a record 75 percent share of the global mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market in the first quarter on Samsung’s stellar performance, data showed Tuesday. Samsung, the world’s top maker of mobile DRAMs, took up 52.1 percent of the global market [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, South Korea’s top chipmaker, narrowed its gap with No. 1 global player Intel in chip sales in the first quarter of the year, data showed Friday. Samsung’s chip sales increased 6 percent on-year in the January-March period to US$9.33 billion, the data compiled by industry tracker IC Insights [...]