SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s information technology (IT) industry depends overwhelmingly on hardware, failing to keep pace with the global trend of focusing on software, a report said Monday. According to the report by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, software companies accounted for 15 percent of the total market [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team from Kookmin University has developed an electronic device for semiconductors that can self-dissolve leaving no residue, a technology that would ultimately make Hollywood spy films come to reality. This transient electronics research was done using nitrocellulose paper, frequently used by magicians as their ‘magic’ flash papers. [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean company said Tuesday it has developed a new fume removal system for semiconductor manufacturing chambers. The Fixed Chamber Exhaust System (FSC), created by Excelsior Co., has been already installed into more than 300 wafer-processing chambers of local factories, according to the firm. It stressed that the [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. came closer last year to catching up with its archrival in the semiconductor industry, Intel Corp., data showed Monday. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 11.6 percent of the chip market in 2015, up 0.9 percentage points from a year earlier, standing as the No. 2 player, [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has commenced the mass production of the industry’s first 10-nanometer level dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, speeding up its dominance in the segment. The South Korean giant said it is producing 8-gigabit DDR4 chips through 10-nanometer-level technology, a breakthrough which came around two [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for more than 40 percent of the global market for NAND flash products in the fourth quarter of 2015, data showed Monday, marking the first time in more than three years to reach the mark. The South Korean tech giant took up 40.2 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. saw its global presence in the semiconductor sector advance on-year in 2015, its business report showed Friday, while the shares in the handset segment continued to lose ground. According to the latest data compiled by the South Korean giant, Samsung took up 45.3 percent of the global dynamic [...]
The core of the technology is turning aluminum into a form of nano-particle ink and coating fabrics with it. Using the technology, conductive fabrics that are used in wearable devices such as smart watches can be produced. (Image : Shutterstock) SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of South Korean scientists announced Tuesday that they have developed a wearable device, based on nanotechnology, for more convenient diabetes monitoring and therapy. The graphene-using “smart patch” has improved the accuracy of blood sugar level measurements as it checks not only glucose in sweat but also temperature [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s industry ministry said Wednesday it will make efforts to provide Samsung Electronics Co. with a stable power supply to its new factory under construction in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, in line with its efforts to eradicate hurdles in corporate investment. The remark came as the South Korean tech giant [...]