SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. continued to sit on the throne of the world’s NAND flash market in the fourth quarter of 2015, data showed Sunday, expanding the gap with other smaller rivals around the globe. The South Korean tech giant accounted for 33.6 percent of the market in the October-December period, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it started the mass production of a 256-gigabyte (GB) memory chip for high-end smartphones, less than a year after it kicked off the 128-GB model. The South Korean tech giant said the new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) boasts speed that is nine times faster than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday introduced a new system chip that utilizes the ground-breaking 14-nanometer technology for better efficiency and could be used in a wider scope of electronic devices including budget smartphones. Samsung Electronics said it plans to begin the mass production of the Exynos 7 Octa 7870, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to reduce its facility investment in the chip business on-year in 2016, data showed Wednesday, while its rivals are estimated to expand their expenditures to catch up to the top player. According to the data compiled by industry tracker TrendForce, Samsung Electronics is estimated [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has started the mass production of new dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, targeting the high performance computing segment that covers super computers and big-data cloud services. The new product, dubbed the second generation of 4-gigabyte (GB) high bandwidth memory DRAM, or HBM2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it will spend 6 trillion won (US$4.9 billion) this year, similar to last year’s capital spending, to overcome rising challenges from rivals. The chipmaker is faced with global challenges, including falling demand for memory chips and the rise of [...]
DAEJEON, Jan.12 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean and American joint research team has developed a nano-capsule that makes diagnosing cancer within 24 hours possible by injecting the substance into the human body. The organic fluorescent dye contained in the capsule glows in different colors in the presence of different types of cancer cells. Professor Song [...]
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, [...]