SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to outpace U.S.-based Intel Corp. in terms of sales this year and emerge as the world’s No. 1 chip maker, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker IC Insights, Samsung will likely post sales of US$65.6 billion in the chip segment to account for 15 percent of the global market. Intel, on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to expand its production capacity for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips next year in a bid to keep its dominance in the market, an industry tracker said Thursday. “There are reports that Samsung is considering expanding its production capacity to increase competition and raise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Semiconductors are expected to account for a record high of more than 16 percent of South Korea’s annual exports this year, data showed Friday. Industry data showed South Korea’s export of chips, led by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., reaching US$70.4 billion in the January-September period, up [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The global price for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips rose 5.2 percent on-month in July, data showed Thursday, casting brighter outlook over second-half earnings for South Korean chipmakers. According to the data compiled by industry tracker DRAMeXchange, the average contract price for the mainstay DDR4 4Gb 512Mx8 2133MHz came [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hyinx Inc. said Wednesday it plans to allocate some 9.6 trillion won (US$8.5 billion) this year to expand its production facilities for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and NAND chips. Through a regulatory filing, the South Korean chipmaker said it expanded the amount of investment originally estimated at 7 [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday its second-quarter net profit shot up nearly ninefold, apparently helped by a strong average sales price of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and NAND chips. The record-breaking net profit came to 2.46 trillion won (US$2.2 billion), soaring from 286 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it expanded production of new high-performance dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips that can be utilized for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The South Korean tech giant said it kicked off full-fledged mass production of the industry’s first high-performance 8GB High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM) DRAM [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean chipmakers are set to benefit from rising demand for semiconductors, a global market research firm said Wednesday. The average price of the mainstay dynamic random-access memory chip (DRAM) product ‘DDR4 4Gb 512Mx8 2133MHz’ jumped more than 12 percent to US$3.09 as of April 28 from $2.75 on March 31, according to DRAMeXchange. The memory and storage [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s global market share in DRAMs and TVs rose in 2016, while it lost ground in mobile phones and displays, the company’s business report showed Sunday. The report based on data collected by various market researchers said the tech giant controlled 21.6 percent of the TV market last [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. has released a more advanced memory chip for smartphones that will offer higher data storage for mobile devices, company officials said Monday. The 8-gigabyte LPDDR4X chip boasts the “world’s highest density” and features faster data processing speed while consuming less electricity, SK hynix said in a [...]