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 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 [...]
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, 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. 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 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, 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, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presence in the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) hit a record high last year, data showed Thursday, as Samsung Electronics continued to secure its seat on the throne on the back of its latest 20-nanometer products. Asia’s fourth-largest economy took up 67.7 percent of the [...]