SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter operating profit sank 34.4 percent from a year earlier due largely to sluggish semiconductor business but its memory chip segment turned to the black on recovering demand. The world’s largest mobile phone and memory chip maker’s operating profit amounted to 2.82 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. retained its top spot in the global memory chip market in the first quarter despite lackluster earnings amid the chip glut, a report showed Sunday. SK hynix Inc., on the other hand, was pushed back to third place from No. 2 compared with a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for DRAM is expected to grow at a historically low level next year, a report said Thursday, dimming outlook for South Korean chipmakers, heavily dependent on memory chip sales for their bottom line. Industry research firm TrendForce forecast DRAM market demand bit growth will amount to only 8.3 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global DRAM shipments dropped nearly 6 percent in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, a report showed Friday, amid sluggish demand from manufacturers that had hoarded up the key consumer electronics component over continued chip shortages. DRAM shipments during the October-December period were valued at US$25 billion, down [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A semiconductor industry tracker on Wednesday cut in half its growth projection of the global memory chip market next year. World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), a nonprofit organization of chipmakers, forecast the memory market to expand 8.5 percent year-on-year to US$171.6 billion next year, down from a growth rate [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Tuesday it began mass production of the industry’s smallest 14-nanometer DRAM using extreme ultraviolet lithography technology as part of efforts to consolidate its leadership in the memory industry. The company already shipped 1 million units of 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — DRAM prices in the spot market have recently been declining amid expectations for weaker demand stemming from widening COVID-19 vaccinations around the globe, industry sources said Wednesday. According to market tracker DRAMeXchange, the average contract price of 8-gigabit DDR4 DRAMs for PCs came to US$3.889 on Monday, the lowest [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday said it aims to expand its memory products powered by its artificial intelligence (AI) engine as the South Korean tech giant is pushing to increase its technology leadership in the semiconductor market. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip supplier, showcased its latest processing-in-memory (PIM) [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of memory chips, notably NAND flash and DRAM, are likely to increase significantly in the second quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. Contract prices of NAND flash are expected to increase by an average of 3-8 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) processor-embedded high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip that boasts low energy consumption and enhanced performance. Using processing-in-memory (PIM) technology, the South Korean tech giant said it integrated AI engines onto its HBM2 Aquabolt, becoming the first in the [...]