SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. were the biggest NAND flash sellers in the world in the second quarter, an industry report showed Thursday. According to Taiwan-based market analyst firm TrendForce, Samsung’s NAND flash sales during the April-June period reached US$5.98 billion, with its global [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday it has developed the NAND flash with the industry’s highest vertical layers that enable improved productivity and fast data transfer. The world’s second largest memory chip maker said its 238-layer 4D NAND flash is the “most layered and smallest” in size, during the Flash [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. took up more than half of the global NAND flash memory chip market in the first quarter, a report showed Thursday, up by more than 8 percent from the previous quarter. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, expanded its market share [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — NAND flash prices are expected to decline in the second half due mainly to sluggish demand and oversupply, a recent report showed Wednesday, dimming the performance outlooks for major chipmakers. Industry tracker TrendForce expected the prices of NAND flash wafers to start to decline this month, and the rate [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. aims to expand the use of its seventh generation V-NAND chip solutions, a senior executive said Tuesday, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to bolster its technology prowess in the memory sector. In the second half of the year, the world’s leading memory chip maker [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. further upped its leadership in the global NAND flash market in the fourth quarter of 2020, a report showed Wednesday, despite revenue decline. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a 32.9 percent share of the global NAND flash market [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its top spot in the global NAND flash market in the third quarter of the year on the back of increased revenue, a report showed Thursday. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a 33.1 percent share of the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s second-largest chipmaker, aims to triple its NAND flash sales in the next five years with the acquisition of Intel Corp.’s non-volatile memory business unit, its CEO said Wednesday. In a rare conference call appearance, SK hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee explained the company’s 10.3 trillion-won [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share of the global NAND flash market in the second quarter of the year dropped slightly compared with three months earlier, a report showed Thursday, although it maintained dominance in the sector. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Monday it will add a NAND flash production line in South Korea to further expand its presence in the sector. The company said it plans to start mass-production of the new line at its second chip fab, named P2, [...]