SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant SamsungElectronics Co. said Friday that its third-quarter operating profit is expected to have nearly tripled on-year, apparently on the sound returns from its computer chip business. Operating profit was estimated at 14.5 trillion won (US$12.8 billion), compared with 5.2 trillion won tallied a year earlier, the company [...]
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, 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, South Korea, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it has begun mass producing a new, high-performance SAS-interface solid state drive (SSD) using 10-nanometer (nm) class* MLC NAND flash memory. “With our new SAS SSD, our competitiveness in the enterprise storage SSD market has been strengthened,” said Jeeho Baek, [...]
SEOUL, June 07 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Hynix has taken over the firmware unit of Softeq Development FLLC. It is the fifth time over the recent two years that SK Hynix has taken over companies or divisions related to NAND flash memory chips. On June 5, SK Hynix announced that the company has acquired the [...]