SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major electronics firms on Wednesday released their new soundbar products as they aim to expand their presences in the home audio market. Samsung Electronics Co. announced the global launch of its two new premium soundbars, the HW-Q950T and the HW-Q900T, which completes its full 2020 Q-series [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday said it will launch an ultraviolet (UV) light sterilizer for smartphones to meet a growing need for mobile device sanitization amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Samsung said its new UV sterilizer with wireless charging will be sold in South Korea with a price tag [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday confirmed its new smartphones will be unveiled next month through an online event. Samsung said the Galaxy Unpacked 2020 will take place on Aug. 5, with livestreaming of the event starting at 10 a.m. (Eastern Time). The South Korean tech titan usually holds the [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday expected a stronger than expected second-quarter performance as solid demand for server chips appeared to offset a slump in smartphone sales amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, while one-time gains in the display business also helped push up its bottom line. In its earnings guidance, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Monday vowed support for startups in another on-site visit amid global uncertainties. Lee, the de facto leader of South Korea’s top conglomerate, Samsung Group, visited the tech giant’s startup incubation center in Suwon, south of Seoul, and encouraged workers at its in-house [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone vendor, will provide handsome performance-based bonuses to its employees next week, industry sources said Friday. Samsung plans to give its workers what it calls target achievement incentives (TAI) based on their performance, which could be maximum 100 percent of [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday released a new luxury refrigerator highlighting customization features that offers up to 150 combinations in designs and options. Samsung unveiled its New Chef Collection refrigerator under the company’s Project Prism, which aims to reflect consumers’ lifestyles and allows them to personalize the materials, colors, [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. dominated the global market for smartphone memory chips in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Thursday, despite the industry’s overall decline in revenue. In terms of revenue, Samsung maintained its top position in the smartphone memory market with a 50 percent share in [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to hire a record number of postgraduate researchers this year to secure future technologies in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors. The South Korean tech giant said it will hire 1,000 postgraduate engineers by the end of this year. Samsung already [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday introduced its new solid state drive (SSD) product with an industry-leading capacity of up to 8 terabytes (TB). The world’s largest memory chip producer said its second generation quad-level cell flash drive, the 870 QVO SATA SSD, will go on sale in 40 countries, [...]