SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean brokerage houses have sharply downgraded their first-quarter earnings forecasts for Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., citing tumbling memory chip prices, a corporate tracker said Tuesday. The market consensus of Samsung’s operating profit for the January-March period stands at 8.33 trillion won (US$7.36 billion), down about 47 percent [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will push to put cameras and sensors beneath the screens of smartphones to create “perfect full-screen” devices. The South Korean tech giant said its Infinity-O Display, used in Galaxy S10, is a “milestone” for its display technology, although going forward it will showcase [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The long-rumored foldable phones will be available in the coming months, but they are expected to take only a tiny share of the global smartphone market this year, an industry report said Monday. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and China’s Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s two largest device makers, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. may relinquish its top semiconductor supplier’s rank to U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. this year due to the cooling memory chip market, an industry report showed Friday. With 83 percent of Samsung’s semiconductor sales relying on memory devices, such as DRAM and NAND [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. announced plans to expand paternal leave and childcare leave to meet the government’s policy to promote childbirth. Samsung Electronics recently decided to offer as much as 20 days of paid leave if an employee’s wife gives birth to twins, effective this month. The current welfare policy [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S10s that South Korean users have signed up for at local mobile carriers came to 140,000 units on the first day of registration, industry data showed Tuesday. The number of Galaxy S10′s first-day registration falls below that of the Galaxy S9′s 180,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. retained their combined leading spot in the global semiconductor market in 2018, an industry tracker said Monday. Samsung’s sales of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips came to US$43.75 billion last year, taking up 43.9 percent of the world [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Display took a jab at industry rival Samsung Electronics on Thursday by arguing in favor of the superiority of its OLED panel over LCD. Kang In-byeong, the company’s chief technology officer, emphasized the fundamental difference between organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and liquid crystal display (LCD) panels during a [...]
BARCELONA, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday it will showcase a diverse array of its 5G solutions ranging from chipsets and gear to smartphones and live-streaming capabilities when business representatives gather in Barcelona for the world’s largest mobile show. The South Korean tech giant said it is prepared to introduce its [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is examining a new naming arrangement for its next generation flagship phones following the launch of its Galaxy S10 series devices last week, a corporate source said Sunday. Insiders on the South Korean tech giant’s global brand marketing team present at the unpacking event in San [...]