SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday reported strong fourth-quarter earnings on robust chip business and brisk sales of consumer electronics. Net profit rose 64.04 percent from a year earlier to 10.8 trillion won (US$9 billion) in the October-December period, the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone vendor said in a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its chipmaking facility in the Chinese city of Xi’an has returned to normal as the city has lifted a lockdown. The world’s largest memory chip maker had temporarily adjusted operations at its NAND flash chips manufacturing base late last month following the lockdown in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will hold its Unpacked 2022 event next month to showcase the latest Galaxy smartphone with improved chips and boosted camera performance and capabilities. The tech company will show off the Galaxy S22 smartphone at the Feb. 10 event, saying it will “set an [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled an advanced mobile application processor in the latest move to bolster its minimal presence in the global mobile application processor market. Samsung said the new processor, the Exynos 2200, is built on the most advanced 4-nanometer extreme ultraviolet lithography process and is empowered [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new path has opened for Samsung Electronics Co. to produce an eye-catching laptop with a foldable display and keyboard. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a U.N.’s intellectual property agency, finally approved a patent named ‘multi-foldable electronic appliance’ registered in July last year by Samsung Electronics, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s all-new portable projector, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, has gotten off to a good start, as preorders were sold out at home and abroad, the company said Friday. The new product, The Freestyle, is a light, portable screen and entertainment device, especially [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s new portable projector The Freestyle is enjoying significant popularity at an online shopping mall for employees only. The new portable projector for which reservation sales began at Samsung FamilyNet employee mall from Tuesday, is available at a price of 690,000 won (US$580), almost half-price compared to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The prolonged lockdown in the Chinese city of Xi’an will have minimal impact on the performance of Samsung Electronics Co., which has a chip fabrication complex there, analysts said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, temporarily adjusted operations at its NAND flash chips manufacturing base in the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to expand the range of trade-in benefits (compensation for used products) from smartphones towards the entire spectrum of Galaxy products, including smartwatches and notebook PCs. The tech giant expanded the scope of the trade-in program that it has implemented for the Galaxy Book Pro laptop, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it is likely to post record quarterly sales in the fourth quarter of last year, boosted by its solid semiconductor business. The company expected the sales to hit 76 trillion won (US$63.1 billion) in the September-December period, up 23.5 percent from a year earlier, [...]