SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has dismantled the dedicated high-bandwidth memory (HBM) development team it created just last year and folded its engineers into the broader DRAM development division, industry sources said Thursday — a move interpreted as a sign of growing confidence in the company’s next-generation HBM technology. According to industry officials, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has taken another step toward remaking itself as a global center of artificial intelligence. On Thursday, the government convened the first meeting of a new working group made up of officials and senior executives from Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor Group, SK Telecom and Naver Cloud. The mission: figure [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has supplied 6,000 units of TVs and signage displays to the Star of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, operated by Royal Caribbean Group. The South Korean tech giant supplied Crystal UHD Hospitality TVs for guest cabins on the 365-meter-long cruise, offering [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it has received the top grade under the trade ministry’s export compliance program, recognizing the company’s transparent management of strategic items. The South Korean tech giant earned the highest “AAA” grade from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources for its management of products [...]
LOS ANGELES & SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will partner with both Samsung Electronics and Taiwan’s TSMC to produce its next-generation artificial intelligence chip, signaling a deepening collaboration between the U.S. automaker and the South Korean tech giant. Speaking during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Musk confirmed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics on Wednesday marked White Cane Safety Day by unveiling an artificial intelligence–based user manual designed to help visually impaired and low-vision users operate home appliances more easily. The new guide, titled “Manual for All,” was developed in collaboration with TUAT, a startup specializing in visual-assistance technology that was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics marked Korea’s Hangeul Day with a traveling art exhibition across major U.S. universities, highlighting the beauty and cultural value of the Korean alphabet through a collaboration with the New York Korean Cultural Center and renowned installation artist Kang Ik-joong. The company said Thursday that the “Hangeul Truck” project [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers of Samsung Electronics Co. sent a letter to Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Tuesday, demanding the company improve the transparency of its bonus system. In a document sent to the de facto head of Samsung Group, workers demanded the adoption of a more transparent bonus evaluation system and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has launched its remote customer care service powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology in more than 120 countries. The Home Appliances Remote Management (HRM) service allows Samsung’s customer centers to remotely access diagnostic data of SmartThings-connected products to provide solutions to resolve issues, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics is doubling down on its health-focused wearables, unveiling increasingly sophisticated sensor technologies for its Galaxy Watch line—some of which have even been used to monitor astronauts in space. According to the company, its latest model, the Galaxy Watch8, represents the culmination of more than a decade of [...]