SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined share of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, South Korea’s chip giants, in the global DRAM market stood at over 70 percent for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2014, data showed Thursday. Their portion together came to 70.4 percent as of the end of December, up from [...]
SEOUL/SEJONG, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tax earnings from the country’s 30 largest conglomerates are expected to shrink 15 percent this year, economic sources said Monday, as the business community claims rates are already high for a trade-dependent nation. Official data by Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and corporate tracker Chaebul.com said the business groups [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker SK hynix saw its share of the NAND flash market rise in the fourth quarter of 2014 from three months earlier, narrowing its gap with industry leader Samsung Electronics, data showed Sunday. SK hynix saw its market share reach 11.4 percent in the October-December period, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top tech giant Samsung Electronics began sales of its first Tizen-powered TV on Thursday in its home market, the first step in the company’s strategy to connect all its consumer electronics to the operating system. The newly launched models are curved SUHD TVs, the latest version of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics said on February 4 it has started mass production of a one-package chip, which stacks a number of different smartphone parts together, enabling thinner handsets with bigger batteries. The South Korea-based company, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, used the ePoP (Embedded Package on Package) in its wearable [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A stroke warning cap, which was one of the C-Lab projects selected by Samsung Electronics at the beginning of last year, is moving closer to commercialization. The C-Lab is a system that supports the commercialization of new products by adopting ideas proposed by members of management and staff. According [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Group’s B2B and B2C affiliate companies have scored favorable responses among consumers in Saudi Arabia. According to recent data, the Seoul-based electronics powerhouse has grabbed the top spot on the BrandIndex Buzz Rankings, an annual brand-perception monitoring report created by market research firm YouGov. Samsung Electronics recorded a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s largest firm by market value, has been considering splitting its stock to lower the high price tag of its shares but will look more into the long-term effect before making any decision, a senior executive said Tuesday. “(Samsung Electronics) has been looking into whether [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Lee Jae-yong, vice president of Samsung Electronics, and his two sisters held a ceremonial New Year dinner meeting with new executives Monday, the first without their father present as he remains bedridden following last year’s heart attack. Lee Jay-yong, the only son of the patriarch of South Korea’s top [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s new range of SUHD TVs all earned awards at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samsung’s SUHD TVs are next generation monitors that use advanced 4K display technology. Samsung’s UN105S9B 105″ bendable SUHD TV, the largest in the world, earned a CES award for Best Innovation, giving the company [...]