SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm was included among Samsung Electronics Co.’s top five clients in the first quarter, a document showed Tuesday, largely due to chip contract manufacturing. In a quarterly corporate filing, the South Korean tech giant named Apple, Best Buy, Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm and Supreme Electronics as its five [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday it will launch a limited edition of the Galaxy Z Fold3 handset in collaboration with homegrown design brand Muziktiger. The Muziktiger edition, to go on sale from Monday, is priced at 1,280,400 won (US$997). The new edition comes with the [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering raising chipmaking prices by up to 20 percent, a news report said Friday. Bloomberg reported the South Korean chipmaker is in talks with foundry clients to hike the contract chipmaking prices. Samsung spokespersons, contacted by Yonhap, said they could not officially comment on the [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday held its first 6G forum with experts from academia and industry to discuss the future of communications technologies, in a bid to lead 6G research and development and standardization. At the forum, titled “The Next Hyper-Connected Experience for All,” global industry experts had presentations [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — NAND flash prices are expected to decline in the second half due mainly to sluggish demand and oversupply, a recent report showed Wednesday, dimming the performance outlooks for major chipmakers. Industry tracker TrendForce expected the prices of NAND flash wafers to start to decline this month, and the rate [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has introduced a new human resources policy allowing highly-skilled senior employees to continue working after retirement to capitalize on their experience and expertise. The world’s largest memory chip and mobile phone maker made an internal announcement Tuesday that it will receive applications for the so-called senior [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is accelerating its research and development of metaverse-related technologies in a bid to nurture its new growth engines, joining the growing list of global tech firms that are betting big on the new field. Samsung Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee has recently discussed the topic with a [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., a South Korean tech giant, said Tuesday that it has reached a deal to supply 5G network and other telecommunications equipment to DISH Network Corp., a U.S. mobile phone operator. Samsung did not reveal the value of the deal with the U.S.’s fourth-largest wireless carrier, but [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. retook the top spot in the global smartphone market from Apple Inc. in the first quarter of 2022, data showed Friday. The South Korean tech giant shipped 74 million units of smartphones over the January-March period, up 7 percent from the previous quarter and down 3 [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s management and its workers agreed to an average 9 percent pay raise in wages for the year, sources said Friday, ending 11 rounds of negotiations since February. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker reached an agreement with representatives of its employees over wages and [...]