SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Global TV shipments are forecast to slightly rebound this year amid falling LCD panel prices, with high-end TVs continuing to enjoy robust growth, industry reports said Tuesday. The industry tracker Trendforce expected global TV shipments to reach around 217 million units this year, up 3.4 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has rolled out three-dimensional outdoor advertisements in five major cities around the world to promote of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022, which will be held on Wednesday. Samsung’s ‘Tiger in the City’ ad has been put up in New York City’s Times Square, the Piccadilly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will repurpose discarded ocean-bound fishing nets in its Galaxy devices as part of its efforts to expand the use of eco-conscious materials and make its business more environmentally friendly. The world’s largest smartphone maker said the use of a new material “marks another [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top two chipmakers — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — have been having difficulty procuring equipment essential to the operation of their chip fabrication facilities. Both companies mentioned the prolonged lead time, the time it takes for a product or service to go through all [...]
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 [...]