SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering holding its technology conference this year despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, industry insiders said Friday. The South Korean tech giant is reviewing a plan to hold the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) in October or November as vaccinations pick up pace around the globe. Samsung, [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The global memory chip market is forecast to increase 32 percent this year, a report showed Thursday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. Sales growth for the DRAM market is expected to reach 41 percent in 2021, the second largest among 33 integrated circuit (IC) [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that it had added 23 masterpieces of 20th century art to The Frame, a picture frame-shaped television, in collaboration with the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. The new collection includes famous pieces by representative artists from the 20th century such as Piet Mondriaan and Wassily [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday released a new multi-chip package (MCP) memory product for use in 5G smartphones as the South Korean tech giant tries to better target the fast-growing handset market. The world’s largest memory chip producer said it has begun mass-producing low-power double data rate 5 (LPDDR5) [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is likely to unveil its new foldable smartphone in August, industry insiders said Tuesday, amid its push to popularize the foldable category. The South Korean tech giant is expected to hold its Galaxy Unpacked online event in early August to introduce the Galaxy Z Fold3 and [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will supply its latest 5G network solutions to Vodafone, a London-based telecommunications giant, a move that will expand its presence in Europe. Under the deal, the South Korean tech giant will provide its commercial virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solutions and open radio [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced a new mobile image sensor, the industry’s smallest pixel size, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its presence in the non-memory sector. The 50-million megapixel ISOCELL JN1 is the industry’s first 0.64-micrometer pixel image sensor that can deliver ultra-high [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed an 8-nanometer (nm) process technology for radio frequency (RF) chips as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its foundry service for 5G mobile semiconductors. Samsung said its 8nm foundry will deliver 5G single-chip RF solutions supporting sub-6-gigahertz to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of memory chips, notably DRAM and NAND flash, are likely to continue to rise in the third quarter of the year, a report showed Wednesday, boding well for South Korean chipmakers that dominate the sector. DRAM prices are expected to increase further by 3-8 percent quarter-on-quarter in the [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. aims to expand the use of its seventh generation V-NAND chip solutions, a senior executive said Tuesday, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to bolster its technology prowess in the memory sector. In the second half of the year, the world’s leading memory chip maker [...]