SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday its second semiconductor fabrication plant in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, has started mass production of its latest mobile DRAM chip. Pyeongtaek Line 2 commenced mass production of the industry’s first 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate (LPDDR) mobile DRAM using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two tech giants — Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. — on Friday said they will release new home appliance products in Europe to boost sales in the region amid the pandemic. Samsung said it will begin launching a new laundry appliance with upgraded artificial intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, will further unveil features of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphone next week as it has confirmed the date and time of the device’s proper unveiling event. The “Galaxy Z Fold 2: Unpacked Part 2″ online event will start at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s share of the global NAND flash market in the second quarter of the year dropped slightly compared with three months earlier, a report showed Thursday, although it maintained dominance in the sector. The South Korean tech giant, also the leader in the DRAM sector, had a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will adopt a remote working system for some of its employees in South Korea following a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the country. Employees who apply for Samsung’s remote working program will be able to work from home starting next month. The company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has joined hands with a local fashion accessory brand to conduct various marketing activities for the Galaxy Note 20 phablet as the tech company tries to boost sales of the flagship mobile device. Samsung will collaborate with Joseph&Stacey, a Seoul-based handbag and wallet [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. remained the top smartphone vendor in the second quarter of the year despite suffering a sharp decline in sales, a report showed Wednesday. Samsung sold 54.75 million smartphones in the April-June period to take a 18.6 percent market share, according to market researcher Gartner Inc. Its [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartwatch and wireless earbuds have been robust, industry insiders said Tuesday, despite the resurgence of virus cases here. Samsung has sold 60,000 units of the Galaxy Watch 3 smartwatch since its launch on Aug. 6. The figure is triple of the sales of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of small shareholders in global tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. nearly tripled this year amid massive stock investment by local retail investors, data showed Tuesday. Some 1.45 million investors held a stake of less than 1 percent in the top-cap company as of the end of June, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s market share in the global foundry industry is expected to decrease in the current quarter from the previous three months, a report showed Tuesday. Samsung’s share of the foundry business was estimated at 17.4 percent in the April-June period, down 1.4 percentage points from three months [...]