SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The party is over for South Korean memory chip makers after a two-year boom, and deep-pocketed industry leaders are now looking to the future to find the new growth drivers in the non-memory chip business. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chip makers, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. released a video of durability tests on Thursday ahead of the release of its first foldable smartphone, dubbed the Galaxy Fold. To use a foldable smartphone over a long period of time, there should be no distortion in the display, as there are no scratches or [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s tech titans launch their latest and greatest TVs, they are, once again, in fierce competition to promote their own cutting-edge screen technologies and expand their market presence. Consumers who want the best picture quality TVs available will look to OLED TVs by LG Electronics Inc. and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will release its first 5G smartphone in the first week of April in South Korea, which will be the world’s first mobile device with the next-generation network capability. The South Korean tech giant said Galaxy S10′s 5G model will go on sale on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has announced plans to collaborate with famous foreign artists to create unique content for the QLED TV’s magic screen features. Magic Screen, first featured on the 2018 model of Samsung’s QLED TV, displays news, weather, photos, music, and other useful content on the television screen when [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will propel technology innovations to tackle the unfavorable business environment and foster new growth drivers, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G. The South Korean tech giant announced its business plan during a shareholder meeting, the first since a 50:1 stock split in [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean brokerage houses have sharply downgraded their first-quarter earnings forecasts for Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., citing tumbling memory chip prices, a corporate tracker said Tuesday. The market consensus of Samsung’s operating profit for the January-March period stands at 8.33 trillion won (US$7.36 billion), down about 47 percent [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will push to put cameras and sensors beneath the screens of smartphones to create “perfect full-screen” devices. The South Korean tech giant said its Infinity-O Display, used in Galaxy S10, is a “milestone” for its display technology, although going forward it will showcase [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The long-rumored foldable phones will be available in the coming months, but they are expected to take only a tiny share of the global smartphone market this year, an industry report said Monday. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and China’s Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s two largest device makers, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. may relinquish its top semiconductor supplier’s rank to U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp. this year due to the cooling memory chip market, an industry report showed Friday. With 83 percent of Samsung’s semiconductor sales relying on memory devices, such as DRAM and NAND [...]