SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics Co., staging the biggest labor action in the technology giant’s 55-year history, declared an “indefinite general strike” Wednesday, stepping up pressure over their demand for a pay raise. After a three-day strike scheduled to come to an end Wednesday, the National Samsung Electronics Union [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Song Jai-hyuk, Chief Technology Officer of Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions Division and president of Samsung’s Semiconductor Research Center, expressed optimism about the company’s future in the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry. Speaking at the “Nano Korea 2024″ conference in Goyang on July 3, Song delivered a keynote address titled “Semiconductor Innovation [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions (DS) Division, responsible for the company’s semiconductor business, held its semi-annual global strategy meeting on June 26 to discuss ways to secure future competitiveness in the semiconductor industry. The meeting, chaired by DS Division head Kyung Kye-hun, was held at Samsung’s Hwaseong campus in Gyeonggi Province. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are ramping up their efforts to dominate the hotel TV market, showcasing upgraded televisions and specialized solutions at HITEC 2024, the world’s largest hospitality technology show, currently underway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Samsung revealed on June 25 that it has integrated Apple AirPlay functionality into [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on June 25 that it will add four more languages to its Galaxy AI service, which includes interpretation capabilities, by the end of this year. The on-device real-time interpretation and translation function of Galaxy AI currently supports 16 languages, including Korean, Chinese, English, French, and Japanese. The [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to unveil new Galaxy series smartphones with artificial intelligence (AI) features next month. The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024 will take place in Paris on July 10 (local time), just about two weeks before the opening of the Paris Summer Olympics, Samsung said Wednesday. Samsung [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has completed building infrastructure to produce faster and more efficient chips for artificial intelligence (AI) computing. The infrastructure for so-called compute express link (CXL) technology was built at Samsung Memory Research Center in Hwaseong, about 45 kilometers south of Seoul, the company said [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is embroiled in a legal dispute over allegations that it failed to disclose a game optimization service (GOS) that could limit the performance of devices in the Galaxy S22 series. On June 20, the Seoul Central District Court held the first hearing in a damages lawsuit filed by [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled the industry’s first hybrid refrigerator using semiconductor elements and artificial intelligence to improve energy efficiency and performance. The new Bespoke AI Hybrid Refrigerator adopts a hybrid cooling method that combines Peltier modules, along with a traditional compressor. Peltier modules, or thermoelectric modules, are [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on June 19 that it swept 11 categories, the highest number of awards, at InfoComm 2024, the largest display exhibition in North America, held from the June 12 to 14 in Las Vegas. Samsung Electronics said that the new products and solutions unveiled at the exhibition received [...]