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Samsung supplies LPDDR4X auto chip to Qualcomm, set for LPDDR5 deal
Samsung agrees to supply its LPDDR4X automotive chip to Qualcomm South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday…
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Kioxia’s TSE listing: Boon for SK Hynix, bane for Samsung Electronics?
SK Hynix’s multi-chip package TOKYO – The planned initial public offering (IPO) of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. is…
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Samsung to offer 7 years of free Tizen OS upgrade for AI TVs
Yong Seok-woo, president and head of Samsung’s visual display business division Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smart TV maker,…
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Samsung’s new 2 nm foundry process to cut chip size by 17%
Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2024 was held in San Jose, California in June A new contract chipmaking technology, dubbed the…
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Samsung tops S.Korean smartphone market with 76% share
In the second quarter of this year, the market share of Samsung Electronics Co. in the South Korean smartphone market…
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SY Lee: A Korean startup creator who fetched $80 mn for Story Protocol
PIP Labs CEO and Story Protocol Co-founder SY Lee Seung Yoon Lee, a South Korean startup creator, was in his…
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Samsung Electronics tops global TV sales in H1
Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its top position in the global TV market in the first half of this year, bolstered…
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SK seeks sale of specialty gas unit for around $3 bn
Researcher at SK Specialty’s laboratory (File photo, courtesy of SK) SK Group, the second-largest conglomerate in South Korea, is considering…
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Samsung to unveil industry’s highest-capacity eSSD in November
Samsung attends FMS 2024, the international annual meeting of flash memory chipmakers in Santa Clara Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s…
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Samsung’s Circle to Search available on Galaxy A series to rival Xiaomi
Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone’s Circle to Search function demonstrated at Galaxy Unpacked 2024 Samsung Electronics Co. has been fighting Apple…
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Samsung’s AI home appliances hit 1.5 mn units sold
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday that its cumulative sales of AI-integrated home appliances have surpassed 1.5 million units as…
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Samsung, Trek Bicycle launch Ultra Riding Challenge
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday that it launched the Ultra Riding Challenge in collaboration with global bicycle brand Trek…
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Korea’s retail investors buy stocks on dips in turmoil
(Courtesy of Getty Images) South Korea’s individual investors took the recent turmoil in stock markets as chances to buy shares…
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TCL narrows gap with Samsung with premium mini LED TVs
TCL’s mini LED TVs on display at CES 2024 in Las Vegas China’s TCL Technology, the world’s No. 2 TV…
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Korea’s Investment forum KIW 2024 to kick off September 9
Korea Investment Week 2023 South Korea’s largest investment forum Korea Investment Week 2024 (KIW 2024) will kick off next month…
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Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling
Trading room at Kookmin Bank’s branch in Yeouido, Seoul on August 5 (Courtesy of Yonhap) Foreigners and institutional investors in…
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Gas maker Air Products Korea put on sale for around $3.6 bn
Air Products Korea’s factory in Ulsan (Courtesy of Air Products) US industrial gas maker Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has…
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Memory chip demand to stay firm until H1, 2025: SK Hynix CEO
SK Hynix chip plant in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, S. Korea (Courtesy of SK Hynix) The memory chip market is expected…
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PUBG’s Krafton taps ex-Apple, Samsung execs for global business
(File photo by Krafton) South Korean gaming giant Krafton Inc., renowned for its mega-hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), hired former executives…
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South Korean stocks rebound but on rollercoaster ride
Kospi and Kosdaq rebounded on Aug. 6, 2024 from the previous day (Courtesy of Yonhap) South Korean stocks on Tuesday…
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Samsung produces thinnest low-power DRAM for AI mobile devices
The new LPDDR5X DRAM package (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, started the mass…
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South Korean stock market crashes; more falls ahead
The Kospi suffers the biggest point loss in its history on Aug. 5, 2024 The South Korean stock market was…
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Korean tech stocks suffer falls despite strong Q2 results
Despite strong earnings in the second quarter, 60% of listed companies saw their stock prices decline Some 60% of the…
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Will Samsung benefit from Nvidia’s new AI chip delays?
Nvidia Blackwell (File photo downloaded from Nvidia website) Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, is likely to benefit…
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S.Korean stocks log largest daily loss since pandemic
The Kospi index hit a nearly two-month closing low of 2,676.19 South Korean stock market dropped more than 3% on…
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Samsung invests in US AI security startup Protect AI
The founders of Protect AI (Screenshot captured from Protect AI website) Samsung Venture Investment Corp., Samsung Electronics Co.’s venture capital…
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LG Display to sell its last LCD plant to CSOT for around $1.5 bn
LG Display’s LCD plant in Guangzhou, China (Courtesy of LG Display) South Korea’s LG Display Co. plans to sell its…
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Samsung, Ottogi unveil exclusive lifestyle TV goods
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that it collaborated with the domestic food company Ottogi to release limited edition goods…
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Samsung’s new chip leader calls for restoring competitiveness
It is urgent to restore Samsung Electronics Co.’s competitiveness in the semiconductor business, the chip division’s new head said in…
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Samsung releases 1-terabyte microSD cards for mobile devices
Samsung releases two types of new microSD cards (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday released higher-capacity memory…
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Samsung confirms strong Q2 profit on brisk AI chip sales
Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor manufacturing facility (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday reported 10.4 trillion won ($7.5 billion)…
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SK Hynix aims for graphics chip supremacy with GDDR7 in Q3
SK Hynix’s GDDR7 graphics memory chip SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on…
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Samsung, LG bet big on gaming monitors on esport boom
Korean top video game player Lee Sang-hyeok, better known as Faker, poses with Samsung Electronics Odyssey gaming monitor series (Courtesy…
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Sapien Semiconductors aims to overtake Novatek in microLED DDI chip
Sapien Semiconductors CEO Lee Myung-hee with the chip design firm’s LEDoS CMOS backplane product samples South Korea’s Sapien Semiconductors Inc.…
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Samsung SmartThings gets global certification for information security
Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Friday that its global connected living platform SmartThings received the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information…
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SK Hynix makes drastic turnaround with $4 billion Q2 profit; HBM in focus
SK Hynix’s DRAM plant in Icheon SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on…
