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Samsung, Tesla in talks on 2 nm AI chip production for Dojo
Samsung Electronics Co. and Tesla Inc. are in talks over a deal for the South Korean tech giant to produce…
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President Lee meets Hyundai, LG chiefs, promotes ‘one team’ approach
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Euisun (left) and President Lee Jae-myung met at the presidential office on July 14 (Courtesy…
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Vietnam’s top leader to make first South Korea visit in 11 years
To Lam, general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party and the country’s de facto ruling leader To Lam, general secretary of…
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Samsung supplies newest nanoprism image sensors to Xiaomi to crack Sony’s lead
Samsung Electronics’ ISOCELL image sensor-1 (Screenshot from the company’s website) Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying a new high-performance image sensor…
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Samsung to launch AI health coach beta in US by end of 2025
Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch series (Courtesy of Samsung Electronics) NEW YORK – Samsung Electronics Co. will roll out a…
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Samsung to unveil 1st triple-folding smartphone by year’s end to rival Huawei’s Mate X2 Tri-Fold
TM Roh, chief of Samsung’s DX Division, holds a press conference after unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold7 at the Galaxy…
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Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z foldables: Slimmest, lightest yet smarter with AI features
TM Roh, chief of Samsung’s DX Division, showcases the Galaxy Z Fold7 at the Galaxy Unpacked event in July 2025…
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Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push
(Screenshot captured from Xealth website) Samsung Electronics Co. will acquire Xealth, a US-based healthcare platform provider, as it steps up…
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Samsung’s Q2 operating profit plunges 56% on sluggish chip sales
Samsung flag (Courtesy of Yonhap) Samsung Electronics Co.’s operating profit in the second quarter missed market expectations, with a 56%…
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Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ plan to build plant in Mexico shelved amid Trump tariffs
Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ high-voltage automotive MLCCs for EV battery management systems Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker,…
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IGIS Asset resumes sale of KIC-backed Shilla Stay Seodaemun
Shilla Stay Seodaemun (Courtesy of IGIS Asset Management) Shilla Stay Seodaemun has been put on the market again amid signs…
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Samsung’s Q2 profit seen weaker, bottoming out in H2
Samsung is set to release its latest foldable phone models — Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip 7 — on…
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LG Electronics acquires Norway’s OSO in bold HVAC expansion
(Courtesy of LG Electronics) LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s leading electronics company, is doubling down on its bid to lead…
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S.Korea names budget veteran as finance minister to prop up economy
Koo Yoon-cheol, South Korea’s finance minister nominee, speaks to the press on June 29, 2025 (Courtesy of News1) South Korean…
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MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field eyed
Currency dealers closely monitors the dollar-won movement in Seoul South Korea’s years-long bid for a developed-market status has suffered yet…
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SK Hynix joins Samsung in 200 trillion won market cap club
SK Hynix showcased a sample of the world’s first 16-layer HBM3E at CES 2025 (Courtesy of Yonhap) SK Hynix Inc.…
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Samsung on hiring spree to bolster US foundry sales
Samsung Foundry Forum 2024 qA held in San Jose, California on June 12-13, 2024 Samsung Electronics Co. is on a…
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Is chip winter over? Doomsayers gone as Korea’s DRAM exports surge
A researcher in a Samsung Electronics chip cleanroom Global memory chip markets, long weighed down by excess inventories and sagging…
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Xiaomi to open first offline store in S.Korea with premium products
Xiaomi’s flagship premium Xiaomi Ultra 15 smartphone, featuring Leica carmera lenses (Courtesy of News1 Korea) Xiaomi Inc., a Chinese technology…
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Google to invest $100 mn in Gentle Monster in XR glasses push
Gentle Monster is renowned for its conceptually designed retail spaces Google LLC has signed an agreement to invest around 145.0…
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Samsung to thrash out strategy amid Trump, Middle East crisis
Samsung’s logo is seen at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024, the world’s largest AV systems show in Barcelona, Spain…
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S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services
A researcher checks a bioreactor inside a Samsung Biologics cell-cultivating facilicy (Courtesy of Samsung Biologics) Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s…
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President Lee: Businesses at center of policy priorities for economic growth
President Lee Jae-myung (center) speaks before meeting with business leaders on June 13, 2025 South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on…
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Samsung supplies HBM3E to AMD’s new accelerators
AMD MI350 series (Screenshot captured from AMD’s online news release) Samsung Electronics Co. has delivered the fifth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM)…
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Micron set to supply SOCAMM chips to Nvidia ahead of Samsung, SK Hynix
Micron SOCAMM is a modular LPDDR5X memory solution for AI servers in data centers (Courtesy of Micron) In a move…
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Lee Jae-myung to meet with top business leaders ahead of G7 summit
President Lee Jae-myung (center) is set to meet with top business leaders next week South Korea’s newly elected President Lee…
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Markets in honeymoon with Lee: Kospi, won rally; bond yields spike
President Lee Jae-myung hosts his first cabinet meeting on June 5, 2025 South Korea’s financial markets showed strong gains on…
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Samsung teases new foldable phones with advanced AI
Unpacked event for Galaxy Z Fold6 and Flip6 in Paris, France in 2024 (Courtesy of Yonhap) Samsung Electronics Co. will…
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Ex-TSMC executive joins Samsung Foundry to lead US expansion
Samsung Electronics’ chip cleanroom Samsung Electronics Co. has brought a former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) executive on board…
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Korea’s stablecoin trade at $42 bn; BOK balks at non-banks’ stablecoin deals
BOK Gov. Rhee Chang-yong (left) at fireside chat with US Fed Gov. Christopher Waller during the BOK’s 2025 International Conference…
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Samsung, Perplexity close to AI alliance: Bloomberg
Perplexity AI logo screenshot captured from the company website Samsung Electronics Co. is reportedly in advanced talks to equip its…
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Samsung to equip Galaxy Z Flip7 with Exynos AP at home
(Courtesy of Samsung) Samsung Electronics Co. plans to power its upcoming foldable smartphone with its new in-house application processor (AP),…
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Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain
Researchers at Samsung Biologics’ third plant in Songdo, Incheon A surge in orders from Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest…
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OpenAI sets up subsidiary in Korea with top paid ChatGPT users outside US
Jason Kwon, Open AI’s chief strategy officer (CSO), speaks during a media briefing in Seoul on May 26, 2025 OpenAI…
