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Samsung’s on the fence regarding Joe Biden’s chip infrastructure plans

Monday's White House meeting between US President Joe Biden and the industry's largest semiconductor companies — including Samsung — has concluded. The details of the summit remain behind closed curtains but the US President's intentions have become clearer, as he highlighted the importance of having a strong semiconductor infrastructure. ‘These chips, these wafers […] batteries, […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Samsung’s influence over the smartphone memory market keeps growing

Samsung remained the largest global smartphone memory manufacturer in 2020 and the company improved its DRAM and NAND market share by a couple of points, reveals new data from market research firm Strategy Analytics via The Korea Bizwire. The source claims that the global smartphone memory market grew by 4% on-year in 2020, topping $41 […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Analysts: Samsung to post robust Q1 earnings thanks to mobile division

Samsung is expected to post its Q1 earnings guidance next week but preliminary data from market analysts cited by Yonhap News looks promising already. Industry watchers expect Samsung's robust earnings from the mobile business to have balanced out the company's poor performance in the semiconductor space. Analysts predict the company will record 60.64 trillion won […]

By Mihai Matei
3 years ago

Samsung maintains DRAM lead in Q2 but Q3 might not be as profitable

Samsung's share in the global DRAM market saw a slight quarter-on-quarter decline in Q2 2020, but the company's revenues did rebound, shows a recent report by market research firm TrendForce via Yonhap. Although Samsung's global DRAM market share declined by 0.6% to 43.5% in the April-June period compared to the previous quarter, its revenues have […]

By Mihai Matei
4 years ago

Samsung improves DRAM market share amid COVID-19 pandemic

According to TrendForce data cited by Yonhap News, Samsung's DRAM revenues declined in Q1 2020 in no small part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite these hurdles, Samsung managed to remain dominant in the global DRAM market throughout the January-March period and even boosted its market share. Samsung's global DRAM market share stood at […]

By Mihai Matei
4 years ago

Samsung chip manufacturing plant in South Korea catches fire

It is being reported that fire broke out in Samsung's chip manufacturing plant in South Korea. However, no casualties have been reported so far. The South Korean chip giant has claimed earlier today that the production won't be affected due to the fire. The company makes memory, storage, and application processors at the plant. The […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 years ago

Samsung starts mass production of 6nm and 7nm EUV chips

Samsung has announced that its foundry business has started mass producing 6nm and 7nm chips using the EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) lithography process. The company's new V1 facility, which is also its first dedicated production line for manufacturing chips using the EUV process, broke ground in February of 2018 and started testing wafers production in the […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 years ago

Samsung wins contract to manufacture Qualcomm’s X60 5G modem

Qualcomm's latest 5G modem was unveiled earlier today under the X60 moniker, and it didn't take long for fresh reports to emerge and suggest that the new 5G solution will be manufactured by Samsung in its own facilities using a 5-nanometer process. Compared to the X55's 7nm process, 5nm provides better energy efficiency and performance […]

By Mihai Matei
4 years ago

Samsung was the only major DRAM supplier to make a turnaround in Q4

Samsung's DRAM business in Q4 2019 saw a decline in revenue of 5% and a 1.6% drop in market share, yet the company managed to maintain its top spot in the segment and remains the only major DRAM supplier in the market to have made a turnaround in Q4 2019, according to The Korea Herald […]

By Mihai Matei
4 years ago

Samsung’s Hwaseong incident won’t affect DRAM prices in the first quarter

Samsung ended 2019 on a low note, when a power outage at its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Hwaseong, South Korea has caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. The good news for the consumer market is that the unfortunate event is unlikely to affect commodity DRAM prices in the first quarter of the year. […]

By Mihai Matei
4 years ago

Samsung factory likely suffers millions in losses due to a blackout

Absolutely nothing can be allowed to go wrong at a semiconductor manufacturing plant. The manufacturing process for these chips requires exceptional care and even the slightest of hiccups can cause millions in damages. That's what's feared to have happened at Samsung's massive chip complex in Hwaseong, South Korea. Production had to be temporarily halted at […]

By Daniel van Dorp
5 years ago

Samsung increases lead over Intel in chip sales

Samsung’s semiconductor business has been performing exceptionally well in the last couple of years. The Korean company has posted record profits in the last few quarters, primarily due to the stellar performance by its semiconductor division. The fact that Samsung dethroned Intel as the largest chipmaker in the world in 2017 demonstrates its rapid growth […]

By Naresh
6 years ago

Samsung closes profitability gap with Apple no thanks to smartphones

Samsung and Apple have both posted their earnings results for this past quarter and the numbers show that Samsung has done a great job at closing the profitability gap with its biggest rival. However, while the iPhone drives much of Apple's profits, it's a different story over at Samsung. So even though Samsung has been […]

By Adnan Farooqui
6 years ago

Samsung doesn’t feel threatened by Chinese chip rivals

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have given Samsung a run for its money in the global smartphone market and now they have their sights set on Samsung's lead in the semiconductor market. The country purchases almost a fifth of the global DRAM supply and has been funding the creation of domestic memory producers to reduce imports and […]

By Adnan Farooqui
6 years ago

Samsung to work with IBM on quantum computing

IBM launched its IBM Q initiative not too long ago. It's the first initiative of its kind in the industry to build commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science applications. Samsung is one of the first clients to tap into the IBM Q quantum computing systems to explore practical applications of the technology. […]

By Martin R.
7 years ago

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