Samsung Biologics wins another Eli Lilly COVID treatment order

Samsung Biologics wins another Eli Lilly COVID treatment order

Samsung Biologics Co., a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has stepped up its partnerships with global big pharmas ...

Legendary chip architect Jim Keller may team up with Samsung Electronics

Legendary chip architect Jim Keller may team up with Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday hosted its third annual foundry forum, a gathering of its partners around the world, where legendary chip archit...

Amazon poised for Fire tablet launch in Korea next year

Amazon poised for Fire tablet launch in Korea next year

Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping mall, is set to release its own Fire tablets in South Korea from as early as next year, penetratin...

Samsung heir Lee on US trip for foundry investment, COVID vaccines

Samsung heir Lee on US trip for foundry investment, COVID vaccines

Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman and de facto leader of South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung, has embarked on a business trip to North America to f...

Samsung unveils 2.5D chip packaging tech for high-end products

Samsung unveils 2.5D chip packaging tech for high-end products

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new chip packaging technology, called H-Cube, which stacks high-performance chips in mu...

Daewoo Shipbuilding, Samsung Heavy win LNG carriers order from Qatar

Daewoo Shipbuilding, Samsung Heavy win LNG carriers order from Qatar

South Korea’s major shipbuilders Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. and Samsung Heavy Industries Co. won orders for six liquefie...

Wooyoungmi emerges as 'new luxury' menswear brand

Wooyoungmi emerges as 'new luxury' menswear brand

When South Korean menswear brand Wooyoungmi had the highest sales in the men’s fashion hall of Paris-based luxury department store Le Bon Marc...

Samsung Heavy raises $1.1 bn in rights issue as planned

Samsung Heavy raises $1.1 bn in rights issue as planned

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last week raised 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in a rights issue to existing shareholders as planned, a...

SK Hynix in $492 million Key Foundry deal, doubles foundry capacity

SK Hynix in $492 million Key Foundry deal, doubles foundry capacity

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said on Friday it is acquiring a 100% stake in South Korea-based Key Foundry for 5...

Uncertainty clouds Samsung as paradigm shifts toward profitability

Uncertainty clouds Samsung as paradigm shifts toward profitability

Samsung Electronics Co.’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday was almost perfect but for one thing. The world’s top memory maker s...

Samsung Biologics-made Moderna vaccine available to Koreans this week

Samsung Biologics-made Moderna vaccine available to Koreans this week

Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine first produced by Samsung Biologics Co. under a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) service will be avai...

Samsung SDI, Stellantis to build billion-dollar battery JV in US

Samsung SDI, Stellantis to build billion-dollar battery JV in US

Samsung SDI Co. has partnered with Dutch-domiciled multinational automaker Stellantis N.V. to build a multi-billion-dollar battery facility in the U...

Samsung aims to unveil autonomous ships in 2022

Samsung aims to unveil autonomous ships in 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last month successfully completed a sea trial of its self-operating vessel technology, which enables two autonomous shi...

Enchem: A Samsung hive-off that turns into an electrolyte giant

Enchem: A Samsung hive-off that turns into an electrolyte giant

When Cheil Industries, a former chemical unit of South Korea’s largest conglomerate Samsung Group, decided to hive off a business unit that ma...

Samsung shares' underperformance deepens on growth concerns, won

Samsung shares' underperformance deepens on growth concerns, won

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s largest stock on the main bourse, are significantly underperforming as analysts slash price t...

Huawei, Ericsson or Nokia? Apple or Samsung? US or China? Who’s winning the 5G races?

Huawei, Ericsson or Nokia? Apple or Samsung? US or China? Who’s winning the 5G races?

Once a glimmer in the eyes of executives from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley, 5G now dominates a broad swath of the global supply chain—and the ...

Samsung makes industry’s smallest 14 nm DDR5 chip with EUV technology

Samsung makes industry’s smallest 14 nm DDR5 chip with EUV technology

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Tuesday it has begun mass production of the industry’s smallest 1...

Tax burden pushes Samsung heirs to sell $1.8 bn worth of shares by April 2022

Tax burden pushes Samsung heirs to sell $1.8 bn worth of shares by April 2022

The heavy inheritance tax burden in South Korea is pushing the heirs of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee to sell about 2.2 trillion won (...

Samsung, SK Hynix to pay corporate taxes to foreign countries

Samsung, SK Hynix to pay corporate taxes to foreign countries

South Korea’s chipmaking giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix are set to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate taxes to fore...

Samsung surprises foundry industry with plan for 2 nm chips

Samsung surprises foundry industry with plan for 2 nm chips

Samsung Electronics Co. caught its global semiconductor competitors off guard last week at the Samsung Foundry Forum 2021 with its announced plan to...

Samsung Q3 operating profit at 3-year high on chips, Galaxy

Samsung Q3 operating profit at 3-year high on chips, Galaxy

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, reported its highest operating profit in three years with record ...

Samsung to make 2-nanometer GAA chips by 2025 to overtake TSMC

Samsung to make 2-nanometer GAA chips by 2025 to overtake TSMC

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday it will be able to commercialize a 2-nanometer transistor process technology by 2025 to take on bigger foun...

S.Korea shows rare unease against US request for Samsung data

S.Korea shows rare unease against US request for Samsung data

The South Korean government has expressed open concern about the recent request by the US Department of Commerce for more information on the global ...

Samsung's cash reserves dwindle on increased R&D, other investments

Samsung's cash reserves dwindle on increased R&D, other investments

Samsung Electronics Co. is well known for its ample cash reserves close to $100 billion, ready to spend where it deems necessary for growth.But the ...

Samsung Elec unveils solution for stable 5G voice calls

Samsung Elec unveils solution for stable 5G voice calls

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, has developed a software solution for more stable 5G voice calls in a move to incre...

Samsung, ARM chip design partner Gaonchips eyes IPO in 2022

Samsung, ARM chip design partner Gaonchips eyes IPO in 2022

South Korea’s leading semiconductor design house Gaonchips Co. has officially kicked off preparations to go public in the first half of 2022. ...

Samsung to install 51,000 air purifiers to help Australians return to school

Samsung to install 51,000 air purifiers to help Australians return to school

Samsung Electronics Co. will help the students in the Australian state of Victoria in making safe returns to the classroom in a post-COVID environme...

Hyundai Steel, Samsung develop tech to recycle chip waste for steelmaking

Hyundai Steel, Samsung develop tech to recycle chip waste for steelmaking

Hyundai Steel Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday they have developed technology that can recycle the chipmaker’s wastewater sludge...

Recycled plastic in growing demand as Korean firms pursue ESG business

Recycled plastic in growing demand as Korean firms pursue ESG business

Plastic recyclers have known for years that there is money to be made in plastic waste. And the stakes are high these days as the prices of recycled...

US pressures Samsung, chipmakers to disclose key internal data

US pressures Samsung, chipmakers to disclose key internal data

The American government is forcing global semiconductor manufacturers to submit internal information on their chip inventory as well as the number o...

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