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 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

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 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 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

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

Capstone Partners: Korea's 'guardian angel' for early-stage startups

In 2018, a South Korean food startup GoPizza Co. was on the brink of shutting down. Lim Jae-won, GoPizza's founder, had launched the business with a...

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

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

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

Samsung to make Tesla’s HW 4.0 self-driving auto chip

SILICON VALLEY – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading chipmaker, will manufacture Tesla Inc.’s next-generation hardware 4 ...

Taylor city in Texas likely to host Samsung’s new US chip plant

The global semiconductor industry is keeping a close eye on whether Taylor, a city located in Williamson County of Texas and the most probable site ...

Samsung Bioepis gets FDA approval for Lucentis biosimilar Byooviz

Samsung Bioepis Co., a leading South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Byoovi...

SK Innovation to supply batteries to Hyundai IONIQ 7

SK Innovation Co. is set to supply batteries for the IONIQ 7, Hyundai Motor Co.’s large electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) to be unveiled in...

Samsung C&T, S-Oil in hydrogen transport partnership

Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, has tentatively agreed with S-Oil Corp. to cooperate in securing overseas ...

Celltrion makes first step in streamlining governance structure

South Korea’s pharmaceutical conglomerate Celltrion Group has made its very first step in reforming corporate governance structure by merging ...

KT, Samsung Medical Center extend ties in building robot-driven hospitals

KT Corp. and Samsung Group’s medical facility Samsung Medical Center (SMC) have made another step forward in creating a next-generation hospit...

Samsung unveils new microSD cards for advanced storage demand

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip maker, introduced new microSD cards with enhanced performance and stability on Sept. 8 to...

S.Korea kicks off AI strategy talks with Naver, Kakao, Samsung, telcos

South Korean government has hosted the first top-level artificial intelligence (AI) roundtable meeting with representatives from the country’s...

LG Innotek, Samsung Electro-Mechanics benefit from wafer shortage

South Korea’s semiconductor substrate producers including LG Innotek and Samsung Electro-Mechanics are benefiting as a global wafer shortage...

SK Ecoplant to sell plant building business before IPO

SK Ecoplant Co., formerly known as SK Engineering & Construction Co., is in advanced stages of talks with a consortium of South Korea-based IUM ...

Samsung sells $1.3 bn stake in China’s BYD, keeps watchers puzzled

Samsung Electronics Co. has sold a 1.6% stake worth 1.5 trillion won ($1.3 billion) in Chinese electric vehicle and rechargeable battery maker BYD C...

Blockbuster startup IPOs curb NPS' VC diversification

South Korean startups' blockbuster initial public offerings over the past year, including Krafton Inc. and HYBE Co., have left the National Pension ...

Samsung, LG see largest surge in TV prices in decade

Lee Ji-eun, a 30-year-old bride-to-be, was surprised at the prices of liquid-crystal display (LCD) TVs when she visited a home appliance store in ...

Samsung Elec unveils world’s 1st 200-megapixel mobile image sensor

Samsung Electronics Co. has become the first company to launch a 200-megapixel mobile image sensor, giving the world’s No. 2 image sensor make...

Software giant Hancom joins space race with satellite launch

South Korean software and ICT conglomerate Hancom Group will be the first private company in the country to launch a micro-satellite, or a satellite...

Samsung Biologics gears up to produce mRNA drug substance

South Korea’s Samsung Biologics Co. is gearing up for the drug substance (DS) sector of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based COVID-19 v...

Samsung SDI tops LG Chem in market cap amid GM recall crisis

Samsung SDI Co. has become South Korea’s top battery maker in terms of market capitalization. The company is now ranked as the sixth-largest f...

Samsung to ramp up production capacity of foldable devices by 50%

Samsung Electronics Co. will expand the production capacity of foldable devices amid an unexpected global craze over its Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip ...