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...

POSCO breaks ground on $101 million battery recycling plant

POSCO breaks ground on $101 million battery recycling plant

South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO on Thursday broke ground on its 120 billion won ($101 million) plant to extract nickel, lithium and cobalt,...

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...

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

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

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 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 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, 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 ...

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

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...

GS E&C to build EV battery recycling plant near POSCO

GS E&C to build EV battery recycling plant near POSCO

GS Engineering & Construction Co. (GS E&C) has launched the construction of its first lithium-ion battery recycling plant in a South Korean ...

Samsung unveils new microSD cards for advanced storage demand

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

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

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...

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