Will Samsung stocks repeat December glory?

Will Samsung stocks repeat December glory?

Over the past decade, Samsung Electronics Co. ’s stocks have usually enjoyed a year-end rally every December on increasing dividends and hopes...

Samsung’s new auto chip mounted in Volkswagen’s infotainment system

Samsung’s new auto chip mounted in Volkswagen’s infotainment system

Samsung Electronics Co. is supplying one of its latest advanced chips to Volkswagen AG for the German carmaker’s in-vehicle infotainment syste...

Samsung to adopt flatter hierarchy to lure young talent

Samsung to adopt flatter hierarchy to lure young talent

Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday announced a set of drastic steps to reduce bureaucracy and hierarchical management at the world's top memory chip ...

Samsung orders US chips, with a side of geopolitics

Samsung orders US chips, with a side of geopolitics

Every country wants a cutting-edge semiconductor plant. Samsung Electronics’ plan to build one in the U.S. is taking advantage of th...

Samsung’s $17 billion new chip plant in Taylor aims to rein in TSMC

Samsung’s $17 billion new chip plant in Taylor aims to rein in TSMC

Samsung Electronics Co. has officially announced its plan to build a $17 billion chipmaking plant in Taylor, Texas, as the tech giant aims to overta...

Samsung, Hynix notch best day this year; metaverse to drive chip demand

Samsung, Hynix notch best day this year; metaverse to drive chip demand

Shares of South Korea’s two largest chipmakers, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., have staged a strong rebound on an industry prospec...

Samsung, Korea Post create $336 mn overseas alternative investment fund

Samsung, Korea Post create $336 mn overseas alternative investment fund

South Korea's largest insurance company Samsung Life Insurance Co. and state-run postal savings and insurance agency Korea Post’s insurance ...

Samsung likely to announce US foundry investment plan this week

Samsung likely to announce US foundry investment plan this week

Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to announce an investment plan for its second US-based semiconductor foundry plant this week. As the South Kor...

Korea stocks see $2 bn inflow, stoking hopes for a foreigner comeback

Korea stocks see $2 bn inflow, stoking hopes for a foreigner comeback

Foreign investors have absorbed $2 billion in South Korean stock markets so far in November, spurring hopes of a foreign comeback, although doubts r...

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...

Korean Air gets Vietnam’s regulatory approval for acquisition of Asiana

Korean Air gets Vietnam’s regulatory approval for acquisition of Asiana

Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) said on Tuesday it has obtained regulatory approval from Vietnam for its 1.8 trillion won ($1.6 billion) deal to acquir...

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...

Korean Air surprises market with highest quarterly profit in 5 years

Korean Air surprises market with highest quarterly profit in 5 years

Korean Air Lines Co. (KAL) surprised the market on Friday by posting its highest third-quarter operating profit in five years, boosted by strong dem...

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...

Hyundai Glovis to build hydrogen supply chain with Air Products

Hyundai Glovis to build hydrogen supply chain with Air Products

Hyundai Glovis Co., a logistics unit of Hyundai Motor Group, agreed to set up a liquid hydrogen supply chain with Air Products, the world’s la...

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 ...

Kumho Asiana assures 30-year profits to Gate Gourmet in catering deal

Kumho Asiana assures 30-year profits to Gate Gourmet in catering deal

Kumho Asiana Group’s management assured net profits for 30 years to Gate Gourmet when the South Korean conglomerate signed a deal for Asiana A...

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...

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