Intensifying competition among Chinese smartphone makers over high-pixel cameras is pushing up the adoption of Samsung Electronics' image sensors. Chinese smartphone makers want to attract customers with low-price, high-performance products.Samsung Electronics aims to ramp up its share of the im

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company’s semiconductor assembly plant in Onyang, South Chungcheong Province, on Aug. 6 as the first destination for his on-spot management after Japan excluded South Korea from its trade whitelist.Lee visited the Onyang plant to check its s

Samsung Electronics announced on Aug. 6 that it has begun mass-producing 250-gigabyte (GB) SATA solid state drive (SSD) that integrates the company’s 6th-generation (1xx-layer) 256-gigabit (Gb) three-bit V-NAND. The company has delivered the SSDs to a global PC manufacturer.The new SSD is based on t

Memory chip manufacturers such as Micron Technology, SK Hynix and Western Digital have recently announced that they would cut production in step with a decline in global demand. On the contrary, Samsung Electronics said that it is not going to reduce its memory chip production and it is going to dea

Samsung Electronics Co. has suggested that it may partially adjust its output of memory semiconductors such as DRAM and NAND flash. Previously, the company made it clear that it would not artificially cut production. The company is expected to convert some memory production lines to non-memory ones,

Concerns are growing that Japan's economic retaliation against Korea, which started in the semiconductor and display sectors, may expand and hit the Korean industry as a whole.As Japan is expected to remove South Korea from a "whitelist" of trusted importers, Korean companies that import the 1,1

The Japanese government announced on July 1 that it would start to restrict the export of semiconductor and display materials to South Korea from July 4, causing many South Korean companies to be nervous.“Japanese companies now must obtain a permission from the Japanese government to export resist,

Samsung Electronics has made it clear that it would not cut production of memory semiconductors such as DRAMs. In addition, the global semiconductor giant said it is difficult to assess the impact of Japan's export curbs on its semiconductor business, pledging it would minimize damage through va

The operating profit of Samsung Electronics Co. in the semiconductor business stood at 3.40 trillion won (US$2.87 billion) in the second quarter of this year, the lowest in three years after recording 3.37 trillion won in the third quarter of 2016. The company’s operating margin fell to 21.13 percen

Standard & Poor's (S&P) announced on July 30 that it has maintained its credit rating on Samsung Electronics Co. at "AA-" and its rating outlook at “stable.”"We expect that Samsung Electronics will maintain its solid financial statement over the next two years despite the slowdown in the memory

While Korean companies have been faltering under unfavorable circumstances at home and abroad, their global competitors are enhancing their competitiveness through acquisitions and partnerships. In particular, Chinese semiconductor companies are increasing their investment in non-memory semiconducto

South Korea has 48 items for which it relies on Japanese imports more than 90 percent, according to a report on released by Hyundai Research Institute on July 28Korea imported 4,227 items from Japan in 2018. Among them, Korea relied on Japanese imports more than 90 percent for 48 items. The value of

Samsung Electronics will hold a foundry forum in Japan in September despite the worsening trade conflicts between Korea and Japan. Industry experts say that Samsung wants to deliver the message that there is no disruption to its foundry business despite Japan’s restrictions on exports of semiconduct

SK Hynix Inc., the second largest DRAM producer in the world, announced on July 25 that it would cut back DRAM production starting from the fourth quarter of this year, following Samsung Electronics Co.The company also said it is planning to increase its NAND flash wafer input cut from 10 percent in

Samsung Electronics will begin volume production of the industry’s first 12 Gb mobile DRAMs, which offer the highest speed and largest capacity ever achieved, late this month. The newly developed product is expected to go into the Galaxy S11, the company’s flagship smartphone to be launched early ne

Samsung Electronics secured high-purity hydrogen fluoride equivalent to a two-month inventory after the Japanese government restricted the export of semiconductor and display materials to South Korea on July 4. The company is planning to keep improving the efficiency of its semiconductor manufacturi

The aggregate annual operating profit of 229 companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets this year is estimated at 134.51 trillion won (US$113.76 billion), down 24.6 percent from last year, according to Seoul-based market tracker FnGuide on July 17. The net profit is also forecast to drop 20.8

The international spot prices of memory chips are rebounding fast with the Japanese government restricting the export of semiconductor materials to South Korea. Under the circumstances, global semiconductor market conditions are expected to get better earlier than previously thought.According to mar

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the No. 1 and No. 2 memory chipmakers in the world, are responding to Japan’s export curbs in different ways. In the case of Samsung Electronics, vice chairman Lee Jae-Yong is in the forefront of searching for ways out of the crisis. At SK Hynix, working level offic

Japan-based Nomura Securities Co. said the country’s curbs on semiconductor material exports can help the South Korean semiconductor industry. This is because the price of memory chips will rise if an inventory is reduced through production cuts that can help ease the current oversupply situation.“T