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2 weeks ago | 
kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading memory chipmaker, is in talks to supply customized sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM4, chips to major AI chipmakers, including Nvidia Corp., Broadcom Inc. and Google LLC. The South Korean tech giant expects to begin supplying HBM4 to its clients as early as the first half of 2026, company executives and industry sources said on Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim
Samsung Display Co., the display-making unit under Samsung Electronics Co., will exclusively supply organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for Apple Inc.’s first foldable iPhone series, which are expected to hit the market late next year. As the South Korean display giant is chosen as the sole provider for the world’s No. 1 smartphone seller, it is projected to cement its lead in the global foldable OLED display market with a share of more than 70% versus the current about 40%.
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1 month ago | 
kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim
Samsung Electronics Co. has appointed TM Roh, president and head of its mobile eXperience (MX) business, as the new chief of its device eXperience (DX) division, filling a leadership vacuum left by the South Korean tech giant’s late Vice Chairman Han Jong-hee’s sudden death about a week ago. Roh’s appointment signals Samsung’s more aggressive push in artificial intelligence across its set business, encompassing smartphones, TVs and other home appliances.
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2 months ago | 
kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim |Eui-Myung Park
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has put its system chip and foundry businesses under tight scrutiny for a possible business overhaul, including an executive reshuffle and employee relocation, as it faces an uphill battle against rivals such as Taiwan’s TSMC.
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2 months ago | 
kedglobal.com | Chae-yeon Kim
LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s top appliance maker, has rebranded its 10-year-old premium built-in kitchen appliance business to double down on the g
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
kedglobal.com | Chae-yeon Kim |Jeong-Soo Hwang
Shin Je-yoon, former chairman of South Korea’s top financial regulator Financial Services Commission (FSC), will likely assume the role of Samsung Electronics Co.’s board chairman. Industry sources said on Friday he will be named the leading candidate for the job at Samsung’s board meeting on Feb. 18, when the company is slated to shortlist internal and external director candidates.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
kedglobal.com | Chae-yeon Kim |Jeong-Soo Hwang |Lan Heo
Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong was found not guilty of accounting fraud, stock manipulation and other criminal charges by a Seoul appeals court on Monday – a ruling that will remove long-running legal risks that he has faced for a decade.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kedglobal.com | Chae-yeon Kim
LAS VEGAS – Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will unveil a sample of an ultra-compact all-solid-state battery within the year for mass production in 2026 and expects to start producing glass substrates for semiconductor packaging after 2027, said its Chief Executive Chang Duckhyun. Last year, Samsung announced the development of the all-solid-state battery tailored to wearable devices, which boasts a high energy density comparable to that of lithium-ion batteries.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
kedglobal.com | Jeong-Soo Hwang |Chae-yeon Kim
Samsung Electronics Co. flagged weaker-than-expected earnings for the last quarter of last year due to a fall in memory chip prices and soft demand for its smartphones and other mobile devices. South Korea’s largest memory chip producer on Wednesday reported in a regulatory filing that its preliminary operating profit for the fourth quarter ended in December 2024 stood at 6.50 trillion won ($4.5 billion), more than doubling from a year ago.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
kedglobal.com | Chae-yeon Kim
Samsung Electronics Co.'s new contract chipmaking or foundry business chief said on Monday he will go all-in to improve the company’s advanced 2-nanometer chip processing technology and secure more clients to take on bigger foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. In his inaugural message to Samsung employees as head of its foundry business, Han Jin-man said he will pursue a “two-track strategy” to narrow its technology gap with TSMC and fend off competition with fast-followers,...
