Samsung Electronics has begun production of a toggle DDR 2.0 multi-level-cell (MLC) memory chip for use in smartphones, tablets, and solid state drives (SSDs). The new NAND flash chip features a 64-gigabit (Gb) density, made …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it will start mass-production of 8Gb(Gigabit) OneNAND chip for smartphones this month.
Based on a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash design, the new OneNAND addresses the …

Samsung Electronics and LG Display are suppliers of major components used in the iPad, a tablet computer by Apple Inc. that is expected to see worldwide sales of some seven million units this year, according …

South Korea’s exports of information technology (IT) products jumped 45.0 percent in March, led by increased demand for semiconductors, display panels and other tech items, a report showed Monday.
According to the report by the Ministry …

The price of NAND chips rose sharply Thursday after a power outage hit one of Samsung Electronics’s plants the previous day in Giheung, south of Seoul, an online chip broker said.
The daily average spot price …

Sales by South Korean chipmakers in 2009 expanded a combined 3.6 percent from a year earlier thanks to increased demand from handset makers, despite a sharp decrease in overall revenues for the global industry, a …

A Swiss-based financial firm on Friday picked Samsung Electronics of South Korea as the chipmaker most likely to lead the memory market in the first half of this year.
UBS said in a report it preferred …

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said Tuesday that it will start mass producing a 27-nanometer based NAND flash memory chip in the second quarter of this year.
“Samsung completed developing 27-nanometer process NAND flash …

Hynix Semiconductor, the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker, said Tuesday that it has developed a 26-nanometer based NAND flash memory chip, becoming the world’s second flash memory maker to apply the below 30-nanometer technology.
Hynix will start …

A team of South Korean engineers has made a new advance in a type of memory technology that could vastly improve mobile phone capabilities, a local university said Wednesday.
Seoul National University said the team’s new …