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...Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both declined to comment. But a person familiar with the companies confirmed the stockpiling was related to US export controls on China and sanctions on Russia....
...Samsung regained its position as the world’s largest smartphone maker by volume in the first quarter, according to market researcher International Data Corporation, just three months after Apple claimed...
...After decades of concentrating production in China and Taiwan, electronic assemblers such as Foxconn, Quanta and Wistron, along with major chip suppliers from TSMC to United Microelectronics Corporation,...
...Samsung assembles half of its smartphones in the country....
...Chang started TSMC in 1987 after the Taiwanese government recruited him from the US to help create an electronics industry....
...On Tuesday, prosecutors in Seoul accused Mr Lee and 10 of his senior lieutenants of spearheading illegal moves to cement Mr Lee’s control over the group’s crown jewel Samsung Electronics....
...The plant, due to start mass production next year, will use process technology which so far only TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics have mastered — at present, the most advanced chips are 5nm....
...The move is the latest escalation in a legal saga over whether company executives orchestrated moves to transfer power at Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest producer of computer chips and smartphones...
...Wistron, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that supplies Apple, is also in talks to invest about $50m....
...Samsung SDI Sector: electronics / HQ: yongin, South Korea Booming demand for TVs, tablets and other mobile devices has boosted this specialist maker of electronics for semiconductors and display panels...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Banning Huawei could also tempt rival equipment makers such as Samsung and Japan’s NEC Corporation to enter the Australian 5G market, although most analysts predicted costs would still rise....
...When the deal was assembled last September to rescue Toshiba from an existential financial crisis, two Japanese state-backed financial institutions — Innovation Network Corporation of Japan and Development...
...Shares in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, two of Korea’s largest chipmakers, were down 1.1 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively, on Tuesday....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...A number of local corporations, including Sony, Canon, Fujifilm and Nikon, were listed by Nikkei on Wednesday as having been approached as part of a ¥100bn ($888m) capital raising to advance the project...
...JOLED was formed in 2015 through a merger of the OLED operations of Sony and Panasonic and is 75 per cent owned by the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, a government-backed fund....
...South Korea, a country long characterised by too-close relationships between corporations and government, could be in the opening stages of a bloodless and lawful revolution....
...If Toshiba keep dragging their feet they are losing all this ground to Samsung. This is what worries us most.” Samsung had unveiled plans to spend $7bn on expanding capacity, he said....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...The judge rejected prosecutors’ request to arrest Park Sang-jin, the president of Samsung Electronics....
...Samsung Electronics is seeking to achieve “solid earnings growth” in 2017 as it attempts to put the drama of its inflammable Note 7 smartphones behind it....
...Investors are closely watching if a cumulative voting system — which allows individual investors to apply all of their votes toward one candidate for board directorship — becomes mandatory for corporations...
...The US Department of Justice has weighed in on the patent battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics, recommending the Supreme Court send the case back to lower courts to reassess the appropriate amount...
...The decision by the top court also gives renewed hope to Samsung as the South Korean electronic group seeks to reduce the damages of $548m it agreed to pay Apple after losing a series of appeals in patent...
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