<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Elec going all-out in foundry, auto display and big-storage memory
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Samsung Elec going all-out in foundry, auto display and big-storage memory

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. vowed new leadership in foundry, automotive organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and large-storage memory to power datacenters on top of its dominance in computing memory and smartphones. The world’s leading chipmaker in an IR forum in Singapore on Monday drew investors’ attention to its new business focuses. It has been investing heavily in the foundry business to achieve its goal to generate more than $10 billion from the contract-based chipmaking, twice more than last year’s $4.6 billion. Foundry is a business that manufactures and packages chips upon client orders. Although unrivalled in commercial chips, Samsung is ranked fourth in customized chipmaking. “The global foundry market is projected to grow 5 percent from last year to reach $63 billion this year,” the company said. If it makes $10 billion in sales, it would be second after pure-play industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The company also said that it would focus on auto OLED panels business as it expects the market to grow rapidly from 100,000 sheets this year to 1 million by 2020 and 3 million by 2022 as applications for flexible displays grow amid the spread of embedded computing in devices and wearables. Its affiliate Samsung Display dominates in small and mid-sized OLED field. Upon unveiling its new products including a steering wheel equipped with an OLED panel, curved center information display (CID) and transparent head-up display (HUD), it said it is confident to take the lead in the auto display market with its technological prowess in producing thinner and lighter panels with outstanding picture quality and power efficiency. German luxury carmaker Audi installed Samsung Display’s OLED panels in its fourth-generation A8 models. In addition, the company said its wafer output through extreme ultra violet (EUV) chip making process would increase from 1,100 wafers this year to 1,300 by 2019 and 1,500 by 2020 with its own technology to minimize recess time. EUV refers to 7-nano or lower micro processing technology. In nanometer technology, smaller number represents generation in greater yields and more powerful chips. Samsung Electronics is building a new foundry at a cost of 6 trillion won capable of mass-producing 7-nanometer or lower chips from the second half. 
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Release time：2018-06-06 00:00 reading：1194 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> confirms investigation by China’s antitrust agency
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Samsung confirms investigation by China’s antitrust agency

Samsung China confirmed to the Global Times late Sunday that it has been investigated and is now "actively cooperating with China's antitrust agency."The response came after industry website Jiweinet reported on Friday that the Chinese antitrust agency launched a sudden investigation into the Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen offices of Samsung, SK Hynix Inc and Micron Technology Inc on Thursday seeking certain information.The report said that investigations may have been sparked by concern about continued price increases for memory chips in the domestic market. Micron, the largest US maker of computer memory chips, responded that "Micron confirms that China's State Administration for Market Regulation authorities visited Micron's China sales offices on May 31 seeking certain information," Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing a statement the US-based company sent to it."Micron is cooperating with Chinese officials," read the statement.In May, the Chinese antitrust agency conducted an interview with Micron, and it also conducted investigations into whether the two South Korea-based companies (Samsung and SK Hynix) and Micron jointly manipulated DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) prices in the Chinese market, domestic news site Economic Observer reported on Sunday.In 2017, the three giants accounted for 96 percent of the global DRAM market. The three companies' total revenue in the semiconductor business in China reached $44.68 billion, up 39.1 percent year-on-year, the report noted.If the three chip giants are found to have a price monopoly according to Chinese laws, it is estimated that they might face fines ranging between $800 million and $8 billion, said the report.
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Release time：2018-06-04 00:00 reading：1135 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Electronics’ Semiconductor Business Has Best-Ever Business Performance
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Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor Business Has Best-Ever Business Performance

Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business posted the highest-ever ratio of operating profit to sales of more than 60 percent for the 1st quarter of this year, leading the company to its best-ever business performance. As demand for DRAMs and NAND Flash chips remains strong in the second quarter of this year, some predictions have already indicated that Samsung Electronics will likely surpass the 60 trillion won barrier in operating profit for the whole of the year. But the outlook for Samsung Electronics’ best-ever business performances will likely depend on Chinese chip makers, which are forecast to flood the market with their own DRAMs and NAND Flash memory chips after 2019.Samsung Electronics said on April 26 it chalked up 60.56 trillion won in sales and 15.64 trillion won in operating profit in the first quarter of the year. The figures represent an 8 percent drop in sales compared to the fourth quarter of last year, but an about 3 percent rise in operating profit, showing an improvement of profitability. Leading Samsung Electronics’ charming business performance is the company’s memory business sector with its proprietary technology competitiveness. The semiconductor business logged 20.78 trillion won in sales and 11.55 trillion won in operating profit, seeing a ratio of operating profit to sales stand at 55.6 percent. Samsung Electronics has seen a ratio of operating profit to sales jump 15 percentage points to 55.6 percent in one year from 40.3 percent in the 1st quarter of 2017. That’s partly due to the company’s four to five years head start in technology.The ratio of operating profit to sales for the semiconductor business is so huge that the figure accounts for 73.3 percent of the company’s total ratio of operating profit to sales. Despite the off-season, the solid business performance was attributable to a strong demand with a focus on servers and the company’s marketing priority to high-capacity, high-value added products, a Samsung Electronics official said.
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Release time：2018-05-31 00:00 reading：1097 Continue reading>>
China demands <span style='color:red'>Samsung</span>, SK cut chip prices
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China demands Samsung, SK cut chip prices

Senior Chinese government officials have asked Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to cut memory chip prices for leading Chinese consumer electronics companies, sources familiar with the matter said Monday."Officials at China's commerce ministry and anti-trust agency asked Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to cut the prices of DRAM chips they sell to Chinese technology companies. Samsung representatives met with Chinese officials, the results of which were notified to Korea's trade ministry. SK hynix is keeping an eye on further developments on the price issue," a high-ranking government official said.Samsung Electronics declined to comment. No latest updates are available.The requests were apparently made due to China's concern over the continuing price increases for DRAMs, which are used in all digital devices. Chinese PC makers have been struggling under component cost pressure as Samsung and SK control over 75 percent of global demand as of the first quarter of 2018. China says it wants to ensure "fair competition" in the market, so that no single supplier becomes too dominant and manipulates prices.The two Korean companies are most likely to be investigated due to "limiting the amount of products for sale" as a violation of antitrust laws, said market researchers. If Samsung and SK pay a fine, it will be a one-time event.Sources at Samsung and SK say "price correction" isn't the only reason behind the latest action by China, adding it may want more cross-licensing with the Korean pair.China has been keen to establish a foothold in the semiconductor industry, as it looks to move into high-value manufacturing and maintain national security with "Made in China" components.Samsung, SK and Intel of the United States have established memory fabrication facilities in China over the past decade thanks to lower labor costs and favorable tax policies. "However, China is dissatisfied with the South Korean firms as they have been highly protective with less cross-licensing and often use older technology _ two or more generations behind _ to safeguard their intellectual property rights," said a Samsung source on the condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to officially speak to the media."With several failed efforts to acquire memory technology from the two companies, China wants to protect its companies from any sudden fallout by helping them save chip procurement costs from major suppliers. I believe more will happen as technology is critical to the cost structure in the memory chip industry," an SK source said.The indigenous memory technology in China remains three to five years behind that of the Korean companies. Lagging in competition by one generation often implies at least a 30 percent cost disadvantage. After factoring in the more rapid wafer density growth, Samsung and SK, for example, are expected to maintain a minimum five-year advantage in wafer density. "This implies significant losses for new entrants in an oversupply scenario that China doesn't really want to see," said the source.DRAMeXchange, a leading market research firm, anticipates such anti-trust investigations may happen again, and that may restrain price increases.
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Release time：2018-05-29 00:00 reading：1087 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> ordered to pay Apple $539M for patent infringement
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Samsung ordered to pay Apple $539M for patent infringement

A California jury on Thursday ordered Samsung to pay $539 million in damages to Apple Inc., six years after the South Korean tech giant was first found liable for infringing on five iPhone patents in its own smartphone designs.Of the total, Samsung must pay about $533.3 million for infringing on three Apple design patents and about $5.3 million for infringing on two utility patents. The infringements in question occurred in Android phones Samsung sold in 2010 and 2011, CNET reported.The jury’s ruling was significantly higher than the $28 million that Samsung argued it should pay. Apple, however, had sought damages in excess of $1 billion."Today's decision flies in the face of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of Samsung on the scope of design patent damages,” Samsung said in a statement. “We will consider all options to obtain an outcome that does not hinder creativity and fair competition for all companies and consumers."Samsung did not immediately clarify whether it will move forward with an appeal of the verdict.The deliberations stemmed from a long-simmering legal battle between the two tech giants. Samsung was sued for patent infringement in 2011 and found liable in 2012, but the process of determining how much Samsung should pay has dragged out in court for years.Samsung has already paid $399 million of the $539 million total, Reuters reported. If the jury’s decision is upheld on appeal, Samsung will have to pay the balance.“This case has always been about more than money,” Apple said in a statement. “Apple ignited the smartphone revolution with iPhone, and it is a fact that Samsung blatantly copied our design. It is important that we continue to protect the hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple."
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Plans 3nm Gate-All-Around FETs in 2021
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Samsung Plans 3nm Gate-All-Around FETs in 2021

Samsung Electronics laid out plans to bring to mass production in 2021 the architectural successor to FinFETS, gate-all-around (GAA) transistors, at the 3nm node. The South Korean giant also reaffirmed plans to begin 7nm production using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in the second half of this year at its annual foundry technology forum here Tuesday (May 22).GAA technology has been under development since the early 2000s by Samsung and other firms. GAA transistors are field-effect transistors (FET) that feature a gate on all four sides of the channel to overcome the physical scaling and performance limitations of FinFETs, including supply voltage.Samsung's proprietary GAA technology, known as multi-bridge-channel FET (MBCFET), has been in development since 2002, according to Ryan Sanghyun Lee, vice president of market for Samsung Foundry. MCBFET uses a nano-sheet device to enhance gate control, significantly improving the performance of the transistor, according to the company.Samsung said last year that it planned to use GAA transistors at the 4nm node starting in 2020. However, industry watchers expected GAA to be in production no earlier than 2022.Samuel Wang, a vice president in foundry research at Gartner, said he had expected Samsung to have GAA transistors production ready some time in 2022. "It looks like they are moving faster than that," Wang said.     "The Samsung roadmap was aggressive," said Kevin Krewell, I already knew they were moving fast on EUV, but this also sets a high bar."But, Krewell added, "It's still a ways out and schedules can slip."Last June, IBM and its research alliance partners Samsung and Globalfoundries described the process they had developed for making 5nm GAA transistors based on stacked nanosheets at the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits conference in Kyoto, Japan. Other chipmakers, including Intel and TSMC, are known to be developing their own versions of next-generation transistors beyond FinFET similar to GAA FETs.SEM image of 5nm transistor with gate-all-around technology built by IBM and partners Samsung and Globalfoundries.Source: IBMSamsung reiterated plans to begin using EUV lithography in mass production in the second half of this year with its 7nm Low Power Plus process. Samsung is expected to be the first chipmaker to put EUV — which the industry has been developing for many years — into commercial production. TSMC and Globalfoundries have announced plans to use EUV in commercial production starting in 2019.While lithography tool vendor ASML and leading-edge chip makers have demonstrated the ability to overcome the source-power issue that plagued EUV development for years, the supporting technologies needed to deploy EUV in commercial production are still being developed and fine-tuned.Yongjoo Jeon, a principal engineer with Samsung Foundry, said Tuesday that Samsung will use an internally developed EUV mask inspection tool. This is a significant advantage for Samsung, since no commercial tool has been developed, Jeon added.Jeon said that Samsung will initially deploy EUV without the benefit of a pellicle to protect EUV photomasks from particle contamination, another technology that is still in development. Jeon said Samsung is making progress on developing an EUV pellicle and that he is confident that the company will eventually have one to deploy in its EUV process.Samsung is also still developing EUV photoresist and is on track to be able to achieve the target defect density for mass production later this year, Jeon said.Samsung's process technology roadmap also includes 5nm FinFET production in 2019 and 4nm FinFET production in 2020.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span>, SK to invest W45 tril. in semiconductors
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Samsung, SK to invest W45 tril. in semiconductors

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix plan to invest up to 45 trillion won to enhance their semiconductor manufacturing facilities mostly in Korea, officials directly involved with the matter said Monday.While consumers may know the brands for handsets and TVs, Samsung is the long-time leader in the semiconductor industry. SK hynix is the runner-up.According to major investment banks, semiconductors generated almost half the operating revenue of Samsung Electronics last year. The latest investment means revenue could swell further."The combined investment by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in facilities throughout this year will be 45 trillion won because Samsung is increasing its investment in chip fabrication facilities to 30 trillion won from an earlier 27.3 trillion won," said an official wishing to remain anonymous. That will see SK hynix increase its capital expenditure to 15 trillion won.An SK hynix official said its adjusted 2018 investment is subject to change, according to market conditions. The company, affiliated with SK Group, earlier said it would invest 13 trillion won. The SK unit is actively using high chip prices to lift its position in the industry with the aggressive spending. It is part of a consortium led by U.S.-based fund Bain Capital that agreed to purchase Toshiba's memory chip business, which was recently approved by China.The revised investments by Samsung and SK coincide with the start of mass production at updated local fabrication facilities. Advances in the automotive industry, internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence and biosimilar drugs are expected to drive demand for semiconductors in the coming years. But beyond such looming industry trends, Samsung and SK hynix are taking advantage of the industry paradigm, as a consolidation encourages major suppliers to prioritize profits over market share. Bit growth, a key barometer to gauge the health of the industry, becomes much more limited as shrinking the size of chips becomes increasingly more difficult. Leading investment bank analysts covering semiconductors said memory prices continue to perform better than expected because demand from datacenters continues to surprise, particularly for DRAMs, a memory chip that both Samsung and SK have larger market shares in than NAND-type. DRAM supply tightness is expected to persist in the near term but this constraint will be removed in the second half. "Given factors seen in the market, even if Samsung and SK hynix become more aggressive with their capacity (investment) plans that wouldn't hurt the industry much," said one senior fund manager.Market leader Samsung doesn't expect to outgrow demand due to increasingly difficult tech migration. It earlier said that mobile demand weakness was no worse than "normal seasonality." "Although the risk of DRAM oversupply next year is becoming more of a concern with Samsung Electronics' increasingly aggressive capacity expansion, the situation for 2018 is better than earlier predicted and the market has so far failed to take this into account. Both DRAM and NAND prices are stronger than expected, which bodes well for earnings this year," the manager said.Mainstream NAND contract and spot prices continue to decline, but not as severely as expected. The industry is making efforts to encourage NAND flash content growth in smartphones by offering high-NAND flash content products at lower prices. As the industry also continues its transition to three-dimensional NAND and improves yield, supply is likely to exceed demand and some expect NAND prices to continue to be under pressure.Samsung and SK control more than two thirds of the DRAM market. DRAM chips, along with NAND flash memory, are commonly used in smartphones, PCs and portable game consoles.
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> Opens Foundry R&D Division Under Device Solution Arm
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Samsung Opens Foundry R&D Division Under Device Solution Arm

Samsung Electronics Co. recently opened a research and development (R&D) center for its foundry business, industry sources said Monday, reflecting its drive to advance deeper into the segment.Industry sources said Samsung, which has emerged as one of the major leaders of the global chip industry, is currently seeking to catch up with No. 1 player Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the foundry sector. Samsung is currently the fourth-largest player in the global foundry industry.The foundry business refers to making chip designs for other companies that do not have a semiconductor fabrication plant.According to the sources, Samsung opened the R&D center under the crucial device solution arm, which oversees the company’s critical chip business. The new center is focused on bolstering Samsung’s capabilities in the foundry business, the sources added.The new center adds to Samsung’s existing eight research bodies under the device solution division, namely memory, system LSI, semiconductor, package, LED, production technology, software and display centers.Samsung earlier vowed to become the world’s No. 2 player in the foundry industry this year by posting annual sales of US$10 billion.“Samsung recently launched various efforts to make inroads deeper into the foundry business, also kicking off the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem program earlier this year for foundry-related clients,” an industry watcher said. “It is fostering growth engines by strengthening ties with major clients including Qualcomm.”
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<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span> is in talks to buy chips from China's ZTE, amid US bans
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Samsung is in talks to buy chips from China's ZTE, amid US bans

Jung Yeon-je | AFP | Getty ImagesSamsung is in talks with several smartphone makers including China's ZTE to supply mobile processor chips, a senior executive said, a move that will bring it in more direct competition with larger rival Qualcomm.The South Korean tech giant generates the bulk of its profit from its bread and butter memory chips and has been beefing up development of logic chips such as mobile processors, image sensors and automotive chips to diversify.Its flagship Exynos mobile chips power Samsung's Galaxy line of smartphones, but the chipset has only one external smartphone client — China's Meizu Technology."We are talking to all OEMs," Inyup Kang, head of Samsung's logic chip developer called System LSI, told Reuters in an interview, referring to original equipment manufacturers.Kang, a former Qualcomm executive, said he expects to announce a new client for its Exynos chipsets in the first half of 2019.Its search for new clients for the Exynos chips comes as the United States banned its companies from selling components to China's ZTE for seven years after it violated the terms of a settlement deal for illegally shipping goods made with U.S. parts to Iran and North Korea.That has created urgency for ZTE to diversify its suppliers, analysts said, although attempts to resolve the issue have picked up some pace after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to help ZTE "get back into business, fast."Regardless of U.S.-China trade talks, Kang said Samsung will continue discussions with ZTE.Its efforts like that will put further pressure on the industry leader Qualcomm, which said last month it expects the loss of business with ZTE to lower its profits by 3 cents per share next quarter.Samsung is ranked far behind competitors Qualcomm and Apple in mobile processing chips, but the use of Exynos chips by its own smartphone business helped it become the fastest growing player in the segment, according to research firm Counterpoint.Samsung's System LSI business saw a 27 percent rise in shipments last year, Counterpoint says.Qualcomm also faces competition from Chinese companies such as Huawei Technologies, which uses its own processing chips called HiSilicon in its flagship smartphones.Chips for autosAs the smartphone market slows, Samsung's logic chip division also plans to seek growth in new fields such as fifth-generation mobile network technology (5G) and automotive, Kang said.He said Samsung is in discussion with multiple automobile companies to develop chips for autonomous driving, declining to name the car makers. It said in January that it is providing automaker Audi with Exynos processor chips.System LSI still uses Samsung's foundry for all of its manufacturing needs, but is in talks with other contract manufacturers to diversify production in areas Samsung's foundry isn't prepared for yet, such as high-voltage automotive products, Kang said.TSMC is the world's top contract chip manufacturer, followed by the likes of U.S.-based Global Foundries, Taiwan-based UMC and Samsung.Samsung's semiconductor business, reporting a 2017 operating profit of 35.2 trillion won ($33 billion), contributed more than 65 percent of the whole firm's record annual profit of 53.65 trillion won last year.Out of this semiconductor business, memory chips contributed about 96 percent of the profits as it rode a "boom" cycle, while System LSI and foundry took up the rest with about 1.44 trillion won in 2017 operating profits, according to data from Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities.Kang said his business is expected to see a 5-10 percent revenue growth this year in dollar terms. He declined to provide last year's growth rate.
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Release time：2018-05-16 00:00 reading：1082 Continue reading>>
<span style='color:red'>Samsung</span>'s Chip Sales Leadership May be Fleeting
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Samsung's Chip Sales Leadership May be Fleeting

Samsung Electronics' well-chronicled rise to the top of the heap in semiconductor sales last year, dethroning Intel after a quarter century, may be short lived, analysts say.Samsung's sold $59.9 billion worth of chips in 2017, more than $1 billion more than second place Intel. But with the booming memory market bound to come back down to earth, Samsung could find itself back in the familiar position of playing second fiddle to Intel very soon.Market research firm Gartner said Tuesday (April 24) that the memory market boom that has propelled Samsung — as well as the broader semiconductor industry — to new heights over the past two years could turn sour as soon as late next year. When it does, Samsung's reign as the top chip supplier is more than likely to end, Gartner (Stamford, Conn.) said.Roughly 80 percent of Samsung's 2017 semiconductor sales — including foundry sales — came from memory products, according to Bill McClean, president of IC Insights, another market research firm. McClean estimates that Samsung's lead over Intel last year — including foundry sales for both companies — was roughly $4.1 billion. Even if Samsung's memory sales declined by just 10 percent, the company's lead over Intel would evaporate, McClean said in an email exchange with EE Times.   "The bottom line is, at this point, Samsung's No. 1 ranking would definitely be in question if the memory market encounters a significant downturn," McClean said.Total memory sales surged by some 61.8 percent in 2017, reaching $130 billion, according to Gartner. Samsung's memory revenue alone increased by nearly $20 billion last year, Gartner estimated.Memory market growth overshadowed strong growth in other chip categories in 2017, according to Gartner. Sales of non-memory chips increased by by 9.3 percent — or $24.8 billion — to reach $290 billion, according to the firm.Gartner estimates that the combined revenue of the top 10 semiconductor vendors increased by 30.6 percent during 2017 and accounted for 58 percent of the total market, outperforming milder 11 percent growth by the rest of the market
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