Samsung to invest 24 billion dollars in semiconductor production
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Seoul (dpa) - South Korean electronics giant Samsung said Monday it plans to invest 25 trillion won (24 billion dollars) in the production of semiconductors over the next six years.
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Samsung&#39;s net income rose to US$2.34 billion from $1.60 billion last year. Sales gained 27.4 percent to $12.9 billion from $9.
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Korean chipmaker Samsung says it will invest 25 trillion won building new chip production lines over the next six years.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - South Korean DRAM maker Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., said Thursday (Oct. 28) that it &quot;played an integral role in the development and manufacturing&quot; of the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), announced by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Corp and Japan's Elpida Memory Inc have announced a $1.23 billion dollar joint venture with plans to invest almost 14 billion dollars over five years.
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Infineon Technologies AG, Europe&#39;s second-largest maker of semiconductors, plans to invest about $1 billion in a new factory in Malaysia to expand its automotive chip business and be closer to customers in the region.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics showed off its first 40-nanometer chip, a 32Gb NAND flash memory that can be used in memory cards able to store up to 64GB of data, or 40 movies. The latest step into smaller chip manufacturing methods brings Samsung to the forefront of chip production putting it ahead of other bit manufacturers, including Intel, which has onlyÂ announced chips built at 45nm. The chips are also the seventh generation of NAND flash memory to follow in a Moore's law-type theory posited by Samsung, that the company will double the capacity of NAND flash every 12 months. Such advances are vitalÂ to the consumer electronics industry. Users are demanding ever smaller devices that can do more, such as handsets with built-in mobile phone, computing, camera, and digital music playing functions. Demand for more storage to keep photos, videos, songs and other data has expanded rapidly over the past few years, and analysts expect the trend to continue. The 40nm chip production technique is key to making chips smaller, faster, more powerful, and cheaper to produce. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, and the measurement is a guide to the size of the transistors and other parts that are etched onto the chips. Typically, the more transistors, and the closer they are together, the faster the chip can perform tasks. The company also revealed a new design technique, Charge Trap Flash (CTF), that will allow it to eventually shrink NAND chip features to 20nm, and produce 256Gb chips. In the 32Gb chips, the control gate in the CTF is only a fifth as big as conventional control gates on chips in a typical floating gate structure. With CTF, there is no floating gate. Instead, data is temporarily placed in a holding chamber made of silicon nitride. Samsung also released a new chip for its hybrid drives, a kind of hard disk drive aimed at laptops that uses NAND flash as a disk cache, to speed boot-up times and reduce power consumption The new chip, dubbed an SoC (system-on-chip) because it does the work of several chips, incorporates up to 4GB of NAND flash as a data buffer and helps further speeds boot-up times while lengthening battery life, the company said. The chips will be in mass production in November. Samsung is one of several companies working on hybrid drives. Seagate TechnologyÂ and IntelÂ are also developing the technology for notebook computers.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced  semiconductor technology solutions, yesterday shared stunning prospects  for a new industry-fusing technology era that will offer tremendous  global opportunities for expanded use of three-dimensional (3D)  silicon-based technologies.
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Samsung Electronics expects profit from mobile devices to pick up next year, despite a rating cut issued by an investment bank. During a presentation at the UBS investor conference in Seoul, Samsung
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Hyundai Motor Co. , South Korea's top auto maker, said on Tuesday it plans to invest $270 million to build an engine plant at its U.S. car making unit in Alabama to serve growing demand in the world's No.1 auto market.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ,  the world's biggest maker of memory chips, said on Monday it  would invest 938.8 billion won ($1.01 billion) to upgrade its  memory chip production lines.
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Samsung Electronics Co. announced Monday that it was beginning full-scale investment to build a second production line for seventh-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs) at its complex in Tangjeong, South Chungcheong Province from early next year.
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SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co. yesterday offered a bullish outlook on the global semiconductor industry, with a top executive predicting increased demand for chips used in both digital devices and personal computers.
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Samsung Electronics, the world&#39;s second largest computer chip manufacturer, yesterday said that it would invest Won25,000bn ($24bn) in its semiconductor business by 2010 to generate
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Samsung Electronics may process 2,000Ã2,300mm glass substrates at a second seventh-generation (7G) line in the beginning of 2006, according to the South Korea-based Electronic Times, Seoul.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics has said it has developed a chip with enough capacity to store 36,000 high-resolution photographs or 40 movie files.
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SEOUL (XFN-ASIA) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said that its US unit Samsung Semiconductor Inc has decided to allot 100 mln usd as provision against possible losses that may arise from the US government&#39;s anti-trust investigation into the company.