Samsung Says It Will Expand Chip Factories
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The Samsung Electronics Company, the Korean electronics giant, said Monday that it would invest $23.7 billion in new chip production lines over the next six years.
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Samsung president Hwang Chang-gyu, who is in charge of the firmâs semiconductor business, held a press conference Monday at the Shilla Hotel to reveal new semiconductor technology.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a smart card IC (integrated circuit) chip that the company claims contains a larger amount of erasable and programmable memory than those of competitors, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
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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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SEOUL: South Korea&#39;s Samsung Electronics claimed breakthroughs in key technologies that promise greater data storage and faster processing for computers and mobile devices such as MP3 audio players.
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Samsung Group aims to achieve cumulative sales of 200 trillion won in its semiconductor business by investing an additional 25 trillion won from 2005 to 2010.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung ElectronicsÂ opened a $3.5 billion memory chip factory in Austin Thursday, the biggest such plant in Texas. The world's largest memory chip maker will produce NAND flash memory, which is used to store data in a wide range of products, from digital cameras to iPods, at the facility. Production at the factory will start in the second half of this year, and the first product to be made there will be 16Gb NAND flash chips, using a 50-nanometer production process. Such new factories ensure plentiful supply for the memory chip industry, which is important for keeping prices down for users as more and more people buy consumer electronics that let them capture, share and store pictures, songs and other data. The new chip facility covers the area of nine football fields, and will reach an output of 60,000 wafers per month by 2008. Hundreds of memory chips can be made on one silicon wafer. It will be among the most advanced memory chip plants in the U.S. when it starts churning out 50-nanometer chips later this year. There are about three to six atoms in a nanometer, depending on the type of atom, and it describes the smallest size of features on a chip. Currently, 65-nanometers is considered cutting edge, though Intel makes some products using 45-nanometer technology. Samsung has hired 1,600 employees for the factory. Samsung Electronics currently operates 15 semiconductor production lines globally, including two factories in Texas.
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Samsung unveiled a new mobile chip set with up to 4GB of storage capacity, potentially eliminating the need for add-on memory cards.
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US-based chipmaker Texas Instruments Inc. said it will spend about US$300 million (euro 240 million) over the next three years to increase output at its facilities in the northern Philippines.
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Samsung Electronics announced Monday that it has developed an 8GB NAND-type flash memory chip with a 60-nano design rule, paving the way for 16GB flash disks.
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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, announced better-than-expected results for 2004 and a positive outlook for 2005, in a boost to the struggling global IT sector.
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InfoWorld - Texas Instruments, the world&#39;s largest maker of mobile phone chips, plans to work more closely with its Asian contract chip manufacturing partners to develop new production technologies, a company spokeswoman confirmed.
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (OTC: SSNGY) said it was expanding operations with plans to build a $286 billion Won LCD production line.
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Intel already operates assembly and test plants in China, but it could be ready to start actually making chips there.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to invest 25 trillion won (US$24 billion) in building new semiconductor production lines by 2010, the company said Monday.
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Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest memory chip manufacturer, has named a new official to take charge of the memory chip division of its semiconductor business.
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Swedish telecoms equipment maker  Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on  applications for mobile computers that will increase their  attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday.