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Samsung Electronics is preparing a share buyback worth about 90 trillion won, one of the largest repurchase programmes a South Korean company has attempted, the Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified industry sources. The figure works out to $58.61bn at the won’s current level, and the news sent Samsung shares up more than 6% […]
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Samsung plans a 90 trillion won buyback to fund a chip-worker bonus Read More »
A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next phase of large-scale investment in chip manufacturing, a presidential adviser said […]
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South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster Read More »
The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could spread into broader wage increases and add upward […]
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Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gained 4.5 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 topped 69,000 for the first time in history. The […]
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Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most Read More »
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book6 Edge, the first laptop to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite processor. The chip delivers 80 trillion operations per second from its neural processing unit, double the 45 TOPS that defined the first generation of Copilot+ PCs. It is also the thinnest Galaxy Book Samsung has ever made, at […]
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Samsung’s $2,100 Galaxy Book6 Edge ships with 16GB of RAM in 2026 Read More »
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Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base stations to double as environmental sensors. The agreement was signed at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, with Samsung Research, the advanced R&D division within […]
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Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G Read More »
Samsung’s 10.5%-of-profit bonus formula is only the second written profit-share agreement at a major Korean firm. Kakao’s union is already asking for more. Samsung Electronics’ unionised workforce voted in favour of the government-mediated pay agreement on Wednesday, formally closing the deal that narrowly survived an injunction filing from a smaller non-chip union on Tuesday. The vote […]
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The Samsung pay deal is the moment Korean unions changed register Read More »
Samsung Electronics will invest 39 trillion dong, or about $1.5bn, in a semiconductor testing plant in Vietnam, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Construction has already begun in an industrial park 60 kilometres north of Hanoi, with operations scheduled to start in November 2027. The plant will be Samsung’s first dedicated chip-testing […]
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Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table Read More »