Samsung Electronics

Apple leads smartphone market even as overall shipments decline: Counterpoint

The decline is primarily driven by memory players prioritising AI data centres over consumer electronics

South Korea has steep inheritance taxes on controlling shareholders of firms, delivering a financial hit to many of the nation’s richest families.

Samsung family member is said to sell up to 3.1 trillion won in shares

The seller is also conducting a sale of 206,633 preferred shares, according to the terms

The company is considering lengthening contracts from the current quarterly or annual agreements to as much as three to five years, co-CEO Jun Young-hyun says.

Samsung weighs multi-year deals to ease memory chip crunch fears

The company, SK Hynix and Micron Technology together dominate the supply of memory chips globally

Samsung introduced Galaxy Z TriFold late last year as a showcase of its engineering prowess.

Samsung to stop selling US$2,899 TriFold phone after three months

The Korean company will begin by halting sales in its home market

Samsung is looking to price its HBM4 at around US$700 per unit, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

Samsung shares rise to record after report on higher chip price

After initially falling behind smaller SK Hynix in the early days of the AI race, the company has been mounting a comeback

Samsung said it planned to deliver samples for next-generation HBM4E chips in the second half of this year.

Samsung ships latest HBM4 chips to catch-up in AI race

The global rush to build AI data centres has fuelled demand for such chips

The company’s chip efforts date back to at least 2022, when it began hiring chip-related staff in earnest.

ByteDance developing AI chip, in manufacturing talks with Samsung: sources

Global tech giants have developed their own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia

Samsung has also been working to expand the capabilities of its Galaxy AI software and offer customers more choice.

Samsung to unveil AI-charged Galaxy S26 smartphones on Feb 25

The company currently leans on Google Gemini for many of its AI-powered features

Samsung and SK Hynix have each gained more than 39% in 2026.

Samsung, SK Hynix exceeds value of Chinese duo as AI boom shifts

AI investment frenzy has shifted towards infrastructure, benefiting the Korean chipmakers