Samsung Electronics News Latest Samsung Electronics news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational and one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, operating both the leading high-bandwidth memory (HBM) business and Samsung Foundry, a contract chipmaker offering processes down to 2 nanometers. T...
ASUS Widens AI Infrastructure Push From Cloud To Industrial Edge — Sep 6, 2026 — At ASUS AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, ASUS unveiled Intel Xeon 6 and AMD EPYC 9006 servers alongside a new rugged Industrial Edge Server, in partnership with...Semicon Taiwan 2026 Opens With Silicon Photonics And Co-Packaged Optics In The Spotlight — Sep 3, 2026 — SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off international forums August 31 in Taipei and opened its main exhibition September 2 at TaiNEX, drawing more than 100,00...LG Taps Samsung Foundry, Bypasses TSMC For AI Home Chips With CoAsia SEMI — Sep 1, 2026 — South Korea's K-On-Device AI program routed LG Electronics into Samsung Foundry for two always-on AI IoT SoCs designed by CoAsia SEMI, sidelining TSMC...NVIDIA Weighs Fresh Perplexity Investment at $30B+ Valuation — Aug 29, 2026 — The Information reports NVIDIA is discussing a new equity check into Perplexity AI at a valuation topping $30 billion, more than 50% above the answer...YMTC Hits No.3 In Global NAND Bit Shipments On 267-Layer Xtacking 4.0 Ramp — Aug 28, 2026 — China's YMTC has moved into third place globally in NAND bit shipments with a 14% Q2 2026 share, powered by 267-layer Xtacking 4.0 3D NAND, even as it...Vietnam Pushes Qualcomm, Samsung To Expand AI, Chip And Robotics Investment — Aug 28, 2026 — Vietnamese President To Lam met the CEOs of Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics to press both companies to deepen AI, semiconductor, robotics and data-ce...Samsung Kicks Off Early Prep For Second Taylor Foundry Fab In Texas — Aug 27, 2026 — Samsung Electronics has asked equipment suppliers to complete SEMI safety certification for a second foundry fab in Taylor, Texas months before ground...Japan Earmarks Another $944M For Rapidus To Race TSMC In 2nm — Aug 25, 2026 — Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to inject a further ¥150 billion — roughly $944 million — into Rapidus in its fiscal 2027 budget...Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm ASIC And Seven-Supplier Stack Behind Its Ojai Robotaxi — Aug 25, 2026 — Alphabet's Waymo has opened up the boot of its robotaxi, publishing the architecture of its onboard computer, a purpose-built 5-nanometer ASIC that pu...Samsung And Broadcom Ink $200B MOU To Power AI Silicon Through 2030 — Aug 25, 2026 — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom expanded their multi-year collaboration to more than $200B across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging, positio...Samsung Plans Record $72B+ Shareholder Return As HBM Boom Refills Coffers — Aug 24, 2026 — Samsung Electronics will hand back over 100 trillion won to shareholders, funded by AI-fueled HBM and foundry profits, ahead of a late-August board vo...Samsung Foundry Hikes 4nm and 5nm Prices Up To 15% As AI Demand Fills Its Lines — Aug 19, 2026 — Samsung is raising prices on advanced chipmaking by up to 15% as customers cut off from TSMC's booked-out AI capacity turn to Pyeongtaek's SF4 line.Samsung SDI Commits 25 Trillion Won To Ulsan, Cheonan Solid-State Battery Push — Aug 17, 2026 — Samsung SDI has unveiled a 25 trillion won ($17 billion) investment plan for its Ulsan and Cheonan sites through 2040, targeting mass production of su...Samsung Fast-Tracks In-House Humanoid As Roh Personally Reviews Prototype — Aug 17, 2026 — Samsung Electronics is racing to commercialize an in-house humanoid robot after co-CEO Roh Tae-moon personally reviewed a working prototype and top-ti...South Korea Rolls Out $3.5B Chip Fund To Back Materials, Fabless Firms — Aug 11, 2026 — Seoul will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52B) fund targeting chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, plus 5 trillion won in trade financ...Korean Quadrupeds Join Combat Drills As Rainbow, Lion And Ghost Race For The Battlefield — Aug 9, 2026 — South Korea's Rainbow Robotics, Lion Robotics and LIG Nex1's Ghost Robotics are training four-legged robots alongside tanks and Marines as Seoul races...Samsung Unveils zHBM Concept Claiming 8x HBM5 Speed — Aug 7, 2026 — Samsung showcased zHBM, zNAND-O and 400-layer V10 BV-NAND at FMS 2026, arguing 3D memory stacked directly on AI accelerators can deliver 8x HBM5 perfo...Anthropic Builds In-House Silicon Team to Co-Design Chips for Claude — Aug 6, 2026 — Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is hiring a custom silicon team to co-design AI chips and models for Claude, joining OpenAI, Google and...Samsung Q2 2026 Sets Records: KRW 89.5T Operating Profit On HBM4 And Server Memory — Jul 31, 2026 — Samsung Electronics posted KRW 171.5 trillion in revenue and a record KRW 89.5 trillion in operating profit for Q2 2026, up 56% QoQ, as AI server memo...Samsung And Broadcom Sign $200B Chip Pact For AI Memory And 2nm Foundry Through 2030 — Jul 30, 2026 — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed an MOU at San Francisco's AI Summit to jointly deliver HBM memory and 2nm foundry capacity for AI infrastructu...