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...
TSMC Sets 3-6% Wafer Price Hike For 2027 As AI Orders Face 21% Bill — Sep 25, 2026 — TSMC has told customers wafer-out prices will rise 3-6% from January 2027, with an additional 10-15% HPC surcharge on AI overflow orders that could pu...EUCLYD lands $231M Series A to build European AI silicon — Sep 16, 2026 — The Eindhoven startup, chaired by former ASML CEO Peter Wennink, raised more than €200M from Samsung and European backers to scale its Craftwerk AI-ch...Mistral Locks In €3B Samsung-Led Series D at €21B, Europe's Biggest-Ever Tech Round — Sep 10, 2026 — Paris-based Mistral AI closed a €3 billion (~$3.5B) Series D at a €21B post-money valuation on September 8, 2026 — the largest equity fundraising ever...Anthropic Locks In 14.8 GW And $517B Of Compute As IPO Race With OpenAI Heats Up — Sep 9, 2026 — Anthropic has signed $517B of compute contracts for 14.8 GW of AI capacity in 11 months, with an 11 GW deal from Amazon and Google alone worth more th...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...