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[Korean]

Samsung takes Q2 smartphone lead - Taipei Times

Samsung takes Q2 smartphone lead

Staff writer, with CNA

Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s biggest vendor of mobile phones, repeated its first-quarter feat of leading Taiwan’s smartphone market in the second quarter, trailed by HTC Corp (宏達&#38651, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported yesterday, citing data collected from sales channels.
Samsung grew 7.4 percent from 28.4 percent in the first quarter to account for 35.8 percent of the 1.35 million units of smartphones sold in the second quarter, while HTC grew 3.7 percent to 28.1 percent from the first quarter, the report said.
Apple Inc’s local market share dropped from 24.3 percent in the first quarter to 10.7 percent in the second quarter, the report showed.

On a monthly basis, Samsung took a 41.5 percent market share last month, followed by HTC’s 23.8 percent and Apple’s 7.1 percent.
South Korean firm Samsung accounted for three of the five best-selling smartphones in the nation in the second quarter and the Galaxy 3 sold 67,000 units after its launch last month, breaking the record for the most units of a single Android smartphone sold in the market in one month, Andy Tu (杜偉&#26161, general manager of Samsung Electronics Taiwan Co’s mobile communications team, said in the report.
Meanwhile, about 70 percent of Taiwanese polled in a recent survey said they had bought products just because they were made in South Korea, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said on Thursday.
In a joint survey by the Taipei offices of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency and the Korea Tourism Organization of 339 Taiwanese, 69 percent of respondents said they had bought products simply because the country of origin was listed on the tag as South Korea, the news agency reported.
The most popular goods included clothing and accessories, followed by cosmetics, information and communication goods, food and stationery.

So "Made In Korea" is replacing "Made In Japan" in Taiwan of all places.

 

[Chineselover]

" Made in Japan " is the best , Korean stuff is good and better than " Made in Taiwan ". Made in China is ****

 

[Wright]

Samsung also supplies apple, and possibly HTC.

 

[Backbencher]

Korea is best known for its samsung products .
I love your S 3 .
U guys are rocking the world and this news comes as no surprise

 

[Tshering22]

Samsung is really pushing it through in the area of smartphones. At one time LG and Samsung were equal in terms of offerings but Samsung has really torn the competition apart.

HTC is pretty good too but guess Samsung raced it ahead.

Apple is boring.. its like being tied with a golden chain.

 

[Abhishek_]

Samsung takes Q2 smartphone lead - Taipei Times


So "Made In Korea" is replacing "Made In Japan" in Taiwan of all places.

well deserved. congrats

 

[LightningAK]

the propaganda of the korea, is so deligent.
in their eyes,all about korea are the best,but can you explain to me why does the korea have big trade deficit with Japan?

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

small country with fool people

 

[Korean]

HTC adjusts workforce

HTC adjusts workforce

HTC has been adjusting human resources in its production, R&D, and sales teams. Industry sources believe corporate restructuring is necessary as HTC's sales have been declining.

Sales of the HTC One series have not been picking up due to tough competition in Europe and North America. HTC has been adjusting its global workforce by shutting down the R&D team in North Carolina, US, and offices in Brazil. Some members of the R&D team have been laid-off and there will be no renewals of contracts for 600 workers. The adjustments have impacted close to 1,000 staff.

HTC is laying off 1,000 workers in engineering and marketing, more to come if things don't turnaround soon.

 

[cirr]

Samsung’s Growing Dependence on China for Semiconductor and Display Panel Business

May 9, 2014 by Korea Bizwire in Computer & Software, Editor's Choice, Technology


Samsung Electronics announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. (image: Samsung Tomorrow/flickr)

SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics is eyeing China for its semiconductor production and display panel supplies in searching of low cost advantage.

On May 9, the world’s No. 1 memory chip maker announced that it began full-scale semiconductor manufacturing operations in China’s Xi’an fab. The new facility will manufacture Samsung’s advanced NAND flash memory chips, or 3D V-NAND.

By commencing operations of its Xi’an fabrication line, Samsung has secured a solid memory production base in China, a market where approximately 50 percent of global NAND flash is generated by production bases operated by many IT companies in China. It is also laying the foundation for a more stable supply of memory products to its customers.

Samsung plans to complete construction of its entire Xi’an complex, which includes an assembly facility and test line, by the end of this year. An official at Samsung said, “The production yield of Xi’an factory rose to a similar level of Korean fabrication lines, faster than our expectations. Although it seems to be the results of deploying many Korean technical staff, it is a meaningful achievement as it is made of Xi’an’s electricity and water.”

“Most of all, the quality of electricity and water, core parts of semiconductor production, is good in Xi’an. Selecting Xi’an as semiconductor manufacturing base was an excellent choice for us,” the official added.

The construction of the production line in China is seemed to reduce production cost in a situation where it makes more than 80 percent of revenue from overseas. Samsung can also save transportation cost if it produces overseas.

Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics is rapidly increasing purchase of display panels from BOE, China’s biggest display panel manufacturer. Market watchers attribute the increase to Samsung’s expanded production of low-end smartphones.

According to market research firm DisplaySearch, Samsung purchased 147 million liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for smartphones from BOE in 2013. It was a 52.8-percent rise over the previous year. As Samsung bought 30.7 percent of smartphone display panels from BOE, three out of 10 Samsung smartphones are equipped with BOE’s display panels.

Most of the BOE displays are used in low-end phones as Samsung’s premium and mid-market smartphone models adopt organic light emitting diodes (OLED) panels. As Samsung is placing an emphasis on the production of low-cost phones, its demand for the low-cost LCD panels from China, especially from BOE, will continuously increase.

Written by John Choi (johnchoi@koreabizwire.com)

Samsung's Growing Dependence on China for Semiconductor and Display Panel Business | Be Korea-savvy

 

[cirr]

Yonhap News Agency May 9, 2014 4:32pm

Samsung says 'open to' more chip lines in China

XIAN, China, May 9 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest chipmaker, signaled Friday that it could invest an additional US$3 billion to boost chip production lines at its new plant here, saying it is "open to more investment" in China.

Kim Ki-nam, head of Samsung's memory chip business division, made the remarks at a meeting with a group of South Korean correspondents as Samsung began mass producing a faster and higher-capacity version of flash memory chips at its $7 billion plant in Xian.

Asked about market speculation that Samsung may increase its investment to $10 billion in the Xian plant, Kim replied, "We are open to more investment."

"The Chinese market accounts for about 50 percent of global demand for NAND memory chips. So, we are actively considering investing more in China," Kim said.

"The timing of an additional investment in the Xian plant will depend on market situations," Kim said.

During a press conference with Chinese reporters, Kim also expressed his hope to build more chip plants in China, saying global demand for NAND memory chips is growing faster than expected.

"We hope to build the second and third semiconductor plants in China," Kim said.

Samsung started building the chip complex in Xian, an industrial city in northwestern China, in 2012 to produce NAND chips using a 10-nanometer process technology.

The new plant in Xian, Samsung's second overseas chip plant after the one in the United States, is producing 100,000 12-inch wafers per month, Samsung officials said.

The mass production at Samsung's new chip plant comes as it seeks to diversify its clients in China.

A Samsung executive said the new chip plant in Xian employs some 1,500 Chinese workers.

The plant also represents the single biggest investment in China by a South Korean firm.

Xian, an ancient capital with more than 3,000 years of history, is a base for China's push to develop western parts of the country and has great potential for economic cooperation as the city could serve as a foothold for South Korean firms trying to expand into Central Asia and Europe.

In his congratulatory remarks during a ceremony to mark the completion of the Xian plant, Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-hyun said he hopes the plant becomes a "starting point of the 21st-century Silk Road" linking Asia and Europe.

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Samsung says 'open to' more chip lines in China | GlobalPost

 

[Viet]

Thank you Korea

By M Rochan
November 10, 2014 06:59 GMT

Shares in South Korea's Samsung Electronics jumped on 10 November on news that the firm proposes to pump $3bn in a second smartphone factory in northern Vietnam. The tech major's stock finished 5.14% higher in Seoul on news that it has applied for a licence to build the factory.

Samsung Electronics Vietnam plans to build the factory in the Thai Nguyen province, where it opened a $2bn (£1.3bn, €1.6bn) smartphone plant in March, an unnamed official at the province's Planning and Investment Department told Reuters.

The facility will further help Samsung reduce costs and better compete with low-priced smartphones sold by its Chinese rivals.

Vietnams Dau Tu newspaper was the first to report Samsung's move. The report said the decision to invest in a second factory will bring Samsung's total investment pledges in Vietnam this year to about $11bn.

Pursued by the news agency, officials at Samsung Electronics inVietnam and South Korea refused to comment. "We are working on the project. There are still a few things to fix," said the official, confirming the report by Dau Tu, which is controlled by Vietnam's Planning and Investment Ministry.

Samsung's first smartphone plant in Vietnam generated $1.9bn in export revenue in its first four months of operation, according to theThai Nguyen provincial government. Earlier in the month, the government said the company's totalrevenue could jump over 67% to $13.4bn in 2015 from the $8bn projected for 2014.

In January-October this year, Vietnam's export revenue from mobile phones and accessories hit $19.2bn, or around 15% of the country's total.

Mobile phones and accessories were Vietnam's biggest cash earners in 2014, overtaking textiles.

Samsung to Build $3bn Smartphone Plant in Vietnam

 

[BoQ77]

Currently, in order to pickup 38,000 of their Staff to Samsung Complex Bac Ninh ( Vietnam), their buses must travel the distance of 40,000 kilometers a day.

The complex has the output of 11 million products per month.

The new Thai Nguyen facility, which would be in the same complex, will increase Samsung’s total investment in Vietnam to $11.2 billion

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Smartphone assembly plant using Vietnamese manual labor and imported materials. Profits go back to South Korea.

 

[William Hung]

we just cut off their components supply, viets will cry again.

1/3 of vietnam's gdp comes from stolen oil in SCS. As oil price plummet, viets now are crying already nation-wide.

When the TPP come into force, VietNam will no longer depend on components imported from China.

Currently under international law, the UNCLOS that both VietNam and China are both signatories to, the territory that VietNam is drilling it's oil is not regarded as stolen territory.

If China want UNCLOS to recognise it as stolen Chinese territory, China must first file a dispute to the UNCLOS and win it's case.

hehehehe