Historic deal with ASML to help Samsung gain advantage in 2nm chips

A few weeks ago, Samsung Electronics boss Lee Jae-yong embarked on a business trip to the Netherlands to make important business deals with semiconductor chip equipment maker ASML. He joined the South Korean president on a 4-day official trip after the Dutch King Willem-Alexander invited them to the Netherlands to discuss several chip deals. Samsung […]

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Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case

“I know that climate change is a global issue, but Montana needs to take responsibility for our part,” 22-year-old Rikki Held, the lead plaintiff, testified. “You can’t just blow it off and do nothing about it.” Seeley agreed. “Every additional ton of greenhouse gas emissions exacerbates Plaintiffs’ injuries and risks locking in irreversible climate injuries,” […]

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Samsung to buy OLED TV panels from LG in a historic deal

After nearly a decade, Samsung launched its first OLED TV in early 2022. A year later, it unveiled its second-generation QD-OLED TV during CES 2023. However, the company can’t get enough QD-OLED panels from Samsung Display, so it will buy the remaining OLED panels from LG Display. According to an exclusive report from Reuters, Samsung […]

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Samsung hopes better 3nm yields can stop another historic profit decline

Samsung is in tough competition with TSMC for chip manufacturing orders on the advanced 3nm process. Its the company’s first semiconductor foundry node that utilizes the GAA-FET technology. Samsung had previously been relying on FinFET-based nodes for over a decade. The company said during an earnings call that its wafer yields are in the range […]

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Samsung might soon strike historic deal with LG for OLED TVs

Samsung released its first OLED TV in nearly a decade last year, using a QD-OLED panel made by Samsung Display. However, the company also seems interested in making TVs using LG’s WRGB OLED panels. After holding talks with LG for a few months last year, the deal went on a back burner. However, it seems […]

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Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time

Over the past eight years, a modified Boeing 747 jetliner has flown hundreds of flights on a unique mission: carrying a 19-ton, 2.5-meter telescope known as Sofia, or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Flying a telescope on a jumbo jet offered a way to peer into the heavens at wavelengths that could not be […]

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Samsung boss visits Panama to leverage historic ties for Expo 2030 bid

South Korea’s port city of Busan is among the several other venues hoping to win the bid to host the World Expo 2030. As the leader of the country’s biggest conglomerate, Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong is undertaking visits to several countries in order to win support for Busan’s bid. Lee Jae-yong has most recently visited […]

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