In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...
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Memory Chip Makers Struggle With Declines in Demand, Price
Listen to article (2 minutes) The pandemic boom in memory chips is on pause. A decline in prices in recent months has led the biggest memory players—including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology...
Samsung says personal data of some U.S. customers exposed in breach
Samsung Electronics Co. is warning some U.S. customers that their personal data was exposed in a recent breach. Samsung announced the breach in a brief statement late Friday, as Americans were about t...
Taiwan Semiconductor Stock Will Benefit From Spending Spree
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is hedging its geographical bets, with large new fabs planned for the U.S. and Japan. Here: a TSMC chip at a 2020 semiconductor conference in China. Str/AFP/Getty Im...
Roku Stock Is Heading For Its Biggest Drop Ever. Analyst Calls Earnings Awful.
Text size Roku reported revenue of $764.4 million in the latest quarter. Wall Street was expecting $804 million. Dreamstime Roku stock cratered after the video-streaming company’s earnings fell far sh...
Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...
Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?
Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...
Micron’s recovery from ‘worst memory downturn in 13 years’ will take time, analyst says
Micron Technology Inc.’s results and outlook show the memory-chip market is probably at its worst downturn in 13 years and analysts expect the bounce back may take a while. Late Wednesday, Micron MU, ...