Seoul, Jan 26 (IANS) Samsung Electronics said on Monday it plans to provide treasury shares worth 175.2 billion won ($120 million) to its executives under its excess profit incentive (OPI) system.The South Korean tech giant said in a regulatory filing that it will distribute a total of 1.15 million treasury shares to 1,051 executives under the incentive program, without selling the shares on the market.Under Samsung Electronics’ OPI system, employees can receive up to 50 percent of their annual …
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New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) India has started a new semiconductor industry and that lithography, which involves printing the circuit on the wafer, is the most complex and precision-intensive process in the entire semiconductor manufacturing chain, according to the government.Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that Dutch multinational company ASML is the world’s leading provider of lithographic tools and added that ASML enables practically every chip manufactured in the world.“Our fab in Dhole…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) As India’s semiconductor industry scales up, its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to generate $1.7 trillion in economic value by 2035 and reshape industries across the economy, a new report has said.A KPMG report, launched at the World Economic Forum 2026 in Davos, said that India’s responsible AI scaling gained support from robust data governance frameworks, sectoral adoption in healthcare, agriculture, education, and defence, and the creation o…
Seoul, Jan 22 (IANS) The South Korean economy expanded 1 per cent last year, driven by robust exports, but posted negative on-quarter growth in the fourth quarter amid a slump in the construction sector, central bank data showed on Thursday.The country’s real gross domestic product (GDP) — a key measure of economic growth — for 2025 matched the Bank of Korea’s (BOK) earlier forecast, though the growth rate slowed from a 2 per cent expansion in the previous year, according to the preliminary da…
Ahmedabad, Jan 14 (IANS) Infineon Technologies on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology to strengthen semiconductor skills and workforce development in India, marking a major step in building the country’s chip ecosystem.The agreement was announced in Ahmedabad on January 14, 2026, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.The MoU was signed between Infineon Technologies AG…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The global semiconductor revenue reached $793 billion globally in 2025, marking an increase of 21 per cent year‑on‑year, a report said on Tuesday.The report from tech research company Gartner said that AI semiconductors — including processors, high‑bandwidth memory and networking components — drove the growth and accounted for nearly one‑third of total sales in 2025.“This domination is set to rise as AI infrastructure spending is forecast to surpass $1.3 tr…
Seoul, Jan 13 (IANS) Around 40 per cent of South Korean manufacturers expect economic conditions to deteriorate this year amid increased volatility in the foreign exchange (FX) market, a poll showed on Tuesday.According to the poll conducted recently by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on 2,208 manufacturing firms, a total of 40.1 percent of respondents said they expect a deterioration in economic conditions, reports Yonhap news agency.In detail, 14.7 per cent of respondents poi…
Seoul, Dec 26 (IANS) With global economic uncertainties widely expected to continue weighing down Asia’s fourth-largest economy in 2026, South Korea will seek to weather the challenges by leveraging its semiconductor industry amid the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom, experts said on Friday.The South Korean economy faced significant jitters earlier this year after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a series of protectionism measures, including tariffs targeting long-standing economic …