The Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service that is part of the labor ministry claimed an ex-Samsung employee got cancer due to her employment at the company’s chip plant. The employee, whose last name is identified as Kim worked in Samsung’s semiconductor factory and was diagnosed with breast cancer. The ministry found a “considerable […]
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Samsung promotes semiconductor and LCD head
Samsung confirmed today that they’ve promoted Kwon Oh-hyun, President of Samsung Semiconductor and Display division to Vice Chairman in their annual year-end management reshuffle. Early this year, Samsung had merged its semiconductor and LCD panel division into one in order to offset the losses faced by the display division and Kwon managed to strengthen […]
Samsung and IBM team up to research new semiconductor technology
Samsung has collaborated with IBM to research on semiconductor technologies. Under this new collaboration, both the companies will research new materials, transistor structures etc. to enable next-generation process technology that will be used in variety of devices like smartphones to high-end communications infrastructure. The researchers will work at the Semiconductor Research Alliance at the […]
Samsung initiates independent health review of its semiconductor plants
Samsung has announced to commission an independent health and safety review of all its semiconductor factories. This decision comes after the accusation that Samsung’s semiconductor plants use radioactive elements and is responsible for fewemployees diagnosing with blood cancer. The review commission will be carried out for a year and will have full access to […]
Samsung will help in reinvestigating cancer claims
As Samsung had promised, they showed off their semiconductor plant to journalists and confirmed that their plant is free from any chemicals and radioactive elements that can cause cancer among its employees. “There is no risk,” said Cho Soo-in, president of Samsung’s memory chip division when asked about the working conditions. However, Samsung has […]