Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it will run a 3-day free trial program in South Korea for its foldable smartphones.The Galaxy To Go service will lend Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Galaxy Z Flip 5G to consumers.The program will run until April 30. Consumers can request the service and rent the devices

Neontech was the exclusive supplier of cutting equipment for multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) to Samsung Electro-Mechanics new factory in Tianjin, China, TheElec has learned.The factory began trial production in September last year. Samsung’s potential additional investment to expand the factory

Nordic Semiconductor will expand into the cellular Internet of Things (IoT) market of South Korea this year, a company executive said.Nordic has focused on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) so far. But starting this year, it will supply long-distance wireless technology, Sean Choi, the company’s regional s

SK Innovation has become one of the top ten electric vehicle battery suppliers in China after its local joint venture began operating a year ago.The company supplied 0.13GWh of battery for local electric cars in January, ranking eighth, according to data from China Automobile Power Battery Industry

Samsung Electronics’ subsidiary Harman has acquired a Silicon Valley-based automotive technology company.Savari has technology on 5G edge and vehicle-to-everything communications (V2X), Harman said.The company offers V2X sensor solutions and edge-based analytics for automotive and smart infrastructu

Samsung Electronics has secured stakes in a South Korean company that manufacturers pellicles used in semiconductor production.FST said on Tuesday that it has issued 1.52 million shares for Samsung to purchase. The Korean tech giant will secure a 6.9% stake in the company, becoming the third largest

LG Electronics said on Monday that it will begin global launches of its 2021-model OLED TVs.The TVs will come in six series with 18 models in total. Eleven models launching in South Korea will be over 70-inch in size.The six series are G, C, B, A, R and Z series.G series is what LG calls OLED Galler

SK Innovation had asked the White House to overturn a ruling by the US federal trade commission last month, according to The Wall Street Journal.The South Korean battery maker told the Biden administration that the International Trade Commission’s 10-year import ban on it would cause it to abandon i

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it was supplying its 10x optical zoom folded camera module to a global smartphone manufacturer.The company didn’t name its customer but it is highly likely Samsung Electronics and the modules are being on the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone.Optical zoom allo

LG Electronics was responsible for the ceramic coating process of battery separators used in batteries of Hyundai’s Kona EV, TheElec has learned.Earlier this week, South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation ordered a voluntary recall for Kona EV models due to the recent string

Iljin Diamond has been sued in the US for patent infringement.Industrial diamond firm US Synthetic has filed two lawsuits against Iljin Diamond and Iljin Holdings __ one on November last year to the southern district court of Texas and another in December to the International Trade Commission.US Syn

Global chip sales is expected to remain strong in 2021 but also challenging and will require bold actions from the government for US to capitalize on them, a senior executive of the semiconductor industry said on Thursday.In 2020, industry sales for the year ticked up 6.8% from the 2019 total, reach

Hanwha Corporation on Friday said it has posted sales of 59.92 trillion won and operating income of 1.58 trillion won for the entire year of 2020.It is a rise of 1% and 40.5%, respectively, from 2019. Annual net income increased by 220%.The holding company of Hanwha Group said the growth was thanks

Qualcomm said on Thursday that a slew of global brands have launched devices powered by its wireless audio solutions.The companies are: Audio Technica, AVIOT, Bang & Olufsen, Belkin, Cambridge Audio, Cleer, Earin, Edifier, Glidic, Jabra, JVC, Kakao Enterprise, Naver, Marshall, Sennheiser and Yamaha.

NXP on Thursday announced its integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) solutions for industrial automation.The solutions support CC-Link IE TSN protocol, which combines gigabit Eternet bandwidth with TSN to strengthen time sharing communication, performance, security and functionality for industri

Intel and Google Cloud on Tuesday said they will collaborate on developing telco cloud reference architectures and solutions.These will allow telcos to accelerate the deployment of virtualized RAN and open RAN solutions, the pair said.They will also allow service providers to innovate for cloud nati

Kioxia and Western Digital announced that they have developed their Gen 6 162-layer 3D flash memory.The latest chip, thanks to a new architecture beyond the conventional eight-stagger memory hole array, has up to 10% greater lateral cell array density compared to the Gen 5, the pair said.The new fla

Kolon Industries said on Thursday that it has posted 4.03 trillion won in sales and 152.4 billion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020. It is a decline of 8.4% and 11.8%, respectively, from 2019.For the fourth quarter alone, the company recorded sales of 1.14 trillion won and operatin

Samsung Electronics’ application of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology on its latest DRAM has showed fabrication benefits in scaling, expediting production and improved performance yields, according to reverse engineering analysis firm Techinsights.Samsung applied EUV technology on 1zn

Earnings of South Korean display equipment manufacturer Leading Edge Technology (LET) in 2021 will rely on how much foldable smartphones Samsung can ship.LET is Samsung Display’s exclusive supplier of laminator, used to stack ultra-thin glasses that act as cover windows on the foldable panels.The co