Samsung Electronics will begin sales of its mid-tier Galaxy A42 5G smartphone in South Korea on Friday.The smartphone packs a 6.6-inch screen, quad camera and a 5,000mAh battery. It has what Samsung calls a layered pattern design on its back cover.The cameras on its back are 48MP main, 8MP ultra wid

Hana Technology said on Friday that it will issue 100% bonus shares.Existing shareholders will get one free share per existing ordinary share.The company will issue 3.51 million shares for free __ it will have 7.27 million shares in total afterwards.The shares will be issued on March 23 and listed o

Merck said on Friday that it will be changing the name of its performance materials business to electronics.The name change was part of its strategic realignment for the past couple of years, the company said. It was part of its Bright Future program that started in 2018, Merck said.“The renaming of

South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have very different ideas on how much the latter to should pay the former to settle their ongoing lawsuit over trade secret.LG is seeking a payment of around 3 trillion won; while SK is seeking to pay less than 1 trillion won, people f

Qualcomm on Thursday announced Snapdragon Sound which will offer significantly improved audio quality in wireless headphones, earbuds and smartphones.The US chip giant will offer its latest processors and Bluetooth audio SoCs, among other technologies, to offer hi-fi 24-bit 96kHz audio, ultra low la

South Korea’s prime minister Chung Sye-kyun on Thursday said he believed LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation’s request to White House to interfere in their ongoing battery dispute wasn’t helpful to South Korea’s national interest.Chung said at a press briefing in Seoul that it was in the two compan

VTGMP said on Wednesday that it has secured licenses to use use two patents related to lithium sulfate battery from Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI).The company also formed a new business division for the next-generation batteries.KERI will send two researchers to support the compan

AP Systems said on Wednesday that it has recorded 591.8 billion won in sales and 46.2 billion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020.It is a jump of 28% and 63%, respectively, from 2019. It is the company’s highest annual operating profit on record.Improvement in produce mix for semicon

Hana Technology said on Tuesday that it has won an orders for battery equipment worth 48.6 billion won.It will be supplying 43 billion won worth of assembly equipment and 5.6 billion won worth of back-end equipment.The combined worth of the deals is equal to 55% of its total sales in 2020, which was

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it will launch 21 models in its new Neo QLED TV series.This is three more than the 18 models rival LG Electronics plans to launch in its OLED TV series.Neo QLED TVs are liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs that use MiniLEDs as their backlighting. It is an upgra

LG Display said on Tuesday that it will form a new position of chief safety and environment officer (CSEO) to strengthen its safety policies. The CSEO will have authority level to that of a CEO on safety matters, the company said. The officer will be able to order production and facilities to be sus

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

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

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

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