Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee has passed away on October 25, Sunday, Samsung said. He was 78 years old.His death comes six years after he was hospitalized in 2014 after suffering a heart attack. Samsung said his funeral will be for family members only. Lee is survived by his son Jae-yong,

Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee who died on Sunday at age 78 laid the foundation for Samsung Electronics to become the world’s top memory semiconductor in the world.On December, 194, when he was a director at Tongyang Broadcasting, then a subsidiary of Samsung group, he invested his personal funds to o

Semiconductor testing firm Nepes Ark is aiming to win a large order from Samsung Electronics to test CMOS image sensors (CIS), TheElec has learned.Samsung is expanding its CIS production to catch up to market leader Sony, which is making it difficult for the South Korean tech to test them all on its

Analog Devices and NEC have designed Rakuten Mobile’s 5G base station massive MIMO antenna radio unit, the pair said.The radio unit uses Analog Device’s fourth-generation RF transceiver solution.Rakuten Mobile has an open virtual RAN interface for its 5G network.NEC said it has already begun the sup

Battery protective circuit company ITM Semiconductor will enter the battery pack market for electric vehicles (EV) and energy storage systems (ESS), the company said.It will also begin battery protective circuit and pack businesses in notebooks, power tools and wireless cleaners next year, it said.I

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited the conglomerate’s Vietnam operation in a four day business trip from October 19 to 22, the company said.Lee inspected facilities of Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display. He also visited the construction site of the company’s new research

Samsung Display change its display panel technology for its foldable panel that will be supplied for Samsung Electronics’ foldable smartphone launching next year to accommodate the S Pen stylus, a South Korean research firm said.Samsung Display will consider applying active electrostatic solution (A

LG Display has posted higher-than-expected earnings in the third quarter of 2020.The company posted 164.4 billion won in operating profits and 6.73 trillion won in sales in the quarter.The operating profit figure beats that of the market consensus of South Korean analysts, which expected operating p

Posco Chemical has posted sales of 388.6 billion won in the third quarter of 2020 thanks to the strong performances of its battery materials business.The company also posted operating profits of 19.3 billion won in the quarter, a decline of 30.7% year over year. But sales was an increase of 4.6% fro

Seoul Viosys has supplied its Violeds sterilization LED for air conditioners to South Korean cafe chain Baekgeumdang, the company said on Thursday.The company also supplied the LED for use at a public gym at Jongno, Seoul.Seoul Viosys has been installing the LED at air conditioners in restaurants an

Synopex’s face mask called Syno.Tex has been registered by US’s FDA, the company said on Thursday.Syno.Tex membrane filter mask has been categorized as for the general population and medical professionals, the South Korean company said.The registration opens the door for the masks to be exported to

LG Chem has posted its best quarterly performance ever in the third quarter of 2020.It posted operating profits of 902.1 billion won and sales of 7.57 trillion won in the quarter, the company said.It beats South Korean analysts’ expectations of around 730 billion won.Operating profit rose 57.8% from

SK Nexilis said on Monday that its copper foil produced at its factory in Jeongeup has been certified as the longest, widest and thinnest copper foil in South Korea by the Korea Record Institute.The company can produce copper foil thirty times thinner than the human hair non-stop for four days, it s

LG Display has singed an organic light emitting diode (OLED) partnership agreement with Disney StudioLAB, a subsidiary of Walt Disney.The partnership will last threes, the South Korean display panel maker said. Disney StudioLAB is Disney’s research arm that works on advanced filming and editing tech

SK Innovation wishes to quickly resolve its lawsuit with LG Chem and will continue to open channels for talks to continue, a senior executive of the company said on Tuesday.Dongseob Jee, president of SK Innovation’s battery business, told reporters at the InterBattery 2020 tradeshow taking place in

Seoul Semiconductor said on Tuesday that it has supplied its SunLike LED to a kindergarten in Slovenia.The company collaborated with European lighting company LED Luks to supply the LEDs, it said.Seoul Semiconductor supplied its lamp dubbed ARUN, which has Sunlike LED applied. The lamp comes with a

3D cover glass maker JNTC is planning to invest US$100 million to construct a third factory in Vietnam, the company said.The factory will be built near Hanoi where its Vietnamese subsidiary JNTC Vina is located.The facility will take up a space of 73,000 meters-square, the South Korean glass manufac

SFA will expand globally as a smart factory solution company based on its experiences in making kits for semiconductor, display and battery productions, the company said.The company unveiled its smart factory brand called NEO on Monday.SFA said it will be original, complete and comprehensive in its

Semiconductor materials company RFsemi will start its own microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry business, the company said.MEMS utilizes semiconductor production process to integrate ultra-small, micrometer-sized mechanical components and circuits on silicon wafers.Microphones made with this

TSE has begun supplying its ultra-fast test socket called Eltune to a global system-on-a-chip (SoC) maker, the company said.Eltune sockets offers shorter signal lengths compared to pogo pin sockets, the company said. The contact terminal was also wider and showed high results during yield rate testi