Kolen was developing three 64MP lens, the company said on Thursday.It was following request from a major client, the lens maker said. It didn’t name its client.Kolen is a supplier to Samsung Electronics. The South Korean tech giant has used 64MP lens for its premium smartphones last year and expandi

South Korean smartphone component makers Ryuk-Il C&S and Cammsys have entered the supply chain of Vietnamese handset maker VinSmart, TheElec confirmed on Thursday.Cover glass maker Ryuk-Il and camera module maker Cammsys have already begun production of the some of the components it plans to supply

Taiwanese industrial network firm Moxa has launched the new MC-1220 series of edge computers, the company said on Thursday.The MC-1220 series come with Intel core i7, i5 and i3 with multiple extended interface. It supports hardware accelerators like VPU.They also support Intel OpenVINO tool kit used

Seoul Viosys and University of Ulsan have developed a diagnostic tool that can detect cancers in pet with a responsiveness of 95%, the company said on Thursday.The pair used Viosys’ Violeds LED technology that uses ultraviolet light.They used it to compared blood samples of healthy pets and those wi

Italian wireless module firm Telit said its 5G data card FN980 has secured approval from various countries.It has received the KC certification from the Korea Communication Commission. It has also received approval from the FCC, PTCRB, RED, GCF, JRL, JTBL and other authorities globally.FN980 is base

Huawei has ranked 49th in 2020 Fortune Global 500 list, the company said.It is a jump of 12 in ranking. The Chinese tech giant ranked 61st on last year’s list. The company entered the top hundred for the time in 2017 with a ranking of 83rd place. It was ranked 72th in 2018.Huawei posted US$124.3 bil

SKC will secure a 100% stake in its subsidiary SKC Solmics, the company said on Wednesday.SKC will buy 42.3%, equivalent to 25,972,532 shares, stake of SKC Solmics through tender offer and comprehensive share swap to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, it decided in a board meeting.The public takeove

The world’s ton ten semiconductor companies have seen their sales rise 17% in the first half of 2020 compared to a year ago, according to IC Insights.Their combined sales in the first half of the year was US$147.093 billion, the research firm said. All saw growth in the time period except Broadcom a

SK Hynix has invested in a US Start-up that provides Reduced Instruction Set Compute-V commercial core.SiFive raised an additional US$60 million in funding from SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco, Reuters reports. Existing investors Intel, Qualcomm and Western Digital also joined the funding round.A SK Hynix

Digital driver’s license on mobile authentication app Pass has exceeded a million users, South Korean telcos said.The license was launched in June in collaboration with local police and traffic authorities by SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus.The license was being as identification cards at local convenie

Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile is hesitating on which technology to use for its 5G network which is causing delays in supply plans of South Korean network equipment makers, TheElec learned on Wednesday.The Japanese company initially planned to roll out 5G networks in September. Rakuten initially plan

Synopex has posted an operating loss of 800 million won and sales of 92.6 billion won in the first half of 2020, the company said on Tuesday.The company stressed that sales were higher than the 80.5 billion won in 2019 in the same time period despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Synopex said

Samsung Display announced on Wednesday that it has adopted its Adaptive Frequency technology on the Galaxy Note20 Ultra that can save 22% more in panel power consumption.Adaptive Frequency is the brand name given Samsung Display’s low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TF

Samsung Electronics has restarted its original design manufacturing (ODM) operations after it was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The company’s ODM partner Wingtech of China has launched the Galaxy M01s smartphone last month, which is aimed at Asian markets. The phone is a derivative of the Galaxy M

A KT-led artificial intelligence (AI) group will hold a study week in which it will provide AI-related education content for two weeks, the telco said.Members of the AI One Team will provide their own AI contents between August 10 to August 21.The contents were made for internal employees but the al

Laser equipment firm Philoptics have posted two straight quarters of profits as of the second quarter of 2020.The company posted 7.6 billion won in operating profits and sales of 67.9 billion won in the second quarter, the company said on Tuesday. It is a return to profit and an increase of 278%, re

Optical film company Shinwha Intertek is entering the encapsulant market for large-sized organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company told TheElec on Tuesday.It has already provided samples for multiple display panel makers, including LG Display, a company spokesperson said. Shinwha was e

South Korean camera lens maker will expand its factory in Vietnam, the company said on Tuesday.It will secure 18 billion won for the expansion through paid-in capital increase, it said in its filing to local regulators.The new shares will be listed on November 3.The company’s Vietnam factory was run

LG Uplus has launched its augmented reality (AR) glasses that is only available for its 5G subscribers.The glasses, dubbed U+ Real Glasses, will go on sales on August 21.They are based on AR glasses made by Chinese start-up Nreal which was founded in 2017. The devices were first shown off in CES 201

SK Telecom said it is providing its artificial intelligence (AI) education videos to 16 universities in South Korea in the second half of the year.Dubbed the AI Curriculum, the telco supplied it to five universities last year.The curriculum has a total of 49 videos with lessons from 15 AI experts. T