DB HiTek CEO and president Choi Chang-sik has been promoted to vice chairman, DB Group said.Choi, born in 1954, graduated from Seoul National University with Mater and Bachelor degrees in Material Engineering and joined DB Metal. He then moved to Samsung Electronics and worked there for 29 years, be

Wearable camera start-up Linkflow will display its goods at a showroom at its company building for enterprise customers, the company said Friday.Nexx360 and Fitt360 will be on display at the showroom in Yangjae, Seoul. They will also demonstrate real-time video conference using the devices. Four cha

Samsung Electronic will spend 100 billion on in funding to support semiconductor and display research in South Korean universities, the company said on Monday.The company formed an industry and academia collaboration center back in July, 2018 to help research and create jobs in universities. It bega

Smartphone application processor (AP) sales grew 6% year over year to US$4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020, Strategy Analytics said.This is despite the research firm saying earlier in April that smartphone shipment fell 16.9% year over year in the quarter.Average sales prices of APs rose due

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed five new multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for automobiles, the company said.Three of them are for vehicles’ powertrain system and two others are for anti-lock braking systems (ABS), Samsung said.Ceramic capacitors allows electricity to flow consistently an

Intel has unveiled its latest cable interface Thunderbolt 4 on Thursday.It supports the same 40Gbps speed as its predecessor Thunderbolt 3. The speeds of Thunderbolt 1 and 2 were 10Gbps and 20Gbps, repectively.Thunderbolt 4 will support a pair of 4K displays (or one 8K display), PCIe speeds have bee

Color filters will replace polarizers in foldable organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels in the future, a South Korean research firm said on Friday.Major panel companies were working on such technology as color filters will allow the panels to become thinner and more brighter, UBI Research said.

LG CNS has formed a task force dedicated to application modernization, TheElec confirmed on Friday.The task force is consists of 450 employees who will oversee application modernization business, technology and execution.Application modernization is the process of modernizing existing legacy applica

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Thursday said the government will expand its support for localizing the production of high-tech materials, components and equipment in his visit to SK Hynix’s chip plant at Icheon, Gyeonggi Province.Moon said Japan’s “unjust trade restrictions” have continued o

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it will invest 12.35 billion into 12 future technology projects run by local universities.The company has been investing in such projects under the Samsung Future Technology Fostering Program since 2014.It chose six areas to provide funding in for 2020 __ semicon

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G mobile platform on Wednesday.The US chip giant said CPU and GPU speed has increased 10% from Snapdragon 865.Data transfer rate has increased to 3.6Gbps from 1Gbps of is predecessor.The CPU uses Qualcomm Kryo 585 Prime Core. It also offers speed of 3.1GHz,

Synopex will merge with cable maker Flontec, the company announced in its filings to financial authorities on Thursday.Last year in March, Synopex secured the rights over the technology and sales for Flontec’s ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) membrane business and burrowed equipment to opera

LG Electronics will begin mass production next month of its Velvet smartphone aimed at the US, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Thursday.The company will make some design changes, including adding a millimeter (mm) wave antenna, from the version it launched for South Korea in May, the

SK Innovation has begun the construction of its second factory at its electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Georgia in the US, TheElec confirmed on Thursday.The company has wrapped up the foundation work for the factory and has started construction of the building. The second factory is at Jackson

Quantum dot (QD)-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels will remain under 10% of the total large-sized OLED panel shipments up to 2024, a South Korean research firm said on Thursday.Earlier this month, Samsung Display announced that it has put in equipment into its Asan factory for use in

Samsung Electronics has launched two new models __ HW-Q950T and HW-Q900T __ in its Q-series soundbar, the company said on Wednesday.They will be launched in Australia first on Wednesday and expanded to other markets. Sales in South Korea will begin on July 14.The HW-Q950T delivers the audio quality

Samsung Electronics will launch a new full-virtualized 5G Radio Access Network (vRAN) solution within the third quarter of the year, the company said.The company’s 5G vRAN consists of a virtualized Central Unit (vCU), a virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU), and a wide range of radio units to enable a

Samsung Electronics’ production plan for MicroLED TV is being delayed, raising the question of whether the South Korean conglomerate will launch them at all within the year, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Wednesday.The company initially planned to wrap up the production of the necessar

Jusung Engineering’s newly developed Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment is being tested by a South Korean customer, the company’s CEO told TheElec on Wednesday.The latest equipment combines time division and space division technologies, dubbed Time Spaced Divided (TSD) by the company, and is ex

LG Chem and GS Caltex will partner up to create a new electric vehicle (EV) service that uses big data, the companies said.The pair will also collaborate with Signet EV, Soft Berry, KST Mobility and Green Car to first develop a battery safety inspection service that uses big data collected during ch