Samsung Electronics is planning to apply optical image stabilizers (OIS) on the cameras of its 2021-model Galaxy A series, TheElec confirmed on Wednesday.Until now, South Korean tech giant has reserved the feature for its flagship smartphones the Galaxy S series and Galaxy Note series.The higher spe

LG Chem has sued SK Innovation to Seoul Central District Prosecution Office again, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Wednesday.LG was likely putting pressure on SK and using the lawusit as an added bargaining chip to receive a higher amount of settlement in their trade leak lawsuit. LG

Samsung SDI will soon wrap up its 200 billion won project to increase the safety at its energy storage systems (ESS) in South Korea, TheElec has learned.The company has applied shock detection sensors, commenced firmware updates and installed fire extinguishing systems at existing ESSs at around 1,0

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) will formally complain to the Chinese ambassador of South Korea on Wednesday of Jiangxi Infintech’s delayed payments due to local display equipment makers, TheElec learned on Tuesday.They have invited ambassador Xing Haiming for a morning conference wher

Samsung Electronic’ network business boss Jeon Kyung-hoon has visited South Korean repeater maker Solid late last month to discuss their collaboration for customer KDDI and open RAN, TheElec confirmed on Tuesday.Japanese telco KDDI is a major customer of Samsung Network. The South Korean company has

Samsung Electronics will hold its sixth Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup (SCPC), the company said on Tuesday.University students in any major can apply for the cup at Samsung Research’s homepage by August 18.The first and second preliminary rounds will commence on August 21 and September 5, respec

STMicroelectronics and Fingerprint Cards will develop an advanced biometric system-on-card (BSoC) solution for contactless payment card, the companies said.The cards will have fingerprint sensors embedded in them that will allow payments to be made without the need for app connections or passwords b

Huawei posted 454 billion yuan (77.6 trillion won) in first half sales __ an increase of 13.1% year over year, the company said on Tuesday.Its net margin rate for the same time period was 9.2%, the Chinese tech giant said.Its consumer business contributed 255.8 billion yuan, its carrier business 159

KT has developed a 5G network slicing service aimed at business clients, the company said on Tuesday.The telco has wrapped up the technological development and verification for the service, it said.It will allow physical 5G networks to be separated into multiple virtual ones. It will be applied to c

Samsung Display’s flexible OLED shipment to China will triple this year compared to last year, UBI Research said on Tuesday.The South Korean display panel maker will ship 47 million units of flexible OLED panel to China this year __ in 2019 it shipped 15.5 million units.Thanks to this high demand fr

The patent lawsuit between Corephotonics and LG InnoTek is in a quagmire as LG seems bent on delaying proceedings to wait for an invalidation judgment.Corephotonics first claimed in 2017 via its YouTube channel that LG InnoTek violated its patents related to the dual-camera feature used on Apple’s i

PNE Solution have failed to clinch Northvolt’s order for battery equipment that would have been used in commercial production lines.South Korean battery equipment maker said Monday it failed in its bid to supply formation equipment to the Swedish electric vehicle (EV) battery maker.It’s competition

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