Isu Petasys has won an order from Samsung Electronics’ network business to supply multi-layer printed circuit board (MLB), TheElec has confirmed Tuesday.It is the PCB maker’s first direct supply deal with Samsung Network.Last year, Isu Petasys began supplying its MLB to telecom component and equipme

SK Innovation is planning to apply high-speed and wide methods in its battery production, TheElec confirmed Tuesday.The goal is to increase productivity to reduce costs __ but some of its other competitors have applied similar methods but is having difficulty securing yield rate. Whether SK will suc

Daeduck Electronics has ended production of high density interconnection (HDI) boards, TheElec has confirmed Tuesday.Daeduck’s exit follows those of Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG InnoTek made last year __ the, now former, three top companies in HDI in the local market.Production ended in April, p

APS Holdings has been assigned a government project to develop production technology for fine metal masks (FMM) used in deposition process when making active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOED), the company said Tuesday.FMM are used to deposit organic materials precisely when making OLED pan

Seoul Viosys will begin sales of its portable sterilizer, called VSM+, this month, the company said Tuesday.It will be available online starting in June 8 in South Korea and the US.VSM+ comes with Viosys’ violeds technology, which uses ultraviolet LED to kill germs.The company said it was effectivel

Hanwha Corporation is to issue public bonds to secure 70 billion won in funding, the company said Tuesday.It filed for the plan to the Financial Supervisory Service Monday, it said. NH Investment & Securities and Hanwha Investment & Securities will underwrite the transaction, it said.The company sai

Korea Toray Science Foundation will reward two researchers who have contributed to chemistry and material sciences, it announced Monday.Each researcher will get 100 million won as prize.It will also offer grants to four science team. Each team will receive up to 50 million won per year for a maximum

Oceanbridge, a semiconductor material and equipment vendor, will be sold to a special purpose company (SPC) effectively owned by SK Telecom, TheElec has confirmed.The SPC, called Pan Asia Semiconductor material, or Pan Asia, will buy 24.2% stake of Oceanbridge from existing shareholders __ including

SK Nexilis will invest 120 billion won, or US$97 million, into expanding one of its copper foil factory, the company announced.The factory, dubbed Factory 6, at Jeongeup, North Jeolla Province will produce 9,000 metric tonnes of copper foil per year when construction is completed in the first quarte

LG Chem is using NCM712 cathode material for its battery production in Poland, TheElec confirmed Monday.Use of NCM712, or nickel, cobalt and manganese in 7 to 1 to 2 ratio, will increase energy density of batteries which will increase travel distance per charge and lower the use of cobalt that will

Huawei’s South Korean operation has named a new chief security officer (CSO), the company said Monday.The post will be taken by Lee Joon-ho, the former co-CEO of SsenStone, a South Korean financial security tech firm.Lee was also formerly the chief information security officer (CIO) at Daum and CISO

KT CEO Koo Hyun-mo as been named one of the commissioners on International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) response team to the COVID-19 pandemic, the telco said.Koo will be the only South Korean among 58 members of the BroadBand Commission __ formed in 2010 __ jointly organized by the ITU and UNESC

Samsung Electronics has begun construction to expand its V-NAND memory production line at its Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea, the company announced Monday.It comes only 11 days after it announced it we building a new contract-chip making line at the plant that will produce 5-nanometer chips.The exp

SK Telecom is offering an accelerator program for promising start-ups in 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC), the company announced.The telco will receive applications for its TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center (TEAC) program this month and choose five companies to support, it said.SK Telecom will off

Samsung Electronics has opened an exhibition zone for its The Wall MicroLED TV at a department store in Suwon, the company said.A 146-inch version of The Wall will be displayed at a showroom near the entrance of the company’s premium store in the eighth floor of Galleria department store, Samsung sa

Jahwa Electronics will ends its smartphone camera module operation after only a year due to low profitability, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Monday.Those in the business will be shifted to other operations within the first half of the year, they said.The company started the operation

Samsung Electronics has launched its Odyssey G7 gaming monitor, first unveiled at CES earlier this year. The curved, QLED monitor comes in 27-inch and 32-inch sizes and has a curvature radius of 1,000 millimeters. Samsung said it has a 1ms response time with 240Hz refresh rate.It boasts 600 cd/m2 pe

Taiwan will offer unlimited data plan for its 5G network when they go live in the second half of the year, according Central News Agency Thursday.Unlimited data plan will start at NT$1399, which will be the “world’s cheapest,” the media reported. It is around 57,700 won in Korean won.South Korea off

LG Group chairman Koo Kwang-mo has asked employees to create a “culture of bold challenges” in an address made late Thursday at one of the conglomerate’s key facilities in Seoul.“Not doing anything, not boldly challenging can be seen as a failure,” he said to mark the second anniversary of the openi

Analog Devices as launched a software configurable input/output chips set in South Korea, the company said Friday.AD74412R and AD74413R allows for remote building and process control applications, which will increase work speed and flexibility.There is no downtime or extra cost when modifying design