Seoul Semiconductor has claimed that Everlight lied about its patent lawsuit win at a German court.Seoul Semiconductor said that patent EP1697983, which the Taiwanese company said it won a patent invalidation suit against, did not belong to the South Korean company. The company said it was not the s

South Korea’s largest semiconductor and display equipment maker Semes have given rewards to its top suppliers, the company said on Thursday.The ceremony was hosted by Semes CEO Kang Chang-jin with CEOs from 21 of its suppliers in attendance.Semes said it kept social distancing measures and invited f

Samsung Display has commenced live broadcasting at the business and division level to share its management goals with employees, the company said on Thursday.The South Korean display maker minimized offline meetings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic but expanded such as online meetings to expand in-

South Korean telcos will invest between 24.5 trillion won to 25.7 trillion won in 5G networks by 2022, the companies said.SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus made the announcement together with the Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday.However, the figure amounts to an annual CAPEX of 8.2 trillion won to

AMD has announced the new new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processor line-up aimed at workstations, on Tuesday.The highest tier AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX among the four (3995, 3975, 3955 and 3945) has 64 cores.AMD said its GPU performance was 37% higher than Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8280.The comp

CommScope has launched new Wi-Fi 6 access points (AP) in South Korea.It now offers six models in total: AP RUCKUS 750 (R750) as well as AP R850, R650 and R550. It also launched the outdoor models AP T750 and T750SE.R650 and T750 were launched in the first quarter, and R550 and R850 in the second qua

Laser company LIS has won a 31.5 billion won order from Chinese display giant CSOT for organic light emitting diode (OLED) equipment, the company said on Wednesday.The deal is equal to 21.77% of its 2019 sales. The contract will expire on August 17.In May, LIS won a 48 billion won order from BOE for

Display equipment maker Youngwoo DSP will supply 30.8 billion worth of organic light emitting diode (OLED) inspection equipment to Chinese display maker CSOT, the company said on Wednesday.The deal is equal to 30.7% of its annual sales last year. The contract will last from July 14 to August 20.Youn

South Korean power amplifier (PA) company Wipam will began supplying its goods to a Chinese smartphone company in the second half of the year, CEO Yu Dae-kyu said on Wednesday.It will open a branch office in China as this is required for a 1st tier supplier to the company, Yu said at the company’s p

Analog Devices will acquire Maxim Integrated Products in an all-stick stock transaction worth US$20.5 billion.It is the second largest deal in the semiconductor industry __ Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom for US$37 billion in 2016.It is also Analog’s second large acquisition. It bought Linear T

Seoul Semiconductor has lost its patent lawsuit against its Taiwanese counterpart Everlight in Germany.The German Federal Patent Court has decided to invalidate Seoul Semiconductor's Europe LED patent EP1697983, according to Everlight on Monday.The Taiwanese company filed the patent invalidation law

Samsung Electronics expects six-generation (6G) communication to be commercialized in 2028, the company said in a white paper on Tuesday.6G services will go mainstream in 2030, Samsung said. 5G was commercialized in April of last year.According to the white paper, 6G will have 50 times the peak data

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