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

The leaders of South Korea’s SK Group and Hyundai Motor Group met Tuesday to discuss collaboration in electric vehicles (EV) and future mobility technology, the companies said.SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won met with Hyundai Motor Group executive vice chairman Chung Eui-son at SK Innovation’s battery

LG Electronics has marked 493.1 billion won in operating profits in the second quarter, better than market expectations and mostly thanks to its home appliance business.The company said its revenue for the quarter was 12.8 trillion won. It is a drop of 17.9% in revenue and 24.4% in operating profits

LG Display has delayed the starting of operations at its 10.5th-generation organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel line at Paju indefinitely, sources within the company told TheElec on Tuesday.The company initially planned to begin production sometime between 2022 to 2023 but this has been delayed

Leader Systems, Nvidia’s distributor in South Korea, will offer a 90days free trial for vGPU software Remote Work With NVIDIA (RWWN), it said on Tuesday.The virtual GPU software will allow tech works to perform graphic-intensive work remotely, Leaders Systems said.It will provide resources to PCs as

ON Semiconductor will supply Danfoss with high powers IGBTs and diodes for inverter traction modules, the companies announced.The US chip maker will produce the power components at its 300mm wafer factory in New York and 200mm wafer factory in Bucheon, South Korea, for the supply to Danfoss Silicon

LG Chem has announced that it will maintain its carbon emission rate in 2019 all the way up to 2050.The plan, dubbed 2050 Carbon Neutral Growth, aims to reduce its expected carbon emission rate of the namesake year by 75%.It will react to climate change, use more reusable energies, recycle its resou

Samsung Electronics posted 8.1 trillion won in operating profit and 52 trillion won in revenue in the second quarter, the company said in its earning guidance on Tuesday.Operating profit rose 22.73% from a year prior and 25.58% from the previous quarter. Revenues dropped 7.36% year over year and 6.0

Cover windows used in foldable smartphones will use both ultra thin glass (UTG) and colorless polyimide (CPI) films for at least the next five years, market research firm UBI Research said on Monday.Shipment of CPI films and UTG will reach 4.5 million units and 3.5 million units, respectively, this

LG Display’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TV has received the Flicker Free Award from TUV Rheinland, the South Korean company said.This means LG’s OLED panels from 44 to 88 inches has all received the certificate from both the German standard firm as well as US counterpart Underwrit

LG Electronics has launched the LG Nanocell AI ThinQ TV, model name NANO87, in South Korea, the company said.The TV received level 1 in energy efficiency, which makes it eligible of up to 10% rebate of the purchasing price capped at 300,000 won from the Korea Energy Agency. It is the company’s secon

Sales of Samsung Electronics’ network business in the first half of 2020 will be 70% of what it was a year ago, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.This is due to the COVID-19 pandemic that delayed 5G investment plans of telcos, they said, with South Korean telcos postponing their 5G inve

Power semiconductor market will be worth US$1 billion next year, research firm Omdia said.Silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor market projections will continue on the increase by more than 10% annually for the next decade and will pass US$5 billion by 2029, the firm sa

IVWorks has developed a 6-inch GaN-on-SiC epiwafer, the company said, and it will look for a client.It comes after it developed a 4-inch one two years ago.Having the wafer larger allows vendors to produce more chips on a single sheet that reduces cost.GaN-on-SiC is used to make GaN, or gallium nitri

Battery equipment make A-Pro expects a sales growth of 30% in 2020 thanks to its client LG Chem’s aggressive expansion of factories, the company said on Friday.The South Korean firm said has marked an annual average growth rate of 73.8% in the past three years, in its press conference at Yeouido ahe

A South Korean research team has discovered a way to increase semiconductor integration by a thousand times, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology’s (UNIST) Energy and Chemical Engineering professor Lee Jun-hee and his research team has also reached

LED flip chip maker Semicon Light has received the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949 certificate, the company said on Friday.IATF 16949 is based on ISO 9001 and was standardized to meet customer demand fro the automobile industry. The certificate is given to those who pass the quality