A LG researcher said on Friday that materials used in smartphones that support 28GHz spectrum of 5G networks are still expensive is in need of improvement.Song Gi-chang of LG Electronics’ Materials & Devices Advanced Research Institute said at the Nano Korea 2020 trade show at KINTEX, Ilsan said in

SK Telecom has won an award from Small Cell Forum (SCF) for its 4G, 5G dual mode RF repeater, the company said.The South Korean telco won the Commercial Small Cell Design & Technology category at SCF Small Cell Awards 2020.The repeaters are used to amplify signals to expand coverage in buildings, tu

Business-to-business (B2B) will be central to 5G networks unlike previous mobile communication that focused on consumers, KT CEO Ku Hyeon-mo has said.Speaking at an online keynote speech for GTI Summit 2020, Ku said operators needed to focus on the B2B sector when it comes to 5G. There will be explo

South Korean repeater maker Solid is eyeing to win London Underground’s network building project, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.The Tube has been testing 4G LTE networks on some part of its Jubilee line since March. It will decide who will run the project within the third quarter,

Companies in the South Korean battery industry are looking to commence initial public offerings (IPO) on KOSDAQ from the South Korean government's move towards boosting the electric vehicles market to jump start the economy that has been damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.A total of six companies have

Posco Chemical has begun construction of its synthetic graphite cathode factory at Pohang, South Korea, on Thursday, the company said.The company decided to invest 217.7 billion on to build the factory at a board meeting on March 30.The factory will have an annual production rate of 16,000 metric to

LG Display is planning to restart operations of its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel plant in Guangzhou, China this month, people familiar with the matter said.The company has already secured the necessary yield rate for mass production sometime during the second quarter, they said. However

Semiconductor and display equipment maker STI has been chosen as KOSDAQ Rising Star by the Korea Exchange, the company said on Thursday.The Korea Exchange has been selecting Rising Star companies since 2009 to promote KOSDAQ. A total of 34 companies were chosen this year.They are chosen by a committ

Qualcomm has launched Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for use in smartwatches, the company announced.The SoCs were made using the 12-nanometer process and uses ARM Cortex A53 (1.7GHz). They use the Adreno A504 as the graphics processing unit. It supports LPDDR3 memory.The US ch

Kolon Industries will show off its components for hydrogen fuel cell at a tradeshow in South Korea.The company will display its proton-exchange membrane (PEM), membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and water management devices at H2 Mobility+Energy Show 2020 at KINTEX, Ilsan from Wednesday to Friday.Kol

SK Hynix has begun mass production of 16 gigabyte (GB) HBM2E high-speed DRAM, the company said on Thursday.It will be suitable for super computing and artificial intelligence applications, the company said.It has a 3.6 gigabits per second (Gbps) per pin with 1024 I/O __ which means it can process ar

The son and heir of South Korean semiconductor materials maker Soulbrain has died in an automobile accident last month, TheElec has learned.Seok-Ho Chung, born in 1986, was the son of chairman and founder Jiwan Chung. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University before joining Soulbrain. He worke

Samsung Electronics hired 500 experts with doctorate level degrees in semiconductor design and artificial intelligence (AI) in the first half of 2020, the company said on Wednesday.The South Korean tech giant said it plans to hire 1,000 in total by the end of the year. It will be its highest number

LG Electronics is planning to launch a rollable smartphone early next year and the project is called B Project, sources within the company told TheElec.The company has begun production for the prototype of the device at its factory in Pyeongtaek. Most commercial products goes to three to four trial

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to contract 2.6% this year to be worth 9.65 trillion won, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The forecast is lower than KPCA’s initial one made earlier this year of a contraction of 1.5%. The adjustment is due to the

Samsung Electronics has displayed its Lifestyle TV models __ The Sero and The Serif __ at popular beauty stores in South Korea, it said on Wednesday.The TVs will be on display at Sulwhasoo Flagship Store and Amore Seongsu.The Sero is a TV that is long vertically and shaped like a smartphone screen.

Hanwha Corporation has opened an online shopping mall that sells products from small- to medium-sized enterprises (SME) for its employees and those that work at its suppliers, the company said on Wednesday.The mall will have 40 different categories and sell around 40,000 different products. Hanwha w

Samsung Display has put in the equipment necessary to produce Quantum Dot (QD) displays at its factory in South Korea.The company held a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating putting the equipment in at its plant in Asan.Last year in October, Samsung Display announced that it was exiting the Liquid Cr

Samsung Electronics has launched a new quad-level cell (QLC) solid-state drive (SSD) that offers up to 8 terabyte (TB) capacity.The 870 QVO SATA SSD comes in 1, 2, 4 and 8TB capacities. The 8TB model offers an endurance rate of 2,880TB in total bytes written, Samsung said.The new SSD have sequential

Contract prices of DDR4 8Gb for PCs has stabilized in June after five months of continuous rise, according to data from DRAMeXchange on Tuesday.The DRAM was contact priced at $3.31 as of end of June, same as its price at the end of May.DRAM aimed at PCs and notebooks saw a short-term increase earlie