LG Electronics expects demand for TVs to rebound in the second half of the year, the company said on Monday, and will display some of its key products at key shops globally to meet them.The South Korean hardware maker said it was expanding displaying of its wallpaper-concept LG OLED Galleria TV, or

Samsung Electronics will use Chinese vendor CSOT’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for its upcoming Galaxy M41 smartphone, TheElec confirmed on Monday.It will mark the first time that the South Korean tech giant uses OLED panels not produced by affliate Samsung Display for its Galaxy serie

LG Uplus and Autonomous a2z will collaborate in developing an autonomous driving service, the companies said.The telco will provide its 5G network, dynamic map and real time kinematic solutions, while Autonomous a2z will provide its autonomous driving platform. Testing will be done at Sejong City, s

Posco Chemical has begun the review to commence more investment into its anode material production plant, TheElec confirmed on Friday.The company is expected to wrap up the discussion and give the go-ahead to invest in adding new factory lines at anode-producing plant at Gwangyang in the third quart

HFR will wrap up the field testing by next month for the fronthaul network equipment that it is planning to supply to US telco Verizon, the company said Friday.The South Korean telecom equipment maker was chosen as a supplier for the US carrier back in February. The fronthaul equipment will be suppl

An ex-Samsung Electronics executive has responded to concerns over his move to a Chinese semiconductor company, stressing that there won’t be any technology transfer or leak.Chang Won-ki, who was formerly the president and head of Samsung’s China operation, recently drew headlines in South Korean me

Intel has official launched its Lakefield processor that comes with its Hybrid Technology, Thursday.The chip has five cores __ a 10-nanometre core and four low-power cores.It will power Samsung Galaxy Book S and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold.The Lakefield package measures 12x12x1mm, 56% smaller than its p

Huawei Korea has launched its AirEngine WiFi6 aimed for the South Korean enterprise market, it said.The Wi-Fi supports wireless interface data speed of 10.75Gbps, the Chinese company said, and offer 100Mbps wireless network.This was twice as fast as competitor’s and faster than conventional wired ne

Nano Korea 2000 industry show will have four levels of prevention measures in place against COVID-19, its organizers says.All visitors will be required to wear a face mask to enter the show, which will run from July 1 to 3 at KINTEX in Goyang City.Staff will check whether visitors are wearing masks

Coweaver has successfully applied Post Quantum Cryptography (PQS) on its Re-configurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM).The optical transmission system maker is supplying the equipment to South Korean telco LG Uplus, which will likely use it for its enterprise network, the companies said.PQS i

LG Chem has become the second largest supplier of electric vehicle (EV) batteries in China, according to a local research firm.The South Korean battery giant moved 2087MWh of batteries used in EV from January to May, Battery China said.Local vendor CATL topped the list with 6178MWh while BYD placed

Shengyi Electronics, which supplies printed circuit board (PCB) for network equipment to Huawei and Samsung, will debut on China’s Science and Technology Innovation Board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the company said Thursday.Dongguan-based company is aiming to secure 3.96 billion yuan from the f

Hisense will launch the UEFA.tv app on their TVs, the companies announced Thursday.The UEFA sponsor said its smart TVs running on the Linux-based VIDAA operating system and Hisense-made Toshiba TV have the app. It is available in Europe as of Thursday. Other regions will also get app in the months t

Samsung Electronics has changed one of its suppliers for digitizers that will go into its Galaxy Note series, TheElec confirmed on Thursday.SI Flex has failed to meet the cut while BH has been chosen as a new supplier. BH will be the secondary supplier of digitizer along with main supplier Interflex

Samsung Electronics has received UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill validation of Gold level and above for all of its global semiconductor operation sites, the company said on Thursday.Its Austin semiconductor operation received the validation first in January, followed by its five plants in South Korea __

South Korean telco LG Uplus has signed a deal to export 5G Virtual Reality (VR) content to its Taiwanese counterpart Chunghwa Telecom, the company said on Thursday.The Korean telco said it was its fourth of such deals __ following those it made with China Telecom in October last year and Hong Kong T

LG Electronics has supplied an ultra-large LED screen to a movie theater in Taiwan, the company said on Thursday.It is the first commercialization of the South Korean hardware maker’s LG LED Cinema Display, LG said.It was installed in at 300-seat movie theater run by local cinema chain Showtime Cine

LG Display has been assigned a national project to develop a stretchable display panel, the company said Thursday.It will take the lead as one of 21 companies and institutions taking part in the project, which is backed by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE).The goal is to produce a s

World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) has lowered its forecast for this year’s semiconductor market growth rate.WSTS said it expected worldwide semiconductor market to grow 3.3% year over year to US$426 billion in 2020. It expected a growth rate of 5.9% in an earlier forecast published in Dece

Worldwide flat panel display equipment market plummeted 41% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, market research firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) says.It was also a 30% drop from the fourth quarter. The 29 listed companies combined posted revenues of