A prestigious display industry show to take place in August will likely be canceled.The 20th International Meeting on Information Display, or IMID 2020, that was scheduled to take place from August 26 to 28 will likely be canceled as companies are minimizing employee activities in light of the COVID

Worldwide mobile core market great 10% in the first quarter from a year ago to be worth US$8 billion, according to market research group Dell’Oro.Huawei and Ericsson combined for over half of the market share in terms of revenue. Nokia, ZTE and Cisco together totaled over 25%, it said."There are oth

Worldwide TV market will contract 9% this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said Thursday.Total shipment in 2020 will be 233 million units, down 9.2% from 2019, the research firm said.LCD TV will drop 9.6% from a year ago to 229.4 million units, while OLED TV

SurplusGLOBAL has broken ground for its planned semiconductor equipment cluster at the city of Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday.Company CEO Bruce Kim, CEO Kwangha Suh of EQ Global, a subsidiary of SurplusGLOBAL, SEMI Korea president Hyun-Dae Cho and other senior officials of companies and the cit

Samsung Electronics has started a public competition for consumers to make their own artworks using the company’s eco-package for TVs, the company said Thursday.Consumers can turn in pictures of what they made using the packages for the contest, called Eco Pet House Challenge, by June 30. They can a

Samsung Display’s OLED panels have been certified as "Seamless Displays" from verification firm SGS, the company said Thursday.The South Korean display maker’s 90Hz and 120Hz smartphone OLED panels scored blur lengths of 0.9mm and 0.7mm, respectively, in SGS's review.The two panels also marked movie

LG Uplus will build LTE-Railway (LTE-R) networks for 26 stations of Seoul’s subway system, the telco said Thursday.The company will replace the current outdated wireless equipment those that use very high frequency (VHF), installed on Line 4 with LTE-R, it said.LTE-R will allow trains, monitoring ce

LG Electronics and LG Uplus has signed a comprehensive agreement with KT to collaborate in AI, the companies announced Wednesday.The three has agreed to share and co-develop core AI technologies, create new products, services and solutions using AI as well as to use AI to solve social issues togethe

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has developed a new electrode structure with increased durability and decreased performance drop of batteries, the government institute said Wednesday.Previous research focused on replacing metal foils, which are vulnerable to machine deformation, with c

Merck has integrated its recently acquired US firms into its semiconductor solution unit, it said.Versum Materials and Intermolecular will be integrated to Semiconductor Solutions, which will be under its Performance Materials, the company said.Performance Materials complements what each component c

Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings rose 13% in the first quarter from a year prior, industry group SEMI said Tuesday.Total billing for the quarter was US$15.57 billion, SEMI said. Taiwan was at the top of the list at US$4.02 billion, a rise of 6% from a year ago. China was seco

Hansol Chemical is planning to develop, produce and supply cathode materials for the first time, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Wednesday.The company will receive the necessary technologies from Samsung, the people said. Hansol will begin supplying the materials to Samsung SDI afterwar

Philoptics will take part in the national project to develop production technology for fine metal mask (FMM) used in organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company said Wednesday.The company will take part in developing 6th to 8th-generation FMM production technology for high-resolution OLE

South Korean telco LG Uplus has signed long-term contracts with suppliers to secure equipment used to service 10-gigabit internet.Dasan Networks said Wednesday it has signed a supply deal with LG worth 81.3 billion won. It will supply switch, Ethernet passive optical network and other equipment for

Radio frequency component maker Wisol is selling its subsidiary Wimas, TheElec confirmed Wednesday.Wisol, an affiliate of Daeduck business group, owns an 80% stake in material maker Wimas. It is selling the subsidiary for an unspecified amount, but it is thought be in the billions of wons.The decisi

The emerging memories market will grow to be worth US$36 billion by the year 2030, challenging the current dominance of DRAM and NAND flash memories, two prestigious research firm said Tuesday.Objective Analysis and Coughlin Associates published their joint report, dubbed Emerging Memories Find Thei

Ansys Korea and TUV Rheinland Korea will co-research technology validation of electric vehicles (EV) and autonomous cars, the companies said.The two companies signed the co-research and technology sharing agreement on Wednesday.They will collaborate to provide an environment for EV and autonomous ca

KT and Cognex has launched their machine vision solution for use in smart factories, the companies said.The South Korean telco and US-based image recognition company said 5G Smart Factory Vision will offer a rule-based machine vision and a deep learning-based machine vision.The solutions will collec

SK Telecom and Igloo Security will export their security solutions to Myanmar, the companies announced Tuesday.KOSDAQ-listed Igloo will supply its security information and event management (SIEM) solution, while the South Korean telco will offer security consulting for Myanmar’s National Cyber Secur

Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KISA) has named a new executive vice chairman.KSIA said Monday Lee Chang-han, formely the director of planning and coordination at the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was named to the post in unanimous decision by the board.Lee’s tenure will la