Arm has unveiled a new suit of mobile IP that will offering greater efficiency and performance for 5G and AI, the company announced Tuesday.They include the Cortex-A78 CPU, the Mali-G78 GPU, the Mali-G68 and the Ethos-N78 NPU. Arm will also offer a new program that will allow customize the products

Clamshell will be the most popular form of foldable smartphones from now up until 2025, a market research firms said Wednesday. The form has been currently commercialized by Samsung Electronics and Motorola.This year, 3 million units of clamshell-type panels for smartphones will be shipped, accordin

Apple’s iPhone 11 saw the highest shipment among smartphones worldwide in the first quarter, according to market research firm Omdia.Cupertino moved 19.5 million units in the quarter, the firm said. It is considerably higher 13.6 million units marked by iPhone XR in the first quarter of 2019.Samsung

Cosmo AM&T and SK Telecom will install solar panels at the former’s factory in Chungju, the companies announced.They will finish installation by October and began supplying the energy in November to KEPCO, the country’s largest electric utility.The plant will have an energy capacity of 2.7MW.The sol

A new silicon anode production technology that can improve performances of lithium-ion batteries dramatically has been developed by a South Korean company.LPN, which specializes in electronic materials, said it has developed a new production method for a nanosilicon-based high-capacity anode, Tuesda

SK Telecom has developed a new autonomous robot that will handle disinfection and monitoring duties to assist in preventing the spread of COVID-19, the company said Tuesday.The robot, which was co-developed with South Korean industrial automation solution provider Omron, will disinfect designated ar

LG Chem has announced it will not enter any businesses that it can’t guarantee safety and environmental protection going forward, Tuesday.It will also consider pulling out of any existing business that it can’t guarantee employee safety and the environment, company added.The strengthened safety meas

A key supplier of semiconductor equipment to Samsung Electronics has seen its first quarter earnings recover.It signals that the world’s largest memory chip maker is resuming investment into semiconductors after it decreased it due to the global downturn of the memory market. The move is expected to

South Korean image sensor company PixelPlus is facing the possibility of being delisted from the country's secondary bourse KOSDAQ from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.The company has posted four-straight years of losses as of last year and is already on the stock exchange’s management list due

LG Display is aiming to supply up to 20 million units of mobile OLED display panels to Apple for the iPhone 12 series, sources within the company told TheElec.Cupertio is expected to order 75 million units for its upcoming smartphones launching later this year. Samsung Display is expected to supply

Seoul Viosys will launch a new portable air purifier with ultraviolet LED technology next month in South Korea and the US, the company said Tuesday.Called VAC, it will use a short wavelength LED that can kill germs and viruses, including COVID-19, the Korean firm said.It analyzes the photon light fr

Mauser Electronics and Molex has launched online tools for customers to customize their cable orders quickly.Users can configure the length of the cable and circuits to their need using the tool.They will get the concept, drawing, 3D model, estimate and product sample within two days after their req

LG Electronics has launched its 2020-model NanoCell TVs in South Korea, the company said Tuesday.The 65-inch LG NanoCell 8K AI ThinQ, or 65Nano99, has started sales, the Korean hardware giant said. Another 65-inch model, called 65Nano97, which has slightly less specs will launch early next month, LG

Samsung Electronics has launched a new secure element (SE) chip to protect mobile devices, the company said Tuesday.Called S3FV9RR, the chip will be offered in standalone turnkey with a security software, the South Korean tech giant said. It will be available in the third quarter. The security chip

South Korean component suppliers to Samsung Electronics are expecting poor scorecards for their second quarter earnings due to drastic decline in the production of smartphones by the tech behemoth.It was a “life or death” situation for some companies, people with direct knowledge of the matter told

SKC will co-develop a new biodegradable bioplastic production technology with local government research institutes, the company announced Monday.It will develop the technology together with 16 institutes, including the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Ulsan City and the Minis

LG Electronics has been asked to reconsider its plan to move some of its TV productions in South Korea to Indonesia by the city that hosts them.In a statement published Monday by Jang Seyong, the mayor of Gumi City, North Gyeongsang Province, the move was described as a "pity for the people of South

Japanese telco Rakuten has ordered small-sized optical repeaters for its 4G LTE network from South Korean parts suppliers, The Elec has confirmed.CS and GS Instech each supplied half the initial order placed by the mobile carrier earlier this year, people familiar with the matter said.However, due t

LG Uplus will assist in South Chungcheong Province’s planned cluster to foster content businesses in the region, the telco said Monday.The telco and Chungnam Culture Technology Industry Agency will collaborate in the fostering of a planned research and business development cluster for virtual realit

Samsung Display will use a circular electrode structure for the pixels of its QNED, or quantum dot nanorod LED, displays, a South Korean research firm claims.UBI Research said Monday it analyzed 41 patents of the company, sorting out and analyzing the most complete of them, in a new report called QN