LG Chem and SK Innovation has again engaged in a public battle of words over their electric vehicle (EV) battery patent lawsuit.SK Innovation claimed LG Chem’s allegations made during their lawsuits at US International Trade Commission (ITC) that the company destroyed evidence were all lies. LG Chem

KLA has launched a semiconductor packaging inspection systems with artificial intelligence (AI) applied, the company said,They are the Kronos 1190 wafer-level packaging inspection system, the ICOS F160XP die sorting and inspection system and the next generation of the ICOS T3/T7 Series of packaged i

Samsung Electronics Hwaseong campus, one of its semiconductor production facilities in South Korea, has received the Carbon Trust Standard for Water certification.It is the first time that a semiconductor site received the certification, Samsung said.It is given to organizations that has the best pr

Seoul Semiconductor has supplied its LED for headlamps on 2020 Audi A4, the South Korean company said.This marks its first supply to the German automobile giant.Seoul Semiconductor supplies its Wicop Bi-color 2 in 1 LED. Wicop technology allows LED to be mounted on the substrate without extra compon

SK Hynix have formed a subsidiary focused on industrial artificial intelligence (AI), the company announced.Called Gauss Labs, the company was formed last month at Silicon Valley. It will open an office in South Korea this month.SK Hynix plans to invest US$55 million into the new company by 2022.Gau

Samsung SDI has invested 5 billion won for shares in Philenergy, the battery equipment subsidiary of Philoptics.Samsung will get 60,000 shares for 83,334 won per share. It will have a non-executive board member at Philenergy. An executive overseeing planning will take the seat, people familiar with

Samsung Electronics has received the ISO 13482 certification for its robotic hip.Its GEMS, or Gait Enhancing and Motivating System, Hip met the ISO’s safety requirements for personal care robots, the company said.ISO 13482 was established in 2014 to ensure safety in mobile servant robots, physical a

Samsung Display has shown off the durability of its folding OLED display panel in a video posted on YouTube.The clip, titled Unfold the Brilliant Future, shows its OLED panel going through the 200,000 folding test.The panel is used for Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphone.The vid

APS Holdings will form a new company called APS Materials that will focus on fine metal masks (FMM), the company said.The motion to split-off the FMM business to a new company was approved in a board meeting on Friday.The matter will be up for vote at the shareholders’ meeting on October 29. If it p

Seagate has launched the Exos X18 18TB helium-filled hard disk drive aimed at the enterprise.It has both SATA and SAS interface. The drive is a 7200 RPM CMR (conventional magnetic recording) drive with a 256MB multi-segmented cache.Users of the drive will be able to expand their data storage at a re

Arm’s subsidiary Arm Treasure Data is offering its Customer Data Platform (CDP) for South Korean companies that will use local data centers.Previously, the service was offered through data centers in the US and Japan.South Korean firms will be able to store their data locally through the service now

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), together with Gachon University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) of Saudi Arabia will co-develop next-generation broadband software-defined RF platform.KETI was selected by the universities to take part in the project.Softw

Samsung Electronics will extend the pre-ordering period for the Galaxy Z Fold 2 to September 22 in South Korea, the company said on Wednesday.Official sales in the country will begin in September 23.The company initially planned to run pre-orders from the 15 to 17 but is extending this due to high p

Samsung Display said on Wednesday that the OLED panel of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 had the word’s smallest radius of curvature at 1.4R.1.4R means the curvature of the display when folded equals that of a circle with a radius of 1.4mm. The smaller the number, the more the display can be folded.Samsung said

Chinese metal company Vital Materials has been confirmed as the buyer of Samsung Corning Advanced Glass’s factory in Gumi, South Korea.Vital announced that it bought the ceramic target business of Samsung on its homepage. The Gumi factory has been producing targets used its display and solar panels.

Intel and Samsung Medison are developing a new smart workflow solutions to improve obstetric measurements that can help to increase maternal and fetal safety, the companies said.One of the solutions, BiometryAssist, will use Intel Core i3 processor, Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit and OpenCV

Seoul Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit in the US, the company said on Tuesday.The court in California has ordered a permanent injunction against LED products made by Philips and Feit that were sold by The Factory Depot.Philip’s signage affected by the injunction use Lextar’s LED package and

Camera lens company Kolen plans to expand sales of lens aimed at budget model smartphone, the company said on Tuesday.The South Korean firm previously relied on lens used in flagship smartphones. It is a supplier to Samsung Electronics.Multi-camera smartphones with more than three cameras accounted

Dreamtech has named another CEO in its shareholders’ meeting on Monday.New CEO Park Chan-hong will manage the company’s smartphone component business while current CEO Kim Hyung-min will manage the healthcare business, Dreamtech said.The South Korean component maker said having two CEOs will strengt

Samsung Electronics will collaborate with media contents maker d’strict to create contents for its LED signage, the company said.The two collaborated on showing an image of waves on Samsung’s 1620 square meter signage in South Korea back in May.The pair will showoff new contents within the year on t