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

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed a 0804 (0.8mm x 0.4mm) power inductor, the company said.It is the world’s smallest power inductor, it said. They have a thickness of 0.65mm.Its previous smallest power inductor aimed at mobile devices was sized 1210, Samsung said.Power inductor’s characteristi

Samsung Display’s subsidiary Samsung Corning Advanced Glass will sell its factory in Gumi, South Korea to a Chinese company.The company held a board meeting last week and decided on the matter, TheElec confirmed on Monday.Samsung Corning has two factories in South Korea __ one in Gumi and another at

Sung Kyung Kwan University’s (SKKU) Carbonium team has won the grand prize in the fourth Mobius developers content hosted by Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI).Mobius is KETI’s open source IoT platform. It is based on the one M2M standard.Carbonium developed a service that calculates gree

Dreamtech has completed its third factory in Vietnam, the company said on Friday.Construction for the factory started in November last year.The factory is located at Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) at Bac Ninh Province. It spans 22,420 square meters.The company’s first factory spans 18,910

Super capacitor maker Vinatech has set its share offering price for its IPO at 33,000 after wrapping up demand forecasts, the company said on Friday.The company listed on KONEX on 2013 but is expecting to transfer to KOSDAQ.The set offering price is higher than its initial hopes of between 27,000 wo

LED maker GeunVit (GV) has become a member of UNOPS, the company said.The organization under the UN supplies 20 trillion won worth of goods a year to 170 countries in need.GV will be supplying its early alarm system LED street lamp to UNOPS, it said.The lamps has IP cameras that can detect and alert

Samsung Display has sent a request to the US government for a license to allow it to sell panels to Huawei, TheElec has learned.LG Display, meanwhile, was reviewing the matter, people familiar with the matter said.Last month, the US Department of Commerce made it explicit that foreign-made goods tha

LG Electronics has launched its microLED signage brand called LG Magnit, the company said on Thursday.The company said the brand name its combination of magnificent and nit. The model names will be LSAB, LG said.The signage has micrometer-sized LED attached directly to the board that emits light.Mic

Seoul Semiconductor said on Thursday its SunLike light stands will be sold at Costco stores in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.The stand has LED light close to natural light and this will help children during studying and protect their eyesight, the company said.The will also help with sleep, it added

Maxim Integrated Korea launched a mobile app for analog chip shopping, the company said on Thursday.Customers can use their smartphones to check analog semiconductor information and order them as well through the app, called Essential Analog.Maxim will also provide application notes, blog contents,

Fab equipment spending will hit record numbers in 2021 thanks to the growth of the memory market, according to SEMI.Fab equipment spending in 2020 will increase 8% from a year prior to US$63.2 billion.Next year, this will increase by 13% year over year to reach US$65.5 billion, SEMI said.Demand from