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

SK Telecom will hold its artificial intelligence (AI) conference ai.x2020 on Thursday.SK Telecom CTO Kim Yoon, Robust.AI founder Gary Marcus, Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni and Siri Inc. co-founder Tom Gruber will be the speakers.They will talk about AI’s role in the post COVID-19 era, the

Hanmi Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit against rival Genesem at the appeals court, the company said on Wednesday.The patent court said Genesem used Hanmi’s patents related to vision placement equipment without approval.The court has ordered Genesem to halt production and sales of products th

Hanmi Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit against rival Genesem at the appeals court, the company said on Wednesday.The patent court said Genesem used Hanmi’s patents related to vision placement equipment without approval.The court has ordered Genesem to halt production and sales of products th

LG Uplus is planning to commercialize SIM integrated telecommunication module for use in Internet of Things (IoT) network, the company said.The module will be applied for devices based on NB-IoT and LTE-Cat.M1 networks for use in remote inspection and location tracking, the carrier said.LG Uplus sai

SurplusGLOBAL will hire developmentally disabled people at its semiconductor equipment cluster that will start construction next year in June, the company said.The South Korean company signed an MOU with Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities (KEAD) at its headquarters in Osan to set-

Hyundai Motor Group and SK Innovation will collaborate to foster the electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem, the pair said on Tuesday.The companies will collaborate to foster EV battery sales, lease and rentals, battery management services as well as battery reuse and recycling sectors.They will wo

Samsung Electronics will reportedly halt operations of its TV factory in Tianjin, China, according to local media Ijiwei.The factory will halt operations in late November, the report said. Samsung was discussing compensation with employees and is planning to sell the factory to local OEMs.Samsung ha

China was the largest buyer of smartphone OLED panels in the second quarter of 2020, UBI Research said.China bought 52.5% of the total volume for the quarter, followed by South Korea’s 35% and US’s 8.3%.Chinese companies purchased a total of 30.4 million units of smartphone OLED panels.Samsung Elect