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

LG Chem will invest 235 billion won to reestablish environmental safety standard in all its production sites worldwide, the company said on Monday.The announcement follows the company’s announcement in May that it will ensure zero safety issues going forward.LG Chem aims to have zero environmental a

DB HiTek has promoted two new employees to executives, the company said on Monday.Park Sang-kwon and Han Sung-jin has been named vice presidents. Park worked at LG Semiconductors and Hynix Semiconductors and worked on marketing and strategy before joining DB HiTek in 2009. He will oversee planning i

Pims, which produces masks used in organic light emitting diode (OLED) production, has set its share offering price at 19,000 won, the company said on Monday.The company commenced its forecast on September 2 to September 3. Around 1.53 million shares, or 76.5% shares on offer, were booked by 1,332 i

Qualcomm announced on Thursday at the IFA tradeshow its second generation Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform aimed at notebook PCs.The US chip giant touted the ARM architecture based processors’ low power, 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) performances.The chip will allow notebook PCs

LG Electronics CTO IP Park showcased the company’s vision of a good life post COVID-19 pandemic at the company’s press conference at IFA 2020 on Thursday.The South Korean tech company shares its vision called Life’s Good from Home at the conference.Park took to the stage in a prepared hologram and s

Driver IC maker LBLusem will lead a national project to develop a miniLED module, the company said on Thursday.The company will receive 18.4 billion won in funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy up to December 2024 to make miniLED display that use local materials and light sources.B

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) and Siheung City will collaborate to build a data center dedicated to managing data from electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, the pair said on Thursday.The pair will collect data of components and driving while EVs are on the road. They will then use tha

Seoul Viosys is developing a photo shower that can disinfect COVID-19 within three seconds, the company said on Thursday.The firm will use its own ultraviolet LED technology called Violeds for the shower.Photon shower works in booths where the subject can stand and photons will be shot to kill any v

Samsung Electronics has launched a new projector for home cinema called The Premiere, on Wednesday.The high tier version has triple laser technology where different lasers are used for the colors red, green and blue.The budget model has a single laser.The high tier version can project up to a 130 in

LG Electronics said on Wednesday its 8K OLED TV has been recognized as the best TV to realize Nvidia’s GeForce RTX Series GPU.The US chip giant demonstrated its new GPU series on LG’s 88-inch 8K OLED model on Tuesday.LG’s Signature OLED 8K has over 33 million pixels and supports 60Hz refresh rate at

LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has won a technology theft lawsuit against its Taiwanese counterpart Everbright in South Korea.The Suwon District Court fined Everbright 500 million won and gave suspended sentences to three of its employees.Seoul Semiconductor had claimed that Everbright acquired its S

LG Electronics will unveil its flagship smartphone for the second half of 2020 on September 14, the company said on Wednesday.The South Korean company has been developing the smartphone, which will have dual screens that revolve, under the code name Wing.In a statement, LG introduced the device as t