Japan Display (JDI) will sell a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) factory and the land it sits on to Sharp for US$390 million, the company announced on Friday.The company also said it will sell the equipment at the Hakusan LCD plant to an “overseas customer” for US$285 million, JDI said. The customer in

KT has developed a new short range 3D LiDAR sensor that takes tenth of the cost to make compared to counterparts, the company claimed.The sensor has 24 sensing layer by controlling the laser with software, the carrier said.It also has artificial intelligence (AI) software that will recognize whether

Display repair equipment company Charm Engineering has collected 5.15 billion won in cash dividends from subsidiary Charm Savings Bank, the company said on Friday.Earlier in June, Charm Engineering has said it has secured additional shares of its banking subsidiary. Currently, the company has an 85.

Philenergy, a subsidiary of Philoptics, said on Thursday it has won 80 billion won in order for electric vehicle (EV) battery equipment.It is a rise of 578% from last year.The amount includes the 25 billion won it has won on the month of August.Philenergy attributed the increase to its newly develop

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) sad on Thursday that it has developed a transparent window-shaped solar battery.Luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) technology has been applied to the battery, KETI said.LSC are transparent plates with nanometer-sized phosphors in them. Some sun light a

Synopex will acquire a factory in Vietnam previous owned by the now defunct Flexcom, the company said on Thursday.The company said it signed the contract to acquire the factory with Woori Bank Vietnam and Vietnam TP Bank. The factory was being auctioned by its creditors.The factory, dubbed Flecom Fa

Cisco and Lotte Data Communication has built a new network for Lotte Group based on SD-WAN solutions, the companies said on Wednesday.Cisco’s SD-WAN, or software-defined wide-area network, was designed support Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that exploded from cloud, unlike previous WAN, th

Samsung Display will call its smartphone hole display technology Iris Ring, the company said on Wednesday.Hole-in display is used to place the front camera in the hole to reduce notches.The company said it received the Hole Area Clarity verification from the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for no col

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that its smart TV has received the Tried and Tested Accreditation from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).The South Korean tech giant has been collaborating with the RNIB since 2013 to increase accessibility of TVs for those who are visuall

Yujin Robot has launched a new 3D scanning LiDAR sensor for indoor autonomous driving, the company said on Wednesday.The YRL3 Series, with one channel, can scan 270 degrees horizontally and 90 degrees vertically.This will allow it to have no blind sports and perform accurate mapping, the company sai

LG InnoTek CEO Jeong Cheol-dong has been named the eighth executive chairman of the Korea Association for Photonics Industry Development (KAPID), the association said on Tuesday.Jeong said, as the new chairman, he will form a network for collaboration within the photonics industry, expand remote con

Hanmi Semiconductor has launched its new Flip Chip Bonder-5.0 aimed at high-end semiconductor production, the company said on Tuesday.It is the fifth generation in the series of bonders. The fourth generation model was launched three years ago.Flip chip bonders are used to connect circuits when a se

SK Siltron has developed a recycling technology in which 95% of the wasted slurry in semiconductor wafer production can be reused, the company said on Tuesday.The technology was co-developed with Korea University of Technology and Education and Cleansolution.Slurry used to flattened the unnecessary

Samsung Electronics said it expects to ship over 100,000 units in total by August for TVs that have screen sizes of 75-inch or larger, the company said on Tuesday.The company launched a new commercial for its QLED 8K TV model.Samsung showed off how a big screen can be best when viewing movies in the

LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

The shipment of OLED panels for smartphone nosedived in the second quarter of 2020 to 87 million units, UBI Research said on Monday.It is a fall of 23.1% from the same time period a year ago and a drop of 17% from the first quarter of 2020.The shipment decline came from low shipment of rigid OLED pa

Seoul National University professor Hong Yong-taek has won the 17th Merck Award at International Meeting of Information Displays (IMID), Merck Korea said on Monday.The price is given for academic papers in display technology. The award was set by IMID and hosted by Korean Information Display Society

Hanmi Semiconductor has accrued 2020 unit sales for its vision placement equipment, the company on Wednesday.The equipment are used to clean, dry, inspect, select and load semiconductor packages.Hanmi began producing them back in 1998. A company spokesperson said the company had an 80% global market

South Korean gallium nitride (GaN) epiwafer start-up IVWorks has signed a technology transfer agreement with its US counterpart IntelliEPI, the company said.IVWorks will supply IntelliEPI with its 8-inch GaN-on-Si (silicon) epiwafer and 6-inch GaN-on-SiC (silicon carbide) epiwafer made from its mole

Samsung Electronics will run pre-orders for its Galaxy Tab S7 series from August 18 to 22 for South Korea, the company said on Friday.The regular Galaxy Tab S7 comes with a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) for the first time for a flagship tablet. It has used LCD for Tab S7 Lite launched earlier this ye