Display equipment maker Invenia has clinched a 65 billion won supply deal with HKC of China, the company said on Friday.The amount of the deal is level with that of its sales for the first half of 2020, which was 66.9 billion won.The contract will last until August 19.Invenia’s main good its its dry

Maxim Integrated has launched two new smartphone super-charging chips, the company said on Wednesday.They are MAX77958 and MAX77962. MAX77958 supports USB-PD 3.0 and offers up to 100W of power. It supports two USB ports.MAX77962 has a high-power field effect transistor and offers 28W charging in hal

LG Uplus has launched a new loss and damage insurance for premium smartphones that Galaxy Fold was eligible for, the telco said on Thursday.The carrier said the plan was 6% to 9% cheaper than competitor’s. It was also cheaper than insurance plans offered by smartphone makers.LG Uplus stressed that i

Samsung Electronics has succeeded in applying 3D stacking technology on extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-based 7 nanometer (nm) chips, the company said on Thursday.The technology is called eXtended-Cube, or X-Cube, and stacks the SRAM on top of the logic die.It uses Samsung’s through silicon via (TSV) tech

Kolen was developing three 64MP lens, the company said on Thursday.It was following request from a major client, the lens maker said. It didn’t name its client.Kolen is a supplier to Samsung Electronics. The South Korean tech giant has used 64MP lens for its premium smartphones last year and expandi

Taiwanese industrial network firm Moxa has launched the new MC-1220 series of edge computers, the company said on Thursday.The MC-1220 series come with Intel core i7, i5 and i3 with multiple extended interface. It supports hardware accelerators like VPU.They also support Intel OpenVINO tool kit used

Seoul Viosys and University of Ulsan have developed a diagnostic tool that can detect cancers in pet with a responsiveness of 95%, the company said on Thursday.The pair used Viosys’ Violeds LED technology that uses ultraviolet light.They used it to compared blood samples of healthy pets and those wi

SKC will secure a 100% stake in its subsidiary SKC Solmics, the company said on Wednesday.SKC will buy 42.3%, equivalent to 25,972,532 shares, stake of SKC Solmics through tender offer and comprehensive share swap to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, it decided in a board meeting.The public takeove

SK Hynix has invested in a US Start-up that provides Reduced Instruction Set Compute-V commercial core.SiFive raised an additional US$60 million in funding from SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco, Reuters reports. Existing investors Intel, Qualcomm and Western Digital also joined the funding round.A SK Hynix

Synopex has posted an operating loss of 800 million won and sales of 92.6 billion won in the first half of 2020, the company said on Tuesday.The company stressed that sales were higher than the 80.5 billion won in 2019 in the same time period despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Synopex said

Samsung Display announced on Wednesday that it has adopted its Adaptive Frequency technology on the Galaxy Note20 Ultra that can save 22% more in panel power consumption.Adaptive Frequency is the brand name given Samsung Display’s low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TF

Laser equipment firm Philoptics have posted two straight quarters of profits as of the second quarter of 2020.The company posted 7.6 billion won in operating profits and sales of 67.9 billion won in the second quarter, the company said on Tuesday. It is a return to profit and an increase of 278%, re

Semiconductor technology that helps remote work in light of the COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise.Netherlands start-up Aura Aware and STMicroelectronics recently developed a distance measuring mobile device that uses time of light (ToF) technology. ToF uses the time it takes for a light to bounce bac

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics has won awards for the energy efficiencies in their TVs from an award event hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the ministry said on Monday.The event, called Energy Winner Awards, was co-hosted by Consumers Korea, a local consumer protection N

South Korean semiconductor IP firm Chips&Media has signed a technology licensing agreement with an unnamed US semiconductor giant, the company said on Monday.Chips&Media will provide its IP in semiconductors for automobiles and industrial robots to the unnamed client, which was among the top ten sem

Samsung Electronics has opened Galaxy Studios for customers to try out its latest Galaxy Note20 series smartphones in South Korea, the company said on Monday.It will open five such studios at hot spots in Seoul.These place will have measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Samsung said.They will

SKC will begin producing blank masks used in semiconductor production in the first quarter of 2021, the company said on Friday.They will be for the high-end semiconductor market and they were being tested by an unnamed client, the company said. SKC will aim to get certification for commercialization

AMD has record its highest quarterly market share in x86 CPU in the second quarter since the fourth quarter of 2013.The US chip giant controlled 18.3% of x86 CPU in the second quarter, according to Mercury Research on Thursday. The company has a share of 10.6% back in the third quarter of 2018.AMD c

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 Plus platform with 5G connectivity has been applied to the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy Note20 series on Wednesday.The platform will power the Note20 series’ South Korean version. The Galaxy S20’s version of South Korea were also powered by Qualcomm solutions.Galaxy Z Fold

Cammsys said on Thursday that it is supplying the camera modules for Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note20 series smartphones and Galaxy Z Fold 2 at Vietnam.The company was producing the 10MP camera module for the front cameras on the Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra as well as the 12MP Ultra Wide