Samsung Electronics will supply 15,000 units of TVs for the visually impaired and hearing impaired, the company said on Tuesday.It is for a government project to help low-income families and those who are disabled.Samsung will supply 40-inch Full HD smart TVs, it said, with accessibility strengthene

Seoul Semiconductor will supply its SunLike brand of LED to Japanese company Koizumi Lighting Technology, the South Korean company said on Tuesday.SunLike touts natural lighting, close to those from the Sun. Seoul Semiconductor claims it protects children’s eyesight, helps people concentrate and sle

Samsung SDI has posted operating profits of 103.8 billion won and revenues of 2.5586 trillion won in the second quarter of the year.It is a fall of 34% and increase of 6.4%, respectively. Still, operating profits were higher than South Korean analysts’ consensus of 60 billion won.The battery busines

Ansys has launched its latest simulation-driven design toll Ansys Discovery, the company said.It is an updated version of the Ansys Discovery Live launched in 2018. Simulation technology on the new tool has also been upgraded compared to the company’s Pervasive Engineering Simulation launched last y

LG Display will hold its first Open Innovation Forum to showoff potential application for its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels at the home.The company will invite those from the construction, furniture and interior industry to seek potential collaboration areas, LG said on Monday. The them

Leaders Systems has opened a demo center Nvidia’s DGX A100 artificial intelligence (AI) equipment, the company said on Monday.The center, dubbed the AI Universal Demo Center, will allow customers to tryout testing and proof of concept. Leaders said it has prepared various hands-on program do that cu

LG Electronics has launched the 48-inch OLED TV (48CX) in South Korea.The TV will cost 1.89 million won. It was launched in Europe and Japan last month.LG said the TVs were sold out in the first week at those countries and it was expanding the sales to Korea backed by that popularity.The TV boasts a

LIS has posted 6.8 billion won in operating profits and 74.9 billion in sales in the second quarter of 2020, the company said.It is a rise of 102% and 89%, respectively, year over year. The OLED equipment maker, for the first half of 2020, has secured 11.2 billion won in operating profits and 127.6

Corning has unveiled its new glass dubbed Gorilla Glass Victus that will be applied first to a Samsung smartphone.The company said it can handle drops of 2 meters without damage.Victus also has double the scratch resistance to its predecessor Gorilla Glass 6.Competing glasses can handle drops of up

SK Hynix expects demand for memory chips will be weak in the second half of 2020 as it predicts an inventory readjustment period, the company said on Thursday.After the market hits bottom, it will recover substantially by the first half of 2021, the South Korean memory maker said its its conference

LG Display has posted operating loss of 517 billion won in the second quarter, the company said on Thursday.However, the company said it saw panel shipment increase for mobile and TVs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a 12% increase in sales to 5.3 trillion won.Loss for the quarter was wors

Flexible transparent electrode maker MSWay has been chosen as the leader in a national project develop building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) technology, the company said on Thursday.The project will last four years and seven months and will be provided 12.2 billion won in public funding.Gwangju I

JNTC will be supplying the 3D cover glass for a European premium vehicle launching next year, the company said on Thursday.The company said it finished preparation to ship its 47-inch 3D unibody cover glass.JNTC built a pilot line for glasses aimed at cars back in 2018. It built a commercial product

Samsung Display, together with the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, will help companies apply smart factory solutions, the company said on Thursday.It will take applications from July 27 to August 26. So far it has provided 42 companies with such support in the past three years.Samsung Display will sh

SK Hynix has posted 1.9467 trillion won in operating profits in the second quarter, a rise of 205% year over year, the company said on Thursday.It beats South Korean analysts’ consensus of 1.7 trillion won.The memory maker posted 8.6064 trillion won in sales, a rise of 33% from a year prior. Its net

ACM Research has developed the new Ultra C VI single wafer tool, the company announced on Wednesday.The latest addition to the company’s Ultra C leaning system, boasts 18 cleaning chambers. This is six more champers than the Ultra C V system and 50 percent expansion on throughput.ACM has also optimi

Investment into semiconductor equipment this year will rise 6% from the previous year’s US$59.6 billion to US$63.2 billion this year, SEMI said.This will grow in further to over US$70 billion next year, which will be the highest ever to date, the organization said.Wafer fabrication equipment will se

Samsung Electronics will give 36.5billion won as incentive payments to 23,000 employees of its suppliers, the company said on Wednesday.It is the conglomerate’s largest payment for the first half of the year to date.It chose 297 tier 1 and tier 2 subcontractors that met its goal of productivity and

LG InnoTek has posted higher than expected earnings in the second quarter of 2020 thanks to its camera module supply for Apple’s iPhone SE and strong performances of its semiconductor and display substrate businesses.The company posted 42.9 billion won in operating profits and sales of 1.5399 trilli

Synopex said Wednesday it is expanding its eco-friendly water treatment technology licensing business with Doosan Heavy.The pair signed a zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology licensing agreement last year. The two companies will expand the application of the technology to more business areas.Synop