Samsung Electro-Mechanics has developed five new multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for automobiles, the company said.Three of them are for vehicles’ powertrain system and two others are for anti-lock braking systems (ABS), Samsung said.Ceramic capacitors allows electricity to flow consistently an

Intel has unveiled its latest cable interface Thunderbolt 4 on Thursday.It supports the same 40Gbps speed as its predecessor Thunderbolt 3. The speeds of Thunderbolt 1 and 2 were 10Gbps and 20Gbps, repectively.Thunderbolt 4 will support a pair of 4K displays (or one 8K display), PCIe speeds have bee

LG CNS has formed a task force dedicated to application modernization, TheElec confirmed on Friday.The task force is consists of 450 employees who will oversee application modernization business, technology and execution.Application modernization is the process of modernizing existing legacy applica

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it will invest 12.35 billion into 12 future technology projects run by local universities.The company has been investing in such projects under the Samsung Future Technology Fostering Program since 2014.It chose six areas to provide funding in for 2020 __ semicon

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G mobile platform on Wednesday.The US chip giant said CPU and GPU speed has increased 10% from Snapdragon 865.Data transfer rate has increased to 3.6Gbps from 1Gbps of is predecessor.The CPU uses Qualcomm Kryo 585 Prime Core. It also offers speed of 3.1GHz,

Synopex will merge with cable maker Flontec, the company announced in its filings to financial authorities on Thursday.Last year in March, Synopex secured the rights over the technology and sales for Flontec’s ePTFE (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene) membrane business and burrowed equipment to opera

Samsung Electronics has launched two new models __ HW-Q950T and HW-Q900T __ in its Q-series soundbar, the company said on Wednesday.They will be launched in Australia first on Wednesday and expanded to other markets. Sales in South Korea will begin on July 14.The HW-Q950T delivers the audio quality

LG Chem and GS Caltex will partner up to create a new electric vehicle (EV) service that uses big data, the companies said.The pair will also collaborate with Signet EV, Soft Berry, KST Mobility and Green Car to first develop a battery safety inspection service that uses big data collected during ch

LG Electronics has marked 493.1 billion won in operating profits in the second quarter, better than market expectations and mostly thanks to its home appliance business.The company said its revenue for the quarter was 12.8 trillion won. It is a drop of 17.9% in revenue and 24.4% in operating profits

Leader Systems, Nvidia’s distributor in South Korea, will offer a 90days free trial for vGPU software Remote Work With NVIDIA (RWWN), it said on Tuesday.The virtual GPU software will allow tech works to perform graphic-intensive work remotely, Leaders Systems said.It will provide resources to PCs as

ON Semiconductor will supply Danfoss with high powers IGBTs and diodes for inverter traction modules, the companies announced.The US chip maker will produce the power components at its 300mm wafer factory in New York and 200mm wafer factory in Bucheon, South Korea, for the supply to Danfoss Silicon

LG Chem has announced that it will maintain its carbon emission rate in 2019 all the way up to 2050.The plan, dubbed 2050 Carbon Neutral Growth, aims to reduce its expected carbon emission rate of the namesake year by 75%.It will react to climate change, use more reusable energies, recycle its resou

Samsung Electronics posted 8.1 trillion won in operating profit and 52 trillion won in revenue in the second quarter, the company said in its earning guidance on Tuesday.Operating profit rose 22.73% from a year prior and 25.58% from the previous quarter. Revenues dropped 7.36% year over year and 6.0

LG Display’s organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TV has received the Flicker Free Award from TUV Rheinland, the South Korean company said.This means LG’s OLED panels from 44 to 88 inches has all received the certificate from both the German standard firm as well as US counterpart Underwrit

LG Electronics has launched the LG Nanocell AI ThinQ TV, model name NANO87, in South Korea, the company said.The TV received level 1 in energy efficiency, which makes it eligible of up to 10% rebate of the purchasing price capped at 300,000 won from the Korea Energy Agency. It is the company’s secon

A South Korean research team has discovered a way to increase semiconductor integration by a thousand times, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology’s (UNIST) Energy and Chemical Engineering professor Lee Jun-hee and his research team has also reached

LED flip chip maker Semicon Light has received the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949 certificate, the company said on Friday.IATF 16949 is based on ISO 9001 and was standardized to meet customer demand fro the automobile industry. The certificate is given to those who pass the quality

Semiconductor and display equipment maker STI has been chosen as KOSDAQ Rising Star by the Korea Exchange, the company said on Thursday.The Korea Exchange has been selecting Rising Star companies since 2009 to promote KOSDAQ. A total of 34 companies were chosen this year.They are chosen by a committ

Qualcomm has launched Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ System-on-a-Chip (SoC) for use in smartwatches, the company announced.The SoCs were made using the 12-nanometer process and uses ARM Cortex A53 (1.7GHz). They use the Adreno A504 as the graphics processing unit. It supports LPDDR3 memory.The US ch

Kolon Industries will show off its components for hydrogen fuel cell at a tradeshow in South Korea.The company will display its proton-exchange membrane (PEM), membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and water management devices at H2 Mobility+Energy Show 2020 at KINTEX, Ilsan from Wednesday to Friday.Kol