Samsung Electronics has received UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill validation of Gold level and above for all of its global semiconductor operation sites, the company said on Thursday.Its Austin semiconductor operation received the validation first in January, followed by its five plants in South Korea __

LG Electronics has supplied an ultra-large LED screen to a movie theater in Taiwan, the company said on Thursday.It is the first commercialization of the South Korean hardware maker’s LG LED Cinema Display, LG said.It was installed in at 300-seat movie theater run by local cinema chain Showtime Cine

LG Display has been assigned a national project to develop a stretchable display panel, the company said Thursday.It will take the lead as one of 21 companies and institutions taking part in the project, which is backed by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE).The goal is to produce a s

Global fab equipment spending will grow 24% to reach US$67.7 billion in 2021, research firm SEMI said.US$30 billion will be spent on memory fab equipment with US$29 billion invested in logic and foundry fab equipment, the firm said.Spending into 3D NAND flash equipment will increase 30% this year fr

Partron was developing a 5G embedded telecommunication module using Qualcomm’s modem chip, the company said.It was using the US chip giant’s Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System. Partron will develop two modules, one for sub-6GHz spectrum and another for ultra-high spectrum.They will be made in land gr

LG Chem will sell its Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) polarizer business to Chinese counterpart Shanshan, the South Korean company said Wednesday.The business will be sold for US$1.1 billion, while some products such as LCD polarizer for automobiles will be excluded from the deal and remain with LG Che

SK IE Technology will go public, parent company SK Innovation said Tuesday.The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation and makes separators for lithium-ion batteries. It was formed in April last year after separating from SK Innovation.SK Innovation has sent request for proposals to gl

Hanwha Group has secured a “bridgehead” to enter the US hydrogen market with the successful listing of hydrogen car maker Nikola Motor on NASDAQ, in which it was an investor, the South Korean conglomerate said Tuesday.Nikola listed on the US stock exchange on June 4 and closed its debut valued at US

US sanction against Huawei will likely negatively affect South Korea’s semiconductor industry if the Chinese tech giant faces difficulty in its smartphone production, a South Korean government research institute said.If Huawei is reduced to a mid-tier phone maker from US interference, the company wi

Seoul Viosys has begun online sales of its purifier and sterilizer that comes with its proprietary Ultraviolet (UV) LED technology, the company said Monday.Portable sterilizer VSM+ and air purifier VAC are now available online, the company said. It will be available on 11th Street, Gmarket, Auction,

SK Telecom has invested $20 million in Israeli medical imaging company, the company said.It is in addition to the initial $5 million it made a year ago in Nanox’s seed round, and makes the telco the second largest share holder of the firm, SK Telecom said.The Israeli firm also has Foxconn, FujiFilm

Samsung and LG have withdrawn their complaints filed to the South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) as of Friday, which stemmed from their squabbles over their respective TV advertisements last year.The FTC said it will no longer proceed with the case as both parties have withdrawn. LG withdrew on

Tech Forum will hold a seminar on next-generation displays on June 26, the organizer said Friday.The event will be held at Sapphire Hall on the second floor of FKI Tower in Yeouido, Seoul. Industry experts will share the current development status and trend in: new display technology design, new adh

Dreamtech has developed a diagnostic device that can detect whether a patient has contracted COVID-19 in 30 seconds, the company said Friday.The device was co-developed with Israeli start-up Nanoscent, and uses the company’s electronic nose solution.It detects volatile organic compound from patient’

South Korean display equipment vendor Leading Edge Technology (LET) is gearing up to go public.LET CEO Lee Hong-geun said the company will become an equipment vendor that handle front- to back-end display production, at its KOSDAQ IPO conference at Yeouido, on Thursday.LET was formed in 2001 by ex-L

Samsung Electronics has started a public competition for consumers to make their own artworks using the company’s eco-package for TVs, the company said Thursday.Consumers can turn in pictures of what they made using the packages for the contest, called Eco Pet House Challenge, by June 30. They can a

Samsung Display’s OLED panels have been certified as "Seamless Displays" from verification firm SGS, the company said Thursday.The South Korean display maker’s 90Hz and 120Hz smartphone OLED panels scored blur lengths of 0.9mm and 0.7mm, respectively, in SGS's review.The two panels also marked movie

LG Electronics and LG Uplus has signed a comprehensive agreement with KT to collaborate in AI, the companies announced Wednesday.The three has agreed to share and co-develop core AI technologies, create new products, services and solutions using AI as well as to use AI to solve social issues togethe

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) has developed a new electrode structure with increased durability and decreased performance drop of batteries, the government institute said Wednesday.Previous research focused on replacing metal foils, which are vulnerable to machine deformation, with c

Merck has integrated its recently acquired US firms into its semiconductor solution unit, it said.Versum Materials and Intermolecular will be integrated to Semiconductor Solutions, which will be under its Performance Materials, the company said.Performance Materials complements what each component c