LG Electronics CTO IP Park showcased the company’s vision of a good life post COVID-19 pandemic at the company’s press conference at IFA 2020 on Thursday.The South Korean tech company shares its vision called Life’s Good from Home at the conference.Park took to the stage in a prepared hologram and s

Driver IC maker LBLusem will lead a national project to develop a miniLED module, the company said on Thursday.The company will receive 18.4 billion won in funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy up to December 2024 to make miniLED display that use local materials and light sources.B

LG Uplus is collaborating with robotics firm Future Robot to develop a 5G-connected robot that check whether people are wearing face masks, the company said on Thursday.The 5G robot will be tested at H Plus Yangji Hospital.The robot will move around autonomously within buildings to recognize faces,

The advent of hybrid working environment has put pressure on Korean IT leaders to balance flexibility, security and economic feasibility on their edge, HPE Aruba Korea business unit manager Charles Kang said on Wednesday.The company surveyed Korean companies to plan infrastructure in hybrid working

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) and Siheung City will collaborate to build a data center dedicated to managing data from electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, the pair said on Thursday.The pair will collect data of components and driving while EVs are on the road. They will then use tha

DB HiTek said Thursday that it has successfully developed a high-performance microphone based on micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The microphone had a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 65dB, the company said at the online MEMS & Sensor Forum hosted by SEMI.Jung Min-Hyun, a developer at DB HiTek

Seoul Viosys is developing a photo shower that can disinfect COVID-19 within three seconds, the company said on Thursday.The firm will use its own ultraviolet LED technology called Violeds for the shower.Photon shower works in booths where the subject can stand and photons will be shot to kill any v

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to ship over 40 million units of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels this year, the company said in its conference call for the first half of 2020.The company shipped 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half, it sai

US server company Supermicro and Japanese deep learning firm Preferred Networks’ super computer MN-3 has received the top spot in Green500 testing, the companies said.MN-3 scored 21.11 gigaflops per watt on the benchmark test, Supermicro said. Green500 grades based on power efficiency. MN-3 performs

Samsung Electronics has launched a new projector for home cinema called The Premiere, on Wednesday.The high tier version has triple laser technology where different lasers are used for the colors red, green and blue.The budget model has a single laser.The high tier version can project up to a 130 in

Cisco has acquired artificial intelligence software BabbleLabs, which specializes in noise reduction.The technology will be applied to remote conference app Webex, the US company said.

Sales from Open RAN will accumulate sales of up to US$5 billion in the next five years, market research firm Dell’Oro said.Virtual RAN that applies commercial off-the-shelf server on the distributed unit (DU) and central unit will account for between US$3 billion to US$5 billion, the firm said. Over

LG Electronics said on Wednesday its 8K OLED TV has been recognized as the best TV to realize Nvidia’s GeForce RTX Series GPU.The US chip giant demonstrated its new GPU series on LG’s 88-inch 8K OLED model on Tuesday.LG’s Signature OLED 8K has over 33 million pixels and supports 60Hz refresh rate at

LED maker Seoul Semiconductor has won a technology theft lawsuit against its Taiwanese counterpart Everbright in South Korea.The Suwon District Court fined Everbright 500 million won and gave suspended sentences to three of its employees.Seoul Semiconductor had claimed that Everbright acquired its S

Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphone in full on Tuesday.Victor Delgado, Samsung Mobile’s head of enterprise sales and marketing, stressed the app continuity, flex mode and mult-active window features on the new smartphone.Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung’s third foldable phon

LG Electronics will unveil its flagship smartphone for the second half of 2020 on September 14, the company said on Wednesday.The South Korean company has been developing the smartphone, which will have dual screens that revolve, under the code name Wing.In a statement, LG introduced the device as t

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 has a similar surface hardness for its cover window on the main screen as the Galaxy Z Flip, people knowledgeable on the matter told TheElec on Wednesday.Some processes to make the cover windows for the Fold 2 were changed and the surface hardness is slightly improved compa

South Korean battery makers LG Chem, SK Innovation and Samsung SDI saw their market share from January to July double from last year, according to market research firm SNE Research.The three combined had a share of 35.6%, over double that of their share of 15.9% in 2019.Chinese companies combined, h

LG Uplus and partners have started an extended reality (XR) alliance to foster the business in the 5G era, the company said.LG Uplus will be the “Facilitator”, which is equivalent to the chair company, the carrier said, of the Global XR Content Telco Alliance.Canada’s Bell, Japan’s KDDI, China Telec

Broadcom was the number one fabless company in terms of sales in the second quarter, beating Qualcomm, according to market research firm TrendForce.The company had temporarily ceded its top position to Qualcomm in the first quarter.Broadcom saw sales slow due to the trade dispute between US and Chin