Chinese battery makers are expanding their production of pouch batteries and are planning to supplying them to major automobile companies, TheElec has learned.China’s largest battery maker CATL is planing supply them to Daimler for their new electric vehicles, people familiar with the matter said on

KT is launching a new Wi-Fi 6 standard router aimed at the home, the company said on Wednesday.Router maker Mercury is providing the routers.Called GiGA WiFi Home ax, or GWH ax, the routers will go on sale on August 31 and have a data processing speed of 1.2Gbps.KT’s previous home router had a speed

APS Holdings’ paper on fine metal mask (FMM) has been published Journal of Society for Information Display (SID), the company said on Wednesday.The company said its president Chiwoo Kim’s paper FMM was published on the August issue of the prestigious journal.Kim introduced material and laser pattern

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that its smart TV has received the Tried and Tested Accreditation from the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).The South Korean tech giant has been collaborating with the RNIB since 2013 to increase accessibility of TVs for those who are visuall

Yujin Robot has launched a new 3D scanning LiDAR sensor for indoor autonomous driving, the company said on Wednesday.The YRL3 Series, with one channel, can scan 270 degrees horizontally and 90 degrees vertically.This will allow it to have no blind sports and perform accurate mapping, the company sai

South Korean battery equipment makers are expecting large orders in the second half of 2020 as major battery makers are expected to up their investments.Local battery makers __ LG Chem, SK Innovation and Samsung SDI __ are expected to invest billions of dollars to expand their facilities during the

LG InnoTek CEO Jeong Cheol-dong has been named the eighth executive chairman of the Korea Association for Photonics Industry Development (KAPID), the association said on Tuesday.Jeong said, as the new chairman, he will form a network for collaboration within the photonics industry, expand remote con

Hanmi Semiconductor has launched its new Flip Chip Bonder-5.0 aimed at high-end semiconductor production, the company said on Tuesday.It is the fifth generation in the series of bonders. The fourth generation model was launched three years ago.Flip chip bonders are used to connect circuits when a se

SK Siltron has developed a recycling technology in which 95% of the wasted slurry in semiconductor wafer production can be reused, the company said on Tuesday.The technology was co-developed with Korea University of Technology and Education and Cleansolution.Slurry used to flattened the unnecessary

KT is launching Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live wireless earphones exclusively in red, the company said on Tuesday.The company is also the only one providing the Galaxy Note20 in red color in South Korea.

SK Telecom is upgrading the fronthaul standard on its 5G network, TheElec has learned.Starting sometime in the first half of 2020, the telco has began upgrading its common public radio interface (CPRI) fronthaul standard to Ethernet-based CPRI, or eCPRI on equipment made by Samsung and Ericsson.Upgr

Jahwa Electronics is planning to sell its camera module factory in Vietnam.The company’s Chinese counterpart Sunny Optical has been chosen as the preferred buyer, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Tuesday.Jahwa build the factory at Vinh Phuc Province back in 2007. The factory has produ

Samsung Electronics said it expects to ship over 100,000 units in total by August for TVs that have screen sizes of 75-inch or larger, the company said on Tuesday.The company launched a new commercial for its QLED 8K TV model.Samsung showed off how a big screen can be best when viewing movies in the

LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

The shipment of OLED panels for smartphone nosedived in the second quarter of 2020 to 87 million units, UBI Research said on Monday.It is a fall of 23.1% from the same time period a year ago and a drop of 17% from the first quarter of 2020.The shipment decline came from low shipment of rigid OLED pa

Ace Technologies is taking part in the contract making project given by a global telecom equipment maker based in Europe, TheElec has learned.The South Korean telecom component maker was chosen as a joint development manufacturer, or JDM, by the European telecom equipment maker late last year as wel

Seoul National University professor Hong Yong-taek has won the 17th Merck Award at International Meeting of Information Displays (IMID), Merck Korea said on Monday.The price is given for academic papers in display technology. The award was set by IMID and hosted by Korean Information Display Society

Huawei has installed a pilot base stations that has 5G super uplink and downlink carrier aggregation technology applied in China, the company said on Monday.5G super uplink uses time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) methods together.Carrier aggregation, as it name suggests,

Samsung Electronics will apply its S Pen stylus to the Galaxy S21 smartphone series launching next year, TheElec has confirmed.It will mark the first time for an S series smartphone to have the stylus.The S Pen stylus has been the distinguishing point for the Galaxy Note series. Samsung is yet to de

SK Telecom said Sunday that its blockchain-based authentication app Initial has been synced with Samsung’s counterpart Samsung Blockchain Keystore.It will make the carrier app, a decentralized identifier service, even safer, the carrier claimed.Personal key will be saved on Samsung’s keystore in Sam