Samsung Electronics on Friday started sales of Galaxy A32 in South Korea.The 4G LTE version of the phone costs 374,000 won. Samsung said the phone has a 90Hz refresh screen and minimal design.Galaxy A32 sports a 6.4-inch screen and has a U-shaped notch for the front camera.On its rear, the phone as

LG Energy Solution said on Friday that it will spend over 5 trillion won by 2025 in the US market.The money will be spent on expanding its battery production capacity in the key market.Its joint venture with General Motors will also decide on investing in their second factory within the first half o

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that its Neo QLED TV received the Eye Care "Tested" certification given by German standard association Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE).The Korean tech giant received the certification for its Neo QLED TVs as well as 2021-model QLED TVs __ their model nam

Battery equipment manufacturer CIS said on Thursday that it will be expanding its production facilities.The company will expand its first factory at its headquarters by 60% __ or an additional 1,800 meter-square. The plan was approved in a board meeting on March 3.CIS saw a huge jump in orders last

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday launched a new solid-state drive (SSD), called NVMe SSD 980.It is the company’s first consumer SSD that is NVMe interface based.The Korean tech giant used its Gen-6 V-NAND for the SSD. It offers up to 3,500 and 3,000MB/s sequential read and write speeds, respectively

Infineon Technologies said on Tuesday that it has provided its CoolGaN device to Delta’s rectifiers.Its GaN devices follow JEDEC standards and has lifetimes over 15 years, the German company said.This makes it fit for industrial telecom and server SMPS, the company said.CoolGaN 600 V e-mode HEMT in

LG Display CEO Jeong Ho-young has been named the new chairman of Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA).He is the eighth chairman of the association and was named to the post on Tuesday, a KDIA spokesperson said.Out of around 190 members of the association, a hundred sent their written approval o

LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it will be offering various benefits for consumers in South Korea who buy an OLED TV at offline stores by April.Those who buy LG Signature OLED 8K will get up to 2 million won worth of benefits.For consumers who buy a 77-inch OLED TV, if they buy an additional 5

Samsung Electronics will hold an unveiling event for new Galaxy A smartphones for the first time next week.The company said on Wednesday that it will hold an online event called Samsung Galaxy Awesome Unpacked on 10am March 17 (US EST).It will likely unveil the rumored Galaxy A52 and A72 smartphones

LG Electronics said on Tuesday that it has won a patent infringement lawsuit against TCL in Germany.The Mannheim Regional Court ruled in favor of LG on March 2, finding that TCL has infringed the South Korea company’s standard essential patent EP 2 627 146 B1 related to LTE technology.LG filed three

Worldwide revenue from organic light emitting diode (OLED) increased only increased 0.7% in 2020, according to market research firm UBI Research.This was due to price drops of smartphone OLED panels, which cause revenue increase to be less than shipment increase, the firm said.Global OLED revenue hi

Hanwha Corporation and Hanwha Systems were received the awards by Korea Exchange for excellences in public disclosures.The Korea Exchange said the two companies shared information quickly and accurately, which allowed them to strengthen communication with shareholders.Hanwha Corporation received the

Posco and SK Global Chemical said on Monday that they will co-develop new composite materials to make automobiles lighter.The pair will develop materials that can be used to manufacture battery packs, in light of the expansion of the global electric vehicle market, they said.The companies will also

SK Innovation said on Sunday that it will be selling its stake in a US shale oil field.It will stake and related assets in Oklahoma and Texas to BenchMark Energy.The deal will be completed within this month. The pair signed the contract for the deal in January. The terms of the deal were not disclos

LG Display on Sunday talked up the benefits of OLED TV technology on a new clip promoting Disney’s upcoming movie Raya and the Last Dragon.The 30 second clip posted on YouTube is trailer for the movie shown on an OLED TV.Disney also used OLED TV for its promotional event on March 4.LG Display and Di

SK Hynix begun mass production of 18GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, the company said on Monday.The chips will be supplied to Asus for ROG(Republic of Gamers) 5 gaming smartphone.SK Hynix said the new chip can run at up to 6,400Mbps, which is 20% faster than its predecessors that supported to up to 5,500Mbps.

Samsung Electronics will begin sales of its mid-tier Galaxy A42 5G smartphone in South Korea on Friday.The smartphone packs a 6.6-inch screen, quad camera and a 5,000mAh battery. It has what Samsung calls a layered pattern design on its back cover.The cameras on its back are 48MP main, 8MP ultra wid

Hana Technology said on Friday that it will issue 100% bonus shares.Existing shareholders will get one free share per existing ordinary share.The company will issue 3.51 million shares for free __ it will have 7.27 million shares in total afterwards.The shares will be issued on March 23 and listed o

Merck said on Friday that it will be changing the name of its performance materials business to electronics.The name change was part of its strategic realignment for the past couple of years, the company said. It was part of its Bright Future program that started in 2018, Merck said.“The renaming of

South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have very different ideas on how much the latter to should pay the former to settle their ongoing lawsuit over trade secret.LG is seeking a payment of around 3 trillion won; while SK is seeking to pay less than 1 trillion won, people f