Samsung Electronics’ subsidiary Harman has acquired a Silicon Valley-based automotive technology company.Savari has technology on 5G edge and vehicle-to-everything communications (V2X), Harman said.The company offers V2X sensor solutions and edge-based analytics for automotive and smart infrastructu

LG Electronics said on Monday that it will begin global launches of its 2021-model OLED TVs.The TVs will come in six series with 18 models in total. Eleven models launching in South Korea will be over 70-inch in size.The six series are G, C, B, A, R and Z series.G series is what LG calls OLED Galler

SK Innovation had asked the White House to overturn a ruling by the US federal trade commission last month, according to The Wall Street Journal.The South Korean battery maker told the Biden administration that the International Trade Commission’s 10-year import ban on it would cause it to abandon i

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it was supplying its 10x optical zoom folded camera module to a global smartphone manufacturer.The company didn’t name its customer but it is highly likely Samsung Electronics and the modules are being on the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone.Optical zoom allo

Hanwha Corporation on Friday said it has posted sales of 59.92 trillion won and operating income of 1.58 trillion won for the entire year of 2020.It is a rise of 1% and 40.5%, respectively, from 2019. Annual net income increased by 220%.The holding company of Hanwha Group said the growth was thanks

Qualcomm said on Thursday that a slew of global brands have launched devices powered by its wireless audio solutions.The companies are: Audio Technica, AVIOT, Bang & Olufsen, Belkin, Cambridge Audio, Cleer, Earin, Edifier, Glidic, Jabra, JVC, Kakao Enterprise, Naver, Marshall, Sennheiser and Yamaha.

NXP on Thursday announced its integrated time-sensitive networking (TSN) solutions for industrial automation.The solutions support CC-Link IE TSN protocol, which combines gigabit Eternet bandwidth with TSN to strengthen time sharing communication, performance, security and functionality for industri

Intel and Google Cloud on Tuesday said they will collaborate on developing telco cloud reference architectures and solutions.These will allow telcos to accelerate the deployment of virtualized RAN and open RAN solutions, the pair said.They will also allow service providers to innovate for cloud nati

Kioxia and Western Digital announced that they have developed their Gen 6 162-layer 3D flash memory.The latest chip, thanks to a new architecture beyond the conventional eight-stagger memory hole array, has up to 10% greater lateral cell array density compared to the Gen 5, the pair said.The new fla

Kolon Industries said on Thursday that it has posted 4.03 trillion won in sales and 152.4 billion won in operating income for the entire year of 2020. It is a decline of 8.4% and 11.8%, respectively, from 2019.For the fourth quarter alone, the company recorded sales of 1.14 trillion won and operatin

Xilinx on Tuesday announced a new family of network interface cards (NIC) for data centers.Alveo SN1000 is the industry’s first family of “composable” SmartNICs, the company said.Based on the Xilinx 16nm UltraScale Plus architecture, the SN1000 family of SmartNICs are powered by the low-latency Xili

Iljin Electric said on Wednesday that it will supply 60.1 billion won worth of power line to Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).The lines will be used by the national utility to supply power produced at Dangjin Thermal Power Plant on west coast to Godeok Samsung Industrial Park at Pyeongtaek,

South Korean battery equipment maker Mplus said on Wednesday that it has clinched an order worth 26 billion won for battery equipment from China’s Evergrande.The company’s contract with Yangzhou Evergrande Neoenrgy Technology Development will last until August 21 this year.Evergrande Group is planni

South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Wednesday ordered Hyundai Motor to voluntarily recall all its Kona EV units that use batteries manufactured by LG Energy Solution.In total, 26,699 units will be affected by the recall, including Ioniq electric SUV and electric buses.Bat

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said it was launching its newest image sensor, Isocell GN2, which has upgraded autofocus features.The new sensor comes with Dual Pixel Pro technology, which splits some of the pixels diagonally instead of just vertically. Samsung said it was the first to apply this tec

Iljin Materials said on Tuesday that it has begun supplying 2 micrometers ultra thin copper foils to Samsung Electronics.They are used for semiconductor packaging.Japanese companies such as Mitsui previously dominated copper foils that are 2 micrometers-thin but Iljin began development of them in 20

Analog Devices and Volvo Cars said on Monday that Volvo XC40 Recharge pure electric SUV will feature Analog’s ICs that support battery management system (BMS) and Automotive Audio Bus (A2B).The ICs will traveling distance per a single charge, the pair said.It can be applied to hybrid and pure electr

Posco Chemical on Tuesday said it has commenced the fourth expansion of its cathode plant at Gwangyang.The company will spend 275.8 billion won to add 30,000 metric tonnes in annual production capacity.Construction will be completed in 2023 and the plant will manufacture high-nickel NCMA (nickel, co

LG Display said on Tuesday that is has developed large-sized oxide thin-film transistors (TFT) for digital X-ray detectors (DXD).It is the display panel maker’s first foray into medical X-ray market.TFT in DXD is used to convert the X-ray images into digital files to send to PCs. It is a core compon

SK Innovation said on Monday that it will sell shares of its subsidiary SK Global Chemical to a strategic investor.JP Morgan was overseeing the sales. SK Innovation currently has 100% ownership over SK Global Chemical. It is willing to sell up to 49% of its stake and will retain managerial rights ov