LG Electronics on Friday said in its preliminary guidance that it has posted record fourth quarter earnings.The company also posted record annual operating income in 2020.LG posted sales of 18.7826 trillion won and operating income of 647 billion won in the fourth quarter, a rise of 16.9% and 535.6%

Apple was in talks with Hyundai Motor Group to co-develop electric vehicle together, Hyundai confirmed on Friday.The South Korean automobile maker said it was in the early stages of talks with the iPhone maker and nothing was finalized.There has been reports that Apple was planning to develop its ow

Hanmi Semiconductor has filed a patent lawsuit against Genesem to the Seoul Central District Court, the company said on Friday.Hanmi claimed its rival violated its core technology patents related to its Vision Placement equipment.This is the second time the company has filed a patent lawsuit against

Samsung Electronics on Friday said it has posted sales of 61 trillion won and operating income of 9 trillion won in the fourth quarter of 2020.It is rise of 1.87% and 25.7%, respectively, from the fourth quarter of 2019. It is a drop of 8.9% and 27.13%, respectively, from the previous quarter.Samsun

LG Display said on Thursday that it will show off various display solutions for remote services at the upcoming CES 2021 that starts on January 11.The South Korean display panel maker said the theme of its exhibition will be “Display, now the real world comes to you”.LG Display will showoff its 88-i

System semiconductor design company Coasia and design service firm Hanatec on Wednesday signed a technology and personnel sharing agreement to win global orders together.Both companies are official design solution partners of Samsung Electronics’ Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) alliance.Th

An online petition to South Korea’s Presidential Residence asking for leniency for Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong in his trail have gain over 50,000 signees in three days.The anonymous petition posted on Blue House’s petition page is likely to gain over 200,000 signees by January 18,

LG Electronics have bought a majority stake in US TV data firm Alphonso.The South Korean company said on Thursday it has acquired over 50% share for US$80 million of the TV data and measurement company based in Silicon Valley.Last month, LG announced that it was forming a joint venture with car comp

Oceanbridge said on Thursday that it has hired ex-president of SK Hynix Lee Seok-kyu.Lee joined SK Hynix in 1986 and worked at the semiconductor maker for 30 years. He developed DRAM capacitor technologies and headed the development of NAND process integration at SK Hynix. He was also a professor at

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that company vice chairman Lee Jae-yong held an executive meeting to discuss strategies in 6G and artificial intelligence (AI).Lee was updated on Samsung’s progress in next-generation telecommunication research, server technology and AI application to products a

The worldwide smartphone shipment will increase 9% in 2021 to 1.36 billion units, according to TrendForce.Shipment in 2020 had contracted 11% from the previous year to 1.25 billion units due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the research firm said. The top shippers, in order, were Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Xi

LG Display said on Tuesday that its OLED panel have received certificate from Eyesafe.Eyesafe measures blue light emissions in devices. The certificate is given when out of the total blue light emitted, below 50% is not harmful and out of total visible light, harmful blue light only accounts for bel

LG Display on Sunday said it will showoff a bendable 48-inch Cinematic Sound OLED panel at CES 2021.The panel is aimed at gaming and can be bent by up to 1000R (equivalent how a circle with 1000mm radius is bent).A TV with the panel will be able to switch from flat when used to view media content an

Samsung Display on Sunday said it plans to launch over 10 OLED panels aimed at notebooks this year.The company last year launched 5 OLED panels for notebooks.Samsung Display is expecting to ship five times the OLED panels for notebook in 2021 compared to a year ago due to continued demand for PCs fr

Samsung Electronics on Monday has sent invitation for its Unpacked 2021 event in which it will unveil the Galaxy S21 smartphones.The online event, which comes with the tagline Welcome to the Everyday Epic, will go live on January 14 10am on EST.The unveiling will be live streamed on Samsung Electron

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it will open a COVID-19 clinic at its Icheon campus starting on January 6.The company signed a MOU with Korea University Medicine to run the clinic. Staff from the university will man the clinic. They will run from 9:30am to 5:30pm on every weekdays.SK Hynix employees

Yoo Young-min, former Minister of Science and ICT, has been named chief of staff at South Korea’s Blue House on Thursday.Yoo joined LG Electronics in 1979 and had worked at LG Group for 30 years. He was executive vice president at LG CNS in 2006. He was named the Minister of Science and ICT of Presi

ACM Research has launched alloy anneal capabilities for its Ultra Fn Furnace tool to extend its furnace product line to power device manufacturers. The new feature was added in to meet requirements from insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) devices as transistors get thinner, smaller and faster.T

Smartphones powered by Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics’ 5nm application processors are expected to launch in January 2021.The companies have unveiled their new APs starting in November. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 for flagship smartphones was made with the 5nm process. Snapdragon 678 for mid-tier pho

LG Display on Thursday said it will display transparent OLED panels at the upcoming online CES 2021.The company said the panels have a transparency rate of 40%. LG Display said this was way higher than liquid crystal display’s (LCD) 10% and the panels are glass clear.LG Display said it will show off