Cowin Tech said on Tuesday that it has supplied 4 billion won worth of production automation equipment to a South Korea battery maker.The deal is equivalent to 4.4% of its 2019’s full year sales of 91.1 billion won.The kits are used for the customer’s smart factory investments. Cowin Tech said it wa

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that one of its executives responsible for development of boards will win the top price at KPCAshow2020 (Int'l Electronic Circuits and Packaging Show.Kim Eung-soo, vice president at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, won the Minister Prize given by the Ministry of T

SK Materials will form a joint venture with JNC of Japan to enter the OLED materials market.The company said on Tuesday that it was acquiring 48,800 shares for 2.44 billion won of its subsidiary SK JNC, the join venture with JNC.SK Materials will first wholly own the joint venture, than offer its sh

Iljin Composites have been named the fuel tank supplier by Hyundai Motor for its hydrogen electric trucks.This is the third order that Iljin has won for hydrogen cars from the South Korea automobile giant.Iljin had supplied fuel tanks for Hyundai’s Tucson electric vehicle in 2014. It was the exclusi

ISC will produce its own 5G antenna film materials.The company’s flexible copper clad laminate (FCCL) was nominated for funding funding by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the company said on Tuesday.ISC will receive around 2 billion won in funding in the next two years.ISC will use a dir

Samsung’s Galaxy Note20 Ultra was the best selling 5G smartphone in September, according to market research firm CounterPoint.However, Samsung models combined accounted for 11.9% market share out of the top ten best selling 5G smartphones.Huawei models together took 16.4% market share.Huawei’s P40 P

LG Electronics has launched a new laser projector that supports 4K resolution.The new Cinebeam Laser 4K Projector has what LG calls triple screen adjustment.The projector can adjust the lens top, bottom, left and right. The screen can be expanded by up to 1.6 times. The screen can be extended or con

Semicon Light has bee named in a national project to develop high output, large surface ultraviolet LED.It is one project among the Ministry of Science and ICT’s 2020 Innovative Challenge Projects. The project include control system for intelligent and autonomous disinfection robots, intelligent and

LG Electronics said it was promoting its OLED TV with Lady Gaga in New York.A LED billboard in Times Square has been showing Lady Gaga’s new music video for her song 911. At the end of the video, LG OLED and LG are shown.Earlier, LG unveiled a video of the pop star and music video director Tarem Sin

Dreamtech will begin producing its electronics nose solution that can detect whether someone has contracted COVID-19 in 30 seconds next year.The company said on Friday that it has wrapped up trials.The electronic nose was co-developed with Israeli firm Nanoscent, It can check whether a patient has c

AMD has launched the Radeon RX6800 series for gaming.The series comes in two models __ Radeon RX6800 graphic ard and Radeon RX6800 XT which supports 4K resolution. They will cost US$579 and US$649, respectively.They are made based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture.Cycle efficiency per computing unit can be

Kolon Industries will begin production of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) used in hydrogen fuel cells next year.The company will begin construction of the PEM production line at its factory in Gumi this month, it said.The customer is likely Hyundai Motor Company.Kolon said the building of the PEM

EcoPro EM, the join venture between EcoPro BM and Samsung SDI, has started construction of its cathode factory on Wednesday.The company held a groundbreaking ceremony for the factory, called CAM6, at Pohang. The factory will produce cathode exclusively for Samsung SDI. It will take be built on 760,0

TSE said on Wednesday it has won the patent lawsuit filed against it by another South Korean company.The Supreme Court invalidate patent related to soft elasticity owned by the unnamed South Korean company. Soft elasticity is a method that makes the area of the rubber socket where the chip package b

Powerlogics has received Hyundai Motor Group’s standard quality (SQ) certification through car component maker SL Mirrortech.It will allow Powerlogics to supply car components for the automobile maker.Powerlogics is better known as a camera module supplier for smartphones to Samsung Electronics.The

ISC said on Wednesday that it has won a patent lawsuit against a competitor after four years for court battles.ISC first filed its suit against its rival for patent violation and requested damages. The competitor hit back with a patent invalidation lawsuit.ISC said it has won the suit in the Supreme

Seoul Semiconductor has won its patent lawsuit against in Philips in Germany.The South Korean company has now won all four lawsuits it filed against Philips there.Seoul Semiconductor won an order of a permanent injunction and recall against Philips from the district court in Dusseldorf.The court sai

APS Holdings said on Tuesday that it will c-develop digital X-ray with the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI).ETRI will transfer its digital X-ray generator technology to APS under the deal.APS will use the technology to develop the x-ray for use in battery inspection, high

LG Electronics has increased the TV production rate at its factory in Mexico by 30% from the same time period a year ago to better meet demand from year’s end sales event in North America, the company said on Monday.Its factory in Reynosa, in the state of Tamaulipas, was running at full capacity, th

MK Electron said on Monday that it has posted 8.6 billion won in accumulated operating income and 347.4 billion on in accumulated sales up to the third quarter.It is a rise of 156% and 38%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago.It is its highest quarterly performance in seven years __ i