Sung Kyung Kwan University’s (SKKU) Carbonium team has won the grand prize in the fourth Mobius developers content hosted by Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI).Mobius is KETI’s open source IoT platform. It is based on the one M2M standard.Carbonium developed a service that calculates gree

Dreamtech has completed its third factory in Vietnam, the company said on Friday.Construction for the factory started in November last year.The factory is located at Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) at Bac Ninh Province. It spans 22,420 square meters.The company’s first factory spans 18,910

Super capacitor maker Vinatech has set its share offering price for its IPO at 33,000 after wrapping up demand forecasts, the company said on Friday.The company listed on KONEX on 2013 but is expecting to transfer to KOSDAQ.The set offering price is higher than its initial hopes of between 27,000 wo

Flexible display evaluation firm FlexiGO has developed evaluation technology for rollable and slidable displays, the company said on Friday.The South Korean firm specializes in evaluating durability of OLED display panels. FlexiGO checks whether cracks appear on flexible OLED panels when they are fo

LED maker GeunVit (GV) has become a member of UNOPS, the company said.The organization under the UN supplies 20 trillion won worth of goods a year to 170 countries in need.GV will be supplying its early alarm system LED street lamp to UNOPS, it said.The lamps has IP cameras that can detect and alert

Samsung Display has sent a request to the US government for a license to allow it to sell panels to Huawei, TheElec has learned.LG Display, meanwhile, was reviewing the matter, people familiar with the matter said.Last month, the US Department of Commerce made it explicit that foreign-made goods tha

LG Electronics has launched its microLED signage brand called LG Magnit, the company said on Thursday.The company said the brand name its combination of magnificent and nit. The model names will be LSAB, LG said.The signage has micrometer-sized LED attached directly to the board that emits light.Mic

Apple has appealed US Patent Trial and Appeal Boar’s (PTAB) rejection of its invalidation request against Corephotonics.PTAB has rejected Cupertino’s claim that the Israeli firm’s Miniature Telephoto Lens Assembly (Patent No. 9,568,712) was invalid.Corephotonics has used the patent to file two lawsu

Seoul Semiconductor said on Thursday its SunLike light stands will be sold at Costco stores in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.The stand has LED light close to natural light and this will help children during studying and protect their eyesight, the company said.The will also help with sleep, it added

Corephotonics has withdrawn its patent violation against LG InnoTek in South Korea filed in the Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday.This was due the lawsuit being meaningless as validity of Corephotonics’ patents were rejected by South Korea’s IP Trail and Appeal Board (KIPO) in July. LG InnoT

Samsung Electronics will reportedly halt operations of its TV factory in Tianjin, China, according to local media Ijiwei.The factory will halt operations in late November, the report said. Samsung was discussing compensation with employees and is planning to sell the factory to local OEMs.Samsung ha

China was the largest buyer of smartphone OLED panels in the second quarter of 2020, UBI Research said.China bought 52.5% of the total volume for the quarter, followed by South Korea’s 35% and US’s 8.3%.Chinese companies purchased a total of 30.4 million units of smartphone OLED panels.Samsung Elect

Pims, which produces masks used in organic light emitting diode (OLED) production, has set its share offering price at 19,000 won, the company said on Monday.The company commenced its forecast on September 2 to September 3. Around 1.53 million shares, or 76.5% shares on offer, were booked by 1,332 i

Chinese tech giant Huawei is planning to produce around 50 million units of smartphones in 2021, TheElec has learned.This will be a drop of 74% from the company’s expected shipment for 2020.Huawei shared this 2021 target with its South Korean subcontractors, people with direct knowledge of the matte

Optical film company MNTech’s feud with a famous YouTuber over the quality of the company’s retro reflective film used on license plates is escalating, with both sides vowing to go to court.YouTube channel Jang Jin-taek Media Auto last week posted a video alleging that the film prevented plate numbe

LG Electronics CTO IP Park showcased the company’s vision of a good life post COVID-19 pandemic at the company’s press conference at IFA 2020 on Thursday.The South Korean tech company shares its vision called Life’s Good from Home at the conference.Park took to the stage in a prepared hologram and s

Driver IC maker LBLusem will lead a national project to develop a miniLED module, the company said on Thursday.The company will receive 18.4 billion won in funding from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy up to December 2024 to make miniLED display that use local materials and light sources.B

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) and Siheung City will collaborate to build a data center dedicated to managing data from electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, the pair said on Thursday.The pair will collect data of components and driving while EVs are on the road. They will then use tha

Seoul Viosys is developing a photo shower that can disinfect COVID-19 within three seconds, the company said on Thursday.The firm will use its own ultraviolet LED technology called Violeds for the shower.Photon shower works in booths where the subject can stand and photons will be shot to kill any v

Chinese display giant BOE is aiming to ship over 40 million units of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels this year, the company said in its conference call for the first half of 2020.The company shipped 16 million units of 6th generation flexible OLED panels in the first half, it sai