Intel’s Mobileye has received regulatory approval to test automated vehicles in German roads.The chip giant’s self-driving subsidiary received the permission with the assistance from local independent technical service provider TÜV SÜD, the company said.Mobileye has previous performed testing in clo

Wipam has set its KOSDAQ initial public offering (IPO) share price at 11,000 won, the company said on Monday.It will be seeking 81.7 billion won in funding from the listing.Wipam will get the retail orders from July 21 to July 22. It will list on KOSDAQ on July 31.Its market value will be 408.6 bill

SK IE Technology has begun mass production of flexible cover window (FCW) made out of colorless polyimide films (CPI), the company said on Monday.The firm constructed the FCW factory at Jeungpyeong, North Choongcheong Province, late last year.FCW is SK’s own brand for CPI. The company applied hard c

Schneider Electric will invite small- to mid-sized enterprises (SME) to its factory in Iksan, South Korea to showoff its smart factory success.The company said it will began supplying its smart factory solutions to South Korean SMEs. They will be invited next month to its Iksan factory for demonstra

LG Electronics will attend the upcoming IFA 2020 tradeshow in Germany, the company said on Friday.The South Korean tech giant will be holding a press conference at the opening day of the show that will run from September 3 to 5.LG’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) IP Park will introduce the company’s

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant for auto-components in Busan, Samsung said on Thursday.Lee visited site to inspect operations and encourage employees, the South Korea tech giant said.The vice chairman he

South Korean distributor Beecheon will sell Polytex Technologies’ automated textile management system for clean room and other work garments, the company said on Thursday.Workers can retrieve and dispense their work garments with an ID card for the system. Thanks to the cards, managing personnel are

Seoul Semiconductor has claimed that Everlight lied about its patent lawsuit win at a German court.Seoul Semiconductor said that patent EP1697983, which the Taiwanese company said it won a patent invalidation suit against, did not belong to the South Korean company. The company said it was not the s

South Korea’s largest semiconductor and display equipment maker Semes have given rewards to its top suppliers, the company said on Thursday.The ceremony was hosted by Semes CEO Kang Chang-jin with CEOs from 21 of its suppliers in attendance.Semes said it kept social distancing measures and invited f

Samsung Display has commenced live broadcasting at the business and division level to share its management goals with employees, the company said on Thursday.The South Korean display maker minimized offline meetings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic but expanded such as online meetings to expand in-

South Korean telcos will invest between 24.5 trillion won to 25.7 trillion won in 5G networks by 2022, the companies said.SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus made the announcement together with the Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday.However, the figure amounts to an annual CAPEX of 8.2 trillion won to

AMD has announced the new new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processor line-up aimed at workstations, on Tuesday.The highest tier AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX among the four (3995, 3975, 3955 and 3945) has 64 cores.AMD said its GPU performance was 37% higher than Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8280.The comp

Laser company LIS has won a 31.5 billion won order from Chinese display giant CSOT for organic light emitting diode (OLED) equipment, the company said on Wednesday.The deal is equal to 21.77% of its 2019 sales. The contract will expire on August 17.In May, LIS won a 48 billion won order from BOE for

Display equipment maker Youngwoo DSP will supply 30.8 billion worth of organic light emitting diode (OLED) inspection equipment to Chinese display maker CSOT, the company said on Wednesday.The deal is equal to 30.7% of its annual sales last year. The contract will last from July 14 to August 20.Youn

Analog Devices will acquire Maxim Integrated Products in an all-stick stock transaction worth US$20.5 billion.It is the second largest deal in the semiconductor industry __ Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom for US$37 billion in 2016.It is also Analog’s second large acquisition. It bought Linear T

Samsung Electronics will hold its sixth Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup (SCPC), the company said on Tuesday.University students in any major can apply for the cup at Samsung Research’s homepage by August 18.The first and second preliminary rounds will commence on August 21 and September 5, respec

STMicroelectronics and Fingerprint Cards will develop an advanced biometric system-on-card (BSoC) solution for contactless payment card, the companies said.The cards will have fingerprint sensors embedded in them that will allow payments to be made without the need for app connections or passwords b

DB HiTek CEO and president Choi Chang-sik has been promoted to vice chairman, DB Group said.Choi, born in 1954, graduated from Seoul National University with Mater and Bachelor degrees in Material Engineering and joined DB Metal. He then moved to Samsung Electronics and worked there for 29 years, be

Wearable camera start-up Linkflow will display its goods at a showroom at its company building for enterprise customers, the company said Friday.Nexx360 and Fitt360 will be on display at the showroom in Yangjae, Seoul. They will also demonstrate real-time video conference using the devices. Four cha

Samsung Electronic will spend 100 billion on in funding to support semiconductor and display research in South Korean universities, the company said on Monday.The company formed an industry and academia collaboration center back in July, 2018 to help research and create jobs in universities. It bega