LG Electronics on Thursday sent out invitations for its press conference at CES 2021.The South Korean tech firm said the theme of its conference will be Life is ON – Make yourself @ Home.Its press conference will start at 8am on January 11, US Eastern Standard Time. The event also been shown on LG’s

ITM Semiconductor will manufacturer the batteries that will be used in LG Electronics’ new smartphone launching next year, TheElec has learned.ITM Semiconductor has previously mostly assembled battery packs for Samsung’s mobile division. It also supplied Samsung with its battery protection circuits.

LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it will collaborate with Assa Abloy to launch automatic doors using transparent OLED panels.Assa Abloy, based in Sweden, makes doors, mechanical door locks, digital door locks and automatic doors. It has supplied its automatic doors to airports in London, Spain

LG Electronics has unveiled a new robot that kills germs with ultraviolet lamps.The new robot will be displayed at 2020 Korea Electronics Show in COEX from December 9 to 12.The robot uses ultraviolet-C (UV-C) lamps on its sides to kill germs. UV-C has wavelengths between 100 to 280nm which can kill

Audio system-on-a-chip (SoC) fabless firm Iron Device said on Tuesday that it has supplied its piezo speaker amplifier technology to Lenovo for their high-end monitors.The company supplies its SMA6101 amplifier for the piezo speaker for LG Electronics’ G8 smartphone last year. It supplied its SMA150

LG Electronics has scrapped many of its core teams within its mobile business, TheElec has learned.The company also formed a new team overseeing the original design manufacturer (ODM) operation.LG’s mobile business is called Mobile Communication (MC) Company by the firm. Teams that have been scrappe

LG Electronics said on Thursday that it will display its LG Signature OLED 8K TV at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.The TV will be displayed there up to next year, the company said.It will also provide the TVs for the American Ballet Theater in the US, as it did in 2019.LG will also collaborat

Semicon Light will license out its patents related to flip chip to Chinese LED maker HC Semitek.The South Korean company will began earning royalties within the year.The Chinese companies have requested for the license in October. It was gain access to around 250 patents.HC Semitek is China’s second

LG InnoTek was in talks with a Chinese company to sell its LED production equipment and patents, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker had said in October that it plans to exit the LED business.The company internally decided to sell the LED business back in 2019. The business has post

LG Group said on Thursday that it will split off four of its companies and form a new holding company that will manage them.Out of the 13 subsidiary of LG Corp, the group’s holding company, LG International, LG Hausys, Silicon Works and LG MMA will split off and go under the new holding company. Pan

LG Electronics said on Wednesday its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) co-developed with Jaguar Land Rover was named the best connected technology by European automobile media jury Autobest.The IVI system won the SMARTBEST award 2020 by the jury. The system is on Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover.Autob

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

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

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

LG Electronics will run an experience zone for its rollable OLED TV at The Conran Shop at Lotte Department Store in Gangnam.The premium UK lifestyle shop house around 300 living brands. LG OLED R will be displayed at the VIP zone of The Conran Shop.LG OLED R has a rollable OLED screen that rolls dow

LG Chem is expected place orders soon from South Korean equipment makers for kits to place at its factory run by Ultium Cells, its joint venture with General Motors.The Korean battery has already sent letters of intent (LOI) to major supplies in September.First orders will be placed this month at th

Samsung Electronics has topped Apple in smartphone sales in the US in the third quarter, according to Strategy Analytics.It is the first in three years __ the Korean tech giant previously beat Cupertino for the top spot in the second quarter of 2017.Samsung sold 10.4 billion smartphones in the quart

Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other major TV vendors are planning to launch miniLED TVs in 2021.MiniLED TVs will likely makeup the premium segment of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, which is still the dominant technology in the global TV market.MiniLED is being touted as the next-generat

LG Chem will invest US$500 million more into its factory at Nanjing, China.The South Korean energy giant held an investment ceremony with officials of Nanjing city at Yancheng during a local tradeshow.LG Chem currently operates two factories at Nanjing. The second factory is being expanded from its

LG Electronics was planning to expand the use of original design manufacturer (ODM) for its smartphone production next year, TheElec has learned.The company started using ODM in 2018 __ around 10% of handsets made that year was produced by contract makers. This increased to 30% in 2019 and will expa