Samsung Electronics is in quandary over when to start the operation of semiconductor plants under construction at Xian, Shaanxi Province in China and at Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province in Korea and which semiconductor items to produce in these new plants. If memory chips are additionally produced in t

KT Corp. announced on Oct. 15 that it has signed a comprehensive IPTV consulting agreement with Triple T Broadband, a Thai broadband company.The No. 1 IPTV service provider in Korea, KT will provide consulting services in all areas of the IPTV business including IPTV platform configuration, device d

Samsung Electronics is leading the trend towards bigger TVs with its premium QLED TVs. The 70-inch or larger premium TV market is growing globally every year. In Samsung Electronics' TV sales, the proportion of 70-inch or larger TVs jas eclipsed that of 50- to 59-inch TVs.TVs with a 70-inch or l

A patent troll is targeting Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics with regard to touch screens of smartphones.The non-practicing entity (NPE) that has filed a patent infringement suit against the two Korean companies, has already secured a favorable position against Apple in a similar patent lawsui

Samsung Electronics is hot on the trail of Sony in the global image sensor market. The company is employing a two-track strategy of developing technology ahead of competitors and expanding its market share by increasing price competitiveness.The company is accelerating its move to take control of th

Market researcher IHS Markit has raised its estimate of 8K LCD TV panel shipments for 2019 by 12.9 percent from its first quarter forecast of 347,000 units to 38,700 units.IHS Markit said that it has revised up its forecast because Samsung Display is expected to significantly ramp up 8K LCD TV panel

Laptop manufacturers are launching new form factors one after another. For example, Asus recently released the ZenBook Pro Duo, which has a touch screen on its keyboard panel. Microsoft is about to release the Surface Duo.The Surface Duo was unveiled on Oct. 2 along with several Surface smartphones

The National Radio Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and ICT announced on Oct. 13 that South Korea’s big data-related standardization plan has been approved as an international standard by the Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) an

The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Oct. 13 that it sent a delegation of nine experts to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42 meeting in Tokyo that took place from Oct. 7 to 11.At the conference, the delegation proposed a standard on AI-related

Patent trolls are jumping into the patent wars related with organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) as the global OELD display market is growing rapidly.The growth of the OLED market is being led by South Korean display companies. LG Display Co. announced in July a plan to make an additional investmen

Samsung Electronics introduced its state-of-the-art foundry process portfolio including automotive semiconductor solutions at the Samsung Foundry Forum 2019 Munich held in Germany on Oct. 10 (local time).The forum attracted 40 percent more fabless customers and partners in Europe than last year’s ev

Along with 5G and system semiconductors, Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, has chosen quantum dot (QD) displays as Samsung’s future growth engine. Lee announced a 13 trillion qon investment plan in the next-generation display technology to turn the tide for the Korean display indus

LG Display Co. is accelerating its shift from liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels as profitability of its LCD business is worsening due to a steady drop in LCD prices.The proportion of LG Display’s OLED sales in its total sales is expected to be only 17

Samsung Electronics nabbed first place in the global gaming monitor market (scan rate of 100 Hz or higher) in the first half of this year with a market share of 17.9 percent, up 5.0 percentage points from the same period last year, market research firm IDC said on Oct. 9. The company took first plac

The growing popularity of the Galaxy Fold is raising expectations of Samsung Display as the proportion of the display in the total price of components in the foldable phone is more than two times higher than existing models.It is difficult to churn out foldable displays in a short period of time, bu

Chinese display producers, which have massively rolled out low-priced products to dominate the global liquid crystal display (LCD) panel market, are struggling as LCD panel prices have plunged. They cannot even survive without the Chinese government’s subsidies.Chinese display companies, such as BOE

Samsung SDS announced on Oct. 9 that it has been named as Korea’s representative blockchain operator by Forrester, a global information technology (IT) advisory group.Forrester picked out Korea's Samsung SDS, China's JD Cloud, Japan's NTT Data, and Thailand's IBM as the representativ

Samsung Electronics Co. is considering making an additional investment in its second semiconductor plant which is under construction in Xian, Shanxi Province, China. However, the company is caught in the middle of the trade dispute between the United States and China.Samsung Electronics is planning

LG Display announced on Oct. 7 that it will showcase about 20 high-tech products, mainly OLED displays, at the 19th Korea Display Exhibition (IMID) 2019 to be held in COEX, Seoul for four days from Oct. 8."We will show off our technological leadership by presenting premium products such as OLED TVs

Samsung Electronics announced on Oct. 8 that the operating profit of its IT and mobile (IM) division, which is in charge of the company’s smartphone business, is estimated at 2 trillion to 2.5 trillion won (US$1.67 billion to 2.09 billion) in the third quarter of this year. The figure increased up t