The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at jaemin.ahn@nhqv.com -- Ed.In the first month of the game’s global launch, Com2uS has enjoyed strong sales of Summoners War: Chronicles. The key is to be whether this initial hit has staying power in the global market.Summon
Samsung Electronics’ Foundry Business Division has started volume production of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chips in earnest, starting with foundry orders from Korean fables companies. Thanks to the growing AI chatbot craze fueled by the popularity of ChatGPT, the AI semiconductor m
More than 500 people from the global information technology (IT), consumer electronics and platform industries are participating in the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) that will run for four days from March 20. Participants include mobile and home appliance companies such as Samsung Electronic
LG U+ announced on March 14 that it will provide foreign language chatting services for foreign customers.The foreign language chatting customers service offers four languages -- English, Russian, Chinese, and Vietnamese. It also utilizes Google Assistant-based automatic translation for other langua
Amid sluggish business performances and an economic recession, U.S.-based big tech companies are restructuring. Samsung Electronics’ U.S. semiconductor subsidiary Device Solutions Americas (DSA) also recently laid off employees.According to industry sources in Silicon Valley on March 7 (local time),
In 2022, Hyundai Motor Company subsidiary Motional’s global self-driving competitiveness ranked 5th, up one notch from the previous year. At the top, there was a change in perception, such as the elimination of Argo AI, which went out of business with Nvidia of the United States, and Cruise of Gener
SK Signet has won its first electric vehicle (EV) charger supply contract in the United States from TeraWatt Infrastructure, an EV charge point operator (CPO). TeraWatt Infrastructure is a U.S. unicorn company that has attracted more than one trillion won in investment. The two companies are plannin
The Korean Intellectual Property Office announced on Feb. 19 that the number of super-giant AI-related patent applications in the United States, Japan, China, Europe and South Korea increased approximately 28-fold from 2011 to 2020. Specifically, the number was 530 in 2011 and 14,848 in 2020.The Uni
Korean transport and logistics companies are focusing on Indonesia’s rapid digital economic growth.Hanjin recently turned its Jakarta office into a corporation. According to the company, the decision is because the Indonesian e-commerce market is the largest and fastest-growing in Southeast Asia. Ha
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at kyuha.lee@nhqv.com. -- Ed.At its Galaxy S23 Unpacked event, Samsung Electronics (SEC) announced its partnership with Qualcomm and Google to develop XR devices. Under the partnership, Qualcomm will supply key semiconductor c
Samsung Electronics have joined hands with Google and Qualcomm to develop next-generation extended reality (XR) devices. The specific method of their cooperation has not been finalized. But as Apple is about to release a mixed reality (MR) device within this year, the three companies are banding tog
On Dec. 13, 2022, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted on Twitter a photo showing him at an elementary school in Kumamoto, Japan, along with the message, “Sony is Apple’s partner and has made the world’s best camera sensors.”Kumamoto is the region where Taiwan’s TSMC and Japan’s Sony will build a joint venture
The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and 12 South Korean business groups, including Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, LG, Lotte and Hanwha, hosted Korea Night 2023 in Davos, Switzerland.The event was to help Busan become the venue of Expo 2030. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attended it, too.T
EOFlow Co., a provider of wearable drug delivery systems, has partnered with Diabeloop, a French company developing diabetes automated treatment solutions, to provide patients with convenient access to EOFlow’s EOPatch system combined with an automated insulin delivery (AID) system.EOFlow and Diabel
Samsung Electronics will connect 14 billion Samsung and non-Samsung devices around the world in the upcoming era of hyper connectivity to further enrich user experience, the company's vice chairman Han Jong-hee said in Las Vegas on Jan. 4 (local time).That day, Samsung Electronics unveiled its S
Samsung Electronics executed the largest amount of capital expenditures (CAPEX), including facility investment, in 2021, according to the 2022 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard announced by the European Commission on Dec. 15.Samsung Electronics' CAPEX last year increased by 23.7 percent to
Samsung Electronics’ foundry sales exceeded its NAND flash sales in the third quarter for the first time.The company's foundry sales came in at US$5.584 billion in the third quarter, according to market research firm TrendForce and analysis reports from securities companies. The sales figure is
Google started the world’s first self-driving car development project in 2009. Since then, multiple companies have invested huge money in the technology. Skepticism is increasing nonetheless.Apple recently changed its plan a lot. Previously, the company announced that it would come up with a Level 5
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at jeff.kim@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Uncertainty over production disruptions at Foxconn should dissipate in DecemberOver the past three days, LGI stock fell 9.5%, or 31.3% from its 2022 peak, on concerns over production disruptions at Foxconn’s Zh
Multiple new-generation mixed reality (XR) devices are expected to debut next year. The examples include Apple’s headset, the mass production of which is expected to start in the first quarter. Those also include Sony’s PlayStation VR2, Meta launched the Meta Quest Pro last month, and Meta’s AR glas