The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Standing as the first medical AI solutions provider to have acquired MFDS approval in Korea, VUNO is to further strengthen its position in the domestic medical AI market, which remains in an earl
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hwdoh@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Share prices are climbing in the global semicon equipment sector in anticipation of a US executive order to resolve semicon supply shortage issues. Going forward, semicon investment in the US is to ac
The authors are analysts of Shinhan Investment Corp. They can be reached at chank@shinhan.com and johnsoh@shinhan.com, respectively. -- Ed. Non-memory test service providerTesna provides wafer probe test, package test, and backend services. Tests are mainly for SoC (system on chip), CIS (CMOS image
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for bribing ex-President Park Geun-hye in a trial held at the Seoul High Court on Jan. 18. He was arrested in court.The arrest of the Samsung Group heir came in 1,079 days since he was released on prob
GOT7 decided on Jan. 11 not to extend its contract with JYP Entertainment from Jan. 19. Then, the stock price of the entertainment company fell 4.23 percent. This year is the seventh year of the contract and GOT7, which sold more than 450,000 albums last year, has become another one of many K-pop id
Samsung Electronics will convert one of its DRAM fabs into a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) line in 2021. By doing so, the global semiconductor giant will ramp up its production capacity of CISs by about 20 percent."Orders for CISs of more than 108 million pixels a
Samsung Electronics posted the highest ever TV market revenue share in the third quarter of 2020. LG Electronics also finished second with increased sales, beating Chinese companies.According to global market research company Omdia, a total of 62.87 million TV units, valued at US$28.15 billion, were
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. They can be reached at jaemin.ahn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Covid-19 has facilitated the spread of Industry 4.0 throughout our daily lives. Today, many of us are truly living our lives online. Evolving from the O2O model, an online-oriented world is pre
The proportion of Korean parts used in Apple's latest smartphone iPhone 12 is higher than that of U.S. parts.The Nihon Keizai Shimbun of Japan reported on Nov. 21 that a breakdown of the iPhone 12 by Formalhaut Techno Solutions in Tokyo showed that Korean parts took up the largest proportion of
Market research firm Counterpoint Research released a list of the most popular smartphones on Nov. 18. The list covers market shares as of the end of July this year in the eight countries including the United States, China and India.In China, the world’s largest smartphone market, Apple iPhone 11 wa
An OLED TV under US$1,000 has appeared in the TV market. Vizio, a U.S. TV manufacturer, recently started a promotion for a 55-inch 4K OLED TV that is sold at US$900 at Best Buy, the largest retailer in the United States. The model was sold for US$1,300, but consumers can buy it at a 31 percent disco
Samsung Electronics was ranked second in the smart home patent application rankings in the world in 2020. LG Electronics placed fifth ahead of big-name competitors such as Google, Apple and Sony.Samsung made 909 applications to take the second spot in the 2020 Global Smart Home Invention Patent Rank
LG Electronics' OLED TVs have been selected as the "Best TVs of 2020" by Consumer Reports, a leading U.S. consumer media outlet.Two of the four Best TVs of 2020 announced by Consumer Reports were LG OLED TVs (the 65C9 and 65CX models).Consumer Reports gave the LG OLED TV models the highest score
For the 10th consecutive year, Samsung has been selected as the most favored brand among Russian consumers.Samsung ranked first in the 2020 Top 20 Brands list recently announced by Russian brand market research firm Online Market Intelligence (OMI).Samsung came in with 17.9 percent of the votes. How
U.S. restrictions on Huawei are having an adverse impact on Sony while providing an opportunity for Samsung Electronics.The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Oct. 28 that Samsung is increasing its presence in the global smartphone image sensor market, where Sony’s share amounts to over 50 percent. Th
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee died at the age of 78 at 3:59 a.m. Oct. 25 after over six years of suffering from acute myocardial infarction.The late chairman became the head of Samsung Group in 1987 after the death of his father and founder Lee Byung-chul. He boosted the market capitaliza
Samsung Electronics is closely trailing Sony, the No. 1 mobile image sensor maker. It is gradually narrowing the market share gap based on its micro-fabrication fine process technology and high-value-added products with more than 64 million pixels.Samsung Electronics accounted for 16.7 percent of th
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hwdoh@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Hyperscalers are expected to resume their data center investment from 4Q20. Smartphone makers are to continue accumulating inventory in 4Q20. And, consumers are giving warm responses to recently annou
Samsung Display and LG Display are showing different moves in the LCD market.Samsung Display is planning to close down its LCD business by end of this year and concentrate its capabilities on the quantum dot (QD) OLED business. LG Display is employing a two-track strategy — LCD displays for IT devic
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at hwdoh@nhqv.com. -- Ed. During pre-orders for the Sony PS5 on Sep 18, available supply quickly sold out. Server DRAM prices are expected to drop by 15% q-q due to reduced data center investment in 4Q20; however, consumer pro