Competition is getting fiercer among CMOS image sensor (CIS) producers. Samsung Electronics recently introduced a new ISOcell image sensor with 200 million pixels featuring latest technologies. Following the release of a 100 million-pixel image sensor in 2022, SK Hynix, a latecomer in the image sens
LG Electronics announced that its Tennessee plant built in 2018 has shown a component productivity improvement of 20 percent, along with a 60 percent decrease in defective product ratio.The company has produced front-loading and top-loading washers at the plant since 2018. Its dryer production line
Doosan Group is better prepared in the nuclear power plant and hydrogen sectors than any other company in the world, the group's chairman said in his New Year’s message to employees on Jan. 1.“Although a tougher business environment is expected in 2023, let’s look for growth opportunities in the
HL Mando and its autonomous driving subsidiary HL Klemove will participate in CES 2023, the world’s largest IT exhibition to run from Jan. 5 to 8, 2023, to showcase their mobility technologies.HL Mando will introduce differentiated future vehicle technologies at the Flexible Move Zone, while HL Klem
DL E&C announced on Dec. 21 that the company has completed the Tuas Terminal 1 sea landfill project in Singapore.Singapore is currently working on the Tuas Terminal project to create the world's largest port. When all four phases of the project are completed by 2040, it will be reborn as a super
Hyundai Mobis has teamed up with Ottopia, the global leader in teleoperation software, to develop an end-to-end remote mobility assistance solution that enables the commercialization of autonomous mobility.Hyundai Mobis’ Remote Mobility Assistance (RMA) is a platform for autonomous and automated veh
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. With most domestic cathode materials players having adopted Kornic Automation’s automated inspection solution (K-LAS), related sales are set to rise in line with capacity expansion at these clien
Coupang hosted U.S. and Korean government officials at its Daegu Fulfillment Center (FC) on Dec. 7 to discuss the company’s latest contributions to the Korean society. The event was attended by Philip S. Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, and officials from the government and lo
The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) announced on Dec. 4 that South Korea’s exports are expected to reach an all-time high of US$690 billion this year. The previous high is US$644.4 billion, which was recorded last year. The monthly exports have topped US$50 billion for 20 months in a ro
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at midas.sohn@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Due to factors such as inflation, interest rates, liquidity crunches, and war, 2023 is to be a year of uncertainty. Given such external variables, earnings volatility at small/mid-cap companies i
The author is a strategist of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at lawrence.kim@nhqv.com. -- Ed. With the Covid-19 pandemic retreating, people are finally returning to the streets and resuming their normal daily lives. However, through the pandemic, the economy is now experiencing brisk
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at seongjin.kang@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Maintain BUY, target price of KRW220,000 From Nov 13 to 18, we participated in HMC’s U.S. marketing tour (Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles) to look into the progress of the company’s major businesses in the
The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at soohong.cho@nhqv.com. -- Ed. Through our recent visit to HMC’s US plant, we confirmed both the growth potential of its future-oriented businesses (Boston Dynamics, Motional) and its improved competitiveness in the current U
Amorepacific announced on Nov. 17 that it has won two Innovation Awards at CES 2023. The company has won the CES Innovation Awards for four consecutive years.The company won an Innovation Award in the robotics category with Authentic Color Master by TONEWORK, a solution for a smart customized makeup
Coupang succeeded in turning a profit in the third quarter of this year, the first profit in eight years since the e-commerce giant introduced a “rocket-speed” delivery service in 2014.According to an earnings report submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Nov. 10, Coupang
Neubility, a Korean autonomous robot company, and Goggo Network, a European logistic operator of autonomous vehicles and robots, have signed an MOU to strengthen autonomous logistics solutions based on robots. The two enterprises plan to strengthen collaboration in bringing innovation to robot-based
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has developed a rapid, automated molecular diagnosis system integrated with a non-face-to-face specimen collection robot. The new system can collect specimens at the medical sites using a specimen collection robot in a non-face-to-face manner to
The author is an analyst of KB Securities. He can be reached at joonsop.analyst@kbfg.com. -- Ed. Maintain BUY, target price of KRW44,000 We maintain BUY and TP of KRW44,000 on KT. The company should maintain its upward trajectory through 2023, propelled by its non-telco DIGICO business and steady wi
The Ultra-Broadband Forum 2022 raised its curtain today in Bangkok, with David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the board and chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, delivering a keynote speech titled Stride to Ultra-Broadband 5.5G. During this speech, Wang outlined the enormous c
Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) has broken ground on its new electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturing facility in the United States.A groundbreaking ceremony for the plant, dubbed Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA), was held at the site in Bryan County, Ga., on Oct. 25 (local time) with