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SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two largest chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, have completed preparations to supply Nvidia with next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4), positioning themselves for what is expected to be a pivotal year in the fast-expanding AI memory market. Samsung recently finished its final performance review — known as PRA — [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics said Thursday that its summer energy-saving campaign encouraging consumers to set their air conditioners to 26 degrees Celsius yielded significant reductions in electricity consumption and user costs. The “ThinQ 26°C Challenge,” run jointly with the Korea Energy Agency, urged households to adopt what the government considers the optimal [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Consumer Agency on Thursday advised shoppers to closely check portability, processing speed and other core performance indicators before purchasing a laptop, after releasing comparative test results on five popular models launched this year. According to the agency, LG Electronics’ 16Z90TS model was the lightest among those tested, with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics convened a workshop in Seoul on Thursday with the Eclipse Foundation and major global automakers to accelerate the development of open-source software for software-defined vehicles (SDVs), part of the company’s broader push to expand its automotive solutions business. The event — the Eclipse SDV Community Meetup — brought [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday hinted at a new Exynos application processor (AP) widely expected to power the upcoming flagship Galaxy S26 smartphone. The South Korean tech giant uploaded a clip titled “The next Exynos” on YouTube, featuring the Exynos 2600. Exynos is the company’s proprietary mobile chipset. APs, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group said Wednesday it has unveiled its first mass-produced mobility robot platform, designed for various industrial and everyday applications, at a major robotics exhibition in Japan. The group, whose major affiliates include Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp., showcased the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED) at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence–powered home appliances have rapidly moved from novelty to necessity in South Korea, with online reviews of such products increasing more than 250-fold over the past five years, according to new industry data. A study released Wednesday by CEO Score, a corporate data research firm, found that reviews of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’ next-generation dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) GDDR7 has won a presidential award during a major tech exhibition for its cutting-edge technology optimized for the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the company said Wednesday. The South Korean tech giant said its 24-gigabit GDDR7 DRAM was given the prize during [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will provide 100 billion won (US$68.1 million) in support by 2030 for research and development (R&D) projects aimed at advancing core ceramic technologies, a key material for semiconductors, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The funding plan comes as part of a comprehensive road map on fostering the [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Koreans say they feel unsafe about the risk of personal data breaches, reflecting rising anxiety amid a surge in hacking incidents and expanding digital services, according to new government data. The latest Social Survey from the National Data Office shows that 57.6 percent of respondents last [...]