SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Thursday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) chip applicable in various household appliances to offer customized services for users. The electronics maker said its AI chip is equipped with neural engine processing cores customized to run deep learning algorithms. LG said the AI chip [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research lab said Wednesday that it has developed a new power semiconductor that can be used in a wide range of next-generation electrical devices and power transmission systems. The new gallium trioxide chip has been tested to have a record-high “breakdown voltage” of 2,300 volts that [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced the world’s highest-resolution image sensor, with 64 megapixels for smartphones, to meet the growing demand for mobile devices with better image quality. Samsung unveiled two new 0.8-micrometer pixel image sensors — the 64-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GW1 and the 48-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GM2, expanding [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will spend 240 billion won (US$204 million) in the next 10 years to develop key semiconductor technologies that can alter the paradigm of the chip industry as a whole, the science ministry said Thursday. The medium-to-long term chip sector growth plan centers around securing know-how in such [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday that it will spend 14.3 billion won (US$12.2 million) in the next three years to help develop artificial intelligence (AI) chips that can be used in self-driving cars. Asia’s fourth-largest economy views autonomous vehicles as one of the industrial sectors for further growth [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has moved its artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Canada to a prestigious institute to bolster efforts to develop advanced technologies applicable to system semiconductors. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) AI Lab, which first opened at the University of Montreal in August [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will make a concerted effort to build up its non-memory chip industry in line with its goal of becoming a global semiconductor powerhouse by 2030, the government said Tuesday. Under the system semiconductor vision strategy, Asia’s fourth-largest economy has set its sights on establishing itself as the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Yonsei University plans to open up a new Department of System Semiconductor Engineering in 2021 that will offer graduates the guarantee of a job at Samsung Electronics Co. The university and Samsung agreed early this week to create the new department and have notified the Ministry of Education. The [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter net dipped 64.7 percent from a year earlier, due to a slump in the global chipmaking business. The net profit for the world’s No. 2 memory chip producer came to 1.1 trillion won (US$952 million) in the January-March period, compared with a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will invest 133 trillion won (US$115.7 billion) by 2030 to expand its non-memory and foundry business to take the top spot in the high-tech and lucrative sector. The world’s largest memory chip maker announced measures to develop the semiconductor ecosystem with increased investment [...]