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SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has made a bold statement at Gamescom 2024, the world’s largest gaming exhibition, by unveiling a range of cutting-edge gaming monitors. The event, running from August 21 to 25 in Cologne, Germany, has attracted about 1,400 hardware, software, and game content producers. In its largest exhibition space to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, said Wednesday it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) data center using Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPU) in December. SK Telecom will join hands with U.S. GPU cloud provider Lambda to transform its existing data center in Seoul into an AI [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Sapeon Korea Inc. and Rebellions Inc., two artificial intelligence (AI) chipmakers in South Korea, have signed a formal merger agreement. In June, the two companies said they sought a merger as they seek to improve competitiveness in the global market for AI chips. The merged entity will be named [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean game developer NCSOFT Corp. said Monday it will begin global service of its new game title, Throne and Liberty (TL), in partnership with Amazon Games in October. NCSOFT initially planned to start the global service Sept. 17 but shifted the launch date to Oct. 1 to better [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bold vision for the future of television technology, Samsung Electronics is betting big on artificial intelligence to transform the viewing experience and revolutionize home connectivity. Yong Seok-woo, President of Samsung’s Visual Display Business, announced on August 15 that the company aims to “open up new experiences with AI [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean telecom giant KT Corporation has announced a breakthrough in corporate networking technology with its new “lightweight 5G business network” solution. The company revealed on August 15 that this innovation aims to alleviate the burden of infrastructure construction for businesses and public institutions. The 5G business network service is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics is taking its OLED TV technology beyond the living room and into the realm of high art in a bid to capture the growing Southeast Asian market. In a recent exhibition at the Lotte Mall West Lake Hanoi, which attracts about 1 million visitors monthly and is one [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – In the first half of this year, LG Display’s sales of panels for information technology (IT) devices such as tablets and laptops surged, comprising over 40 percent of the company’s total revenue. This significant growth is largely attributed to the timely supply of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government is set to deploy a substantial semiconductor ecosystem fund starting in the third quarter of this year, targeting fabless chip design companies for scale-ups and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This move is part of a broader strategy to expand the country’s semiconductor value chain beyond memory [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Pay, a leading digital payment service in South Korea, announced on Wednesday that it has ceased sharing user information with Alipay since mid-May, following a controversial breach involving the unauthorized disclosure of personal credit data. In a statement, Kakao Pay revealed that the suspension of information sharing began on [...]