The latest technology news coverage. We bring you the latest information on what is happening in Korea today.
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will hold its largest exhibition of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the southeastern port city of Busan this week to showcase latest technologies and models and to discuss the future of the industry, the industry ministry said Wednesday. Drone Show Korea 2023, the seventh edition of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants have joined hands to expand the simple payment ecosystem with the impending launch of Apple Inc.’s mobile payment service Apple Pay in the domestic market, Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest mobile phone maker, and Naver Financial Corp., a financial arm of leading portal operator [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it will cooperate with U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. and local robotics platform developer Integrit to develop an open-type robotics data platform. The three-party open robotics platform project aims to develop a standardized platform that can share and process data [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will manufacture advanced automotive semiconductors for U.S. chip design company Ambarella. Samsung will produce the Santa Clara-based chip company’s automotive AI central domain controller CV3-AD685, using its 5-nanometer (nm) process technology. Ambarella’s CV3-AD685 System-on-Chip (SoC) is used for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, which [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of monthly users of the U.S. social media network Facebook, once the most popular social media service for Korean users, has been on a downward trend for several years. Facebook’s domestic monthly active users (MAU), based on data from both Android and iOS devices, stood at 10,056,845 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is actively using a Chinese mobile game to highlight the performance of its latest Galaxy S23 series. The South Korean tech giant recently installed “Genshin Impact,” an online role-playing game from Chinese video gaming company miHoYo, on the Galaxy S23 devices it displayed at its domestic [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Competition is heating up to dominate super-giant artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which is the foundation of services such as the wildly popular ChatGPT from OpenAI, the patent office said Monday. The number of patent applications related to super-giant AI pending in five major intellectual property rights areas — South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to launch the sixth generation network service in 2028, two years earlier than its original schedule, in a bid to secure an early dominance of the future wireless frequencies, the ICT ministry said Monday. Under the K-Network 2030 plan, the South Korean government will advance the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphone release, the Galaxy S23, is gaining sensational popularity, while interest in foldable phones seems to be fading. Consumers are placing more value on the high performance of the new product than the utility obtained through foldable phones. Despite the advantage of having a large [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The shortage of skilled employees is emerging as another problem for South Korea’s chip industry, which is already struggling due to the repercussions of the global economic slump. The number of students who gave up enrollment in the semiconductor departments of the nation’s four major universities even after being [...]