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SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has begun mass production of a high-end product known as the world’s fastest DRAM and will supply it to American graphics-chip maker Nvidia. It came seven months after the South Korean chipmaker said it successfully developed the High Bandwidth Memory 3 (HMB3) that [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to install artificial intelligence (AI)-based CCTV cameras at major railway stations aimed at detecting any occurrence of crimes and reporting them instantly to the police. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Wednesday it will contract a research study for the installation of anti-crime AI [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a pilot program in which robots are being used to automate repetitive and standardized tasks. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on Wednesday the launch of a pilot program that will introduce so-called Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at several ministries and agencies. The [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics parts maker in South Korea, won a bid to supply camera modules tor U.S. electric car maker Tesla, the company confirmed Wednesday. The company beat its bigger rival LG Innotek Co., another South Korean e-mobility total solution provider, in a recent bid to [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, has kept in place an external payment link in the Android version of the popular messaging software against Google’s new in-app payment policy. In April, Google required all app developers selling digital goods and services on the company’s Play [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military has developed new technology for the automatic generation of navigation software for guided weapons and unmanned aircraft on the basis of the concept of module assembly. The state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said Tuesday it had independently secured navigation software development technology designed to automatically create [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled an expanded product line for customized home appliances during the online Bespoke Home 2022 event. The Bespoke Home concept, first introduced in 2019, is the South Korean tech giant’s attempt to usher in an era of customized home appliances that go beyond technology [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s third-largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it plans to release a limited Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone model themed on the newly released “Diablo Immortal” mobile game by Blizzard Entertainment Inc. LG Uplus said it plans to exclusively sell 100 units of the Galaxy S22 Diablo [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering Co., a plant engineering affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, has announced the development of a Smart Parking Address Tool (SPAT), an automatic parking navigation service that detects the location of a driver’s car within an apartment complex and notifies the driver. The company combined Hyundai Engineering & [...]
POHANG, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — An automatic stop technology has been developed to prevent forklift collisions. South Korean steel giant POSCO said it had developed the automatic stop technology for forklifts in collaboration with the Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology, Posco Group’s Future Technology Research Institute and local small and medium companies. [...]