SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday introduced a new mobile image sensor, the industry’s smallest pixel size, as the South Korean tech giant eyes to beef up its presence in the non-memory sector. The 50-million megapixel ISOCELL JN1 is the industry’s first 0.64-micrometer pixel image sensor that can deliver ultra-high [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. said Monday it launched a nationwide emergency telecommunications network with Samsung Electronics Co. in a move to boost the country’s response system against natural disasters and emergencies. The government-led project to establish a next-generation wireless network allows for more efficient response against major [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip producer, said Thursday it has developed a high-capacity dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) module. The South Korean tech giant said its 512-gigabyte (GB) Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) module is the industry’s first DDR5 product to use a High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) processor-embedded high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip that boasts low energy consumption and enhanced performance. Using processing-in-memory (PIM) technology, the South Korean tech giant said it integrated AI engines onto its HBM2 Aquabolt, becoming the first in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Thursday that it has succeeded in a ship-to-ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading test for the first time in the global shipbuilding industry. The ship-to-ship LNG loading test was aimed at streamlining procedures to verify the safety of newly built LNG carriers’ [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Monday its researchers have found how the novel coronavirus destroys lung cells by developing a “mini-lung” using stem cell technology. The university said its team at the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, and other researchers from the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. said Thursday that it and its unit Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. have won approval for the design of a commercial hydrogen carrier for the first time in the world. The approval in principle for the design was awarded by KR, South Korea’s ship [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. on Tuesday released the world’s first rollable TV in South Korea at a jaw-dropping price of 100 million won (US$87,000) as the tech giant aims to target high-end consumers amid the pandemic. The company said overseas launch schedules of LG Signature OLED R have not been [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Tuesday it has developed an AI robot for metalworking in the construction of ships for the first time in the world. The AI hot working robot, called Goknuri, is now used to shape steel plates into curved ones at the front and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it has launched the world’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM, as South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker strives to expand its presence with the next-generation memory product. SK hynix’s 16 Gigabit (Gb) DDR5 DRAM, which was developed in 2018 using 1Ynm process technology, [...]