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Tuesday 22 July 2025
Samsung's TV business in crisis mode as employees seek reassignment
Samsung Electronics' Visual Display (VD) division, responsible for Samsung's TV business, has been experiencing internal disorder since May 2025, a negative byproduct of its workplace...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Inside Samsung's 1c DRAM breakthrough: How a design feud nearly derailed the project
Samsung Electronics has reportedly succeeded in developing its sixth-generation 10nm class DRAM, known as 1c DRAM, and is preparing for mass production despite internal tensions that...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
South Korea's Solar Pro 2 takes global stage, surpassing GPT-4.1 & DeepSeek V3
South Korean generative AI startup Upstage has launched its next-generation large language model (LLM), Solar Pro 2, achieving elite performance levels and sparking the attention...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Samsung powers the next Maybach experience with seamless tech integration
Samsung is strengthening its partnership with Mercedes-Benz on two strategic fronts—melding cutting-edge display technology with mobile-powered vehicle access—signaling...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Naver targets North America with Interest-based social platform 'ThingsBook'
Naver, South Korea's leading internet company, is set to launch ThingsBook, a new social networking platform targeting the North American market. Unlike Instagram and other image-driven...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
HBM equipment race intensifies as newcomers battle for market entry
Competition in bonding equipment for the high bandwidth memory (HBM) market is intensifying, especially for the new generation of hybrid bonding (HB) technology. Following the current...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
China's grip on rare earths puts South Korea's defense drone plans at risk
South Korea's ambitions to build a self-sufficient drone supply chain have hit a critical bottleneck just three months after China imposed export controls on seven rare earth elements...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
China's grip on drone supply chain spurs South Korea to boost self-reliance
A recent surge in the cost of Chinese-made drone components has reignited concerns in South Korea over its overwhelming reliance on China for critical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
Tuesday 22 July 2025
China's drone export curbs rattle East Asian supply chains
Drones have become a dominant force on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, highlighted by Ukraine's successful strikes on Russian air bases. The impact of these developments...
Monday 21 July 2025
South Korea's US$2.15 billion bet on humanoid robots gains MIT-Naver partnership
South Korea's Naver Corporation is teaming up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a bipedal humanoid robot, highlighting the nation's accelerating push...
Monday 21 July 2025
BOE's OLED salvo hits Samsung again, Apple braces for fallout
BOE Technology Group has filed a second patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Display in under two months, escalating a legal showdown that could disrupt Apple's iPhone OLED...
Monday 21 July 2025
Seoul backs RF Materials in US$76 million space-grade semiconductor initiative

As Seoul intensifies efforts to build next-generation aerospace technologies, RF Materials, a South Korean firm specializing in compound...

Monday 21 July 2025
Nvidia's China chip clearance spurs SK Hynix memory expansion plans
Nvidia's renewed ability to sell H20 artificial intelligence chips to China following the lifting of US restrictions is driving SK Hynix to consider expanding production of advanced...
Monday 21 July 2025
Samsung reportedly lobbies Washington on chip tariffs and AI export curbs
A senior executive from Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division has reportedly visited Washington, D.C., to express the company's concerns regarding US semiconductor tariff...
Monday 21 July 2025
Lee Jae-yong's road to rebuild Samsung after legal scandal acquittal
Coming out the other side after nearly a decade of legal troubles, Samsung Electronics stands at a crossroads. Chairman Lee Jae-yong is rebuilding the group leadership structure,...