Lotte Energy completes pilot plant for solid-state battery electrolyte

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., one of South Korea’s leading battery materials makers, has completed a pilot plant for the production of sulfide...

Samsung, SK Hynix up the ante on HBM to enjoy AI memory boom

TAIPEI – Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are racing to supply their advanced DRAM ...

Samsung SDS AI service FabriX to launch on Microsoft Azure platform

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of Samsung Group, said on Tuesday it plans to launch its AI service FabriX on Microsoft Cor...

Samsung, SK Hynix ramp up DRAM business on rapid AI growth

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.,the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are expanding their dynamic random access memory business...

Samsung Galaxy S25 to run on Qualcomm chips

The Galaxy S25, a new iteration of Samsung Electronics Co.'s flagship Galaxy smartphone series, will run on Qualcomm Inc.’s application proces...

Will Samsung take over Nokia’s mobile network assets?

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smartphone maker, has expressed interest in the mobile networks business of Nokia Oyj, a global telec...

High-performance 4680 battery war is on; LG Energy takes lead over rivals

With stagnating electric vehicle sales or an EV chasm set to be prolonged, battery makers are increasingly turning their sights toward next-generati...

Gloves off for Samsung, LG in high-end OLED display fight

Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the global leading organic light-emitting diode panel makers, are fiercely competing in the professional OLE...

SK Hynix unveils industry’s 1st 10-nanometer DDR5, aims for top spot

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has emerged as the dominant player in the sought-aft...

Samsung SDI, GM to build $3.5 bn EV battery plant in US

Samsung SDI Co., the world’s No. 6 battery maker, and General Motors Co., the leading US automaker, are set to build a $3.5 billion cell plant...

Samsung unveils new AI-enhanced side by side refrigerator

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Wednesday that it launched a new side-by-side refrigerator, featuring enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) technolo...

Samsung supplies LPDDR4X auto chip to Qualcomm, set for LPDDR5 deal

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. said on Tuesday it has begun supplying its latest automotive chip, LPDDR4X, to Qualcomm Technologies...

Lotte develops nickel-plated foil for solid-state batteries

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a major South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it has developed a nickel-plated copper foil for use in ...

Lotte Energy to supply copper foil to Samsung SDI-Stellantis JV

Samsung SDI Co., South Korea’s third-largest battery maker by battery usage, has picked Lotte Energy Materials Corp. as the exclusive supplier...

Kioxia’s TSE IPO: Boon for SK Hynix, bane for Samsung Electronics?

TOKYO – The planned initial public offering (IPO) of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. is expected to affect its bigger South Ko...

Samsung to offer 7 years of free Tizen OS upgrade for AI TVs

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top smart TV maker, plans to offer seven years of a free upgrade to its open-source smart TV operating sy...

Samsung’s new 2 nm foundry process to cut chip size by 17%

A new contract chipmaking technology, dubbed the backside power delivery network (BSPDN), will reduce the size of a 2-nanometer chip by 17%, compare...

Samsung tops S.Korean smartphone market with 76% share

In the second quarter of this year,  the market share of Samsung Electronics Co. in the South Korean smartphone market slightly increased, whil...

LG Energy looks to battery safety diagnosis software business

LG Energy Solution Ltd., one of the world’s top battery makers, said on Wednesday it is entering the battery safety diagnosis software busines...

Stock-rich KCC's shareholdings exceed its market cap

KCC Corp., a paint and glass maker but better known as a white knight for South Korean conglomerates, holds more than 4 trillion won ($3 billion) wo...

After Mercedes Fire, EV Owners Want to Know What Battery They Have

SEOUL—The uproar over a Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle that burst into flames in South Korea this month wasn’t only about fire...

EV firefighting startup Lee Mobility gets seed round

South Korean startup Lee Mobility announced on Tuesday that it got a seed round investment from Bluepoint Partners, a domestic early-stage venture c...

Samsung Electronics tops global TV sales in H1

Samsung Electronics Co. maintained its top position in the global TV market in the first half of this year, bolstered by robust sales of its newly i...

Samsung to unveil industry’s highest-capacity eSSD in November

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to unveil the industry’s highest-capacity enterprise solid-state dr...

Samsung's financial arms beat No.1 banking group KB in profit

Samsung Group's financial services business has overtaken South Korea's No. 1 banking group KB Financial Group in terms of net profit, posing a thre...

Naver Cloud takes the lead in Korea’s public AI business

South Korean online giant Naver Corp.'s cloud subsidiary is expanding its presence in the country’s public artificial intelligence market by w...

Samsung’s Circle to Search available on Galaxy A series to rival Xiaomi

Samsung Electronics Co. has been battling Apple Inc. in the high-end smartphone segment with its premium Galaxy S series packed with advanced featur...

Samsung's AI home appliances hit 1.5 mn units sold

Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday that its cumulative sales of AI-integrated home appliances have surpassed 1.5 million units as of July this...

Fire-plagued Mercedes uses Chinese cells for most EVs in S.Korea

Mercedes-Benz AG, a German luxury carmaker hit by an electric vehicle fire in South Korea, said most of its EV models in the country are equipped wi...

Samsung’s Monimo set to disrupt Korea’s financial app market

Samsung Group, South Korea’s most powerful business group, is poised to crack the country’s financial app market — now crowded wit...