SHENZHEN, China -- In June 2021, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still rampant, Huawei Technologies opened its largest-ever cybersecurity and privacy protection center in the southern city of Dongguan. Located 40 kilometers away from the Shenzhen headquarters, the Ox Horn campus, a European-themed model village, stretches over a 1.8 square kilometer site that is split into 12 “towns” named after European cities. And the towns are linked by a 7.8-kilometer commuter tram to transport em

SHENZHEN, China -- Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies last week offered a group of Korean reporters a rare glimpse into its latest communication solutions, especially its vision for 5.5G network service, at its headquarters in Shenzhen, a northeastern city affectionately dubbed the “Silicon Valley of China.” At the headquarters entrance, a huge screen featured portraits of several Western scientists Isaac Newton and Thomas Edition. The sign read in Chinese: “Industry beco

SHENZHEN, China -- Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies said Wednesday that it's looking to continue exploring opportunities for joint growth and shared success with its Asia-Pacific business partners in the digital economy. The Huawei Asia Pacific Partners Conference 2023, hosted by Huawei APAC, kicked off at the Shangri-La Hotel in Shenzhen -- an emerging tech city in China’s Guangdong province and the home of the Chinese IT company. Under the theme of “Grow Together, Win Fu

Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Korean tech giant’s chip complex in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in future tech industries, according to industry sources on Sunday. During the meeting, sources said the two business leaders agreed to continue exchanges for next-generation technology development, especially on chips for fully autonomous vehicles. It was the first time the heads of the world’s largest

US tech giant Google unveiled its first foldable smartphone, the Pixel Fold, at its annual I/O developer conference in California Wednesday, aiming to challenge the dominance of Samsung Electronics in the global market. While Chinese smartphone makers such as Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi have followed Samsung’s footsteps in launching foldable smartphones, Google has become the first major tech firm in the US to make an entry into the growing foldable market. The Pixel Fold is set for a Ju

The CEO of Germany-based artificial intelligence company DeepL affirmed the company’s vision to strengthen its presence in Korea by providing more advanced and accurate translation as a service -- DeepL Pro -- from August. DeepL Pro is an advanced subscription-based service that allows users to take full advantage of in-house AI translation technology. It offers user-optimized web translation and the ability to integrate into algorithmic translation software, according to the CEO. In Janua

South Korean internet giant Naver will unveil HyperClova X, its hyperscale artificial intelligence platform, which boasts greater Korean language skills than its US rival, OpenAI's ChatGPT, this summer to upgrade its services overall. “Based on HyperClova, which has the third-largest Korean language training volume in the world and the first in Korea, we’ll unveil a HyperClova X service that is comparable to GPT-4 (the successor of ChatGPT),” Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon said d

Germany's main envoy to South Korea discussed ways to forge stronger ties in the era of the "fourth industrial revolution" at the Global Business Forum hosted by The Korea Herald on Wednesday at the Ambassador Seoul - A Pullman Hotel. During the 11th session of the forum, German Ambassador Michael Reiffenstuel said that the two sides had intensified their collaboration in core areas of tech, while digitalization has revolutionized both economies. “As a like-minded country an

Samsung Electronics co-CEO Kyung Kye-hyun, who oversees the tech giant’s chip business, unveiled the company's five-year plan to develop memory chip-centered supercomputers and catch up with its Taiwan-based foundry rival TSMC. Kyung visited the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Chungcheong Province, on Thursday to deliver a special lecture to promising talents. It was the first time Kyung delivered a lecture to students since taking office as co-CEO

Samsung Electronics said Friday it showcased its new 2023 Neo quantum dot light-emitting diode TV lineup at the Samsung Opera House, a mobile exhibition center for Samsung Electronics products, in Bengaluru, India, on Thursday. The products introduced at the event include the 98-inch and 55-inch Neo QLED 8K TV models and Lifestyle TVs, as well as the tech giant’s newest sound tower and sound bar products, according to Samsung officials. Samsung applied its sustainability management practic

Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s No. 1 messenger app, KakaoTalk, said Thursday that its first-quarter operating profit had tumbled by more than half due to increased investment in infrastructure and promising businesses. The IT giant’s operating income came to 71.1 billion won ($53.6 million) in the January-March period, dipping 55.2 percent from 158.7 billion won marked a year ago. Net profit nosedived 93.4 percent on-year to 87.1 billion won, according to Kakao in a regulatory

Information technology service provider LG CNS said Wednesday it will accelerate business cooperation in the IT security sector with the Korean unit of US tech behemoth Microsoft. The Korean firm said it became Microsoft’s managed security service provider, offering integrated security solutions from consulting to operations. Microsoft considers a firm’s security business capabilities and growth potential to determine its MSSP partner qualification. The news came after the top manage

Samsung Electronics could face its first-ever labor strike as unionized workers have secured the right to legally conduct a walkout after wage talks between the tech giant and unionists fell through. According to industry sources Wednesday, Korea’s National Labor Relations Commission, a government agency under the Labor Ministry, held a steering session to arbitrate the wage deal a day earlier but ended up deciding to stop the talks due to an unbridgeable gap. The Tuesday meeting marks t

South Korea's three largest mobile carriers -- SK Telecom, KT Corp. and LG Uplus -- said on Tuesday that they will launch the country’s first personal embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) data plans for BMW vehicles. While the German luxury carmaker’s 7 series and above already feature fifth-generation connectivity via eSIM, the new data plans will enable backseat passengers to enjoy a variety of mobile content through built-in monitors without a separate physical chip, ac

Samsung Electronics is expected to cut its memory chip production by up to 25 percent in an effort to ease inventory woes, according to analysts on Sunday. The projection comes after the world’s largest memory chip maker hinted on an earnings call last week that it would start cutting production of legacy products for which it had already secured sufficient inventory to meet mid- to long-term demand. At the time, the company did not specify the reduction scale. Following the announcement,

Despite the global economic downturn, LG Electronics announced surprise earnings for the January-March period, outpacing its crosstown rival Samsung Electronics' financial result for the first time in more than a decade. In a regulatory filing on Thursday, the consumer electronics giant said its operating profit for the first quarter was 1.5 trillion won ($1.12 billion), down 22.9 percent from a year earlier. It has become the company’s second-highest profit for the January-March pe

Samsung Electronics, which posted its worst quarterly earnings in 14 years amid weak demand and falling chip prices, said it expects a gradual recovery in the second half of the year as the effects of production cuts kick in from the following quarter. In response, the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker plans to increase the proportion of advanced processes and high-value-added products and continue to invest in securing future technologies. “We are in the process of red

US tech giant Apple will likely continue its reliance on Korean-made displays, although it has been making a “sweeping effort” to develop its own components for more direct control over its designs, a report showed Tuesday. According to a report released by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, Apple is expanding its use of in-house components such as chips and displays in its flagship iPhones as part of a strategy to maintain its dominance in the m

LG Electronics said Friday that it has been recognized as complying with the global standard for its open-source software security management system by a globally renowned nonprofit organization. The South Korean tech giant was accredited by Linux Foundation’s OpenChain Project as the first firm in the global industry to certify the ISO/IEC DIS 18974 standard, the key requirements of a quality open-source security assurance program, LG officials said. The company met all 30 security cert

South Korea will invest over 560 billion won ($422.6 million) to foster software development companies and experts, with the goal of accelerating the country's push for digital innovation, the Science Ministry said. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced its plans for advancement of the software industry at an economic meeting Friday, intending to build on the fundamental strength of digitization and support the sector’s overseas expansion. Its yearly budget for the project stands