In less than a month, Samsung Electronics’ 10th anniversary Galaxy phones will be unwrapped with breakthrough camera technology ordered by the firm’s leader Lee Jae-yong, who has shown a specific interest in the camera features, according to industry sources on Tuesday. According to rumors from tech fans around the world, the upcoming Galaxy S10 series is expected to feature three rear cameras that deliver 12-megapixel, 16-megapixel and 13-megapixel resolution, respectively, and dual front-facin

SK hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip provider, said Monday the company donated 3 billion won ($2.66 million) for welfare institutions in Gyeonggi and North Chungcheong provinces to support the vulnerable.The chipmaker’s employees and executives raised 1.5 billion won and the company offered another 1.5 billion won for a matching grant fund, dubbed “Happy Nanum Fund,” which is part of its corporate outreach. SK hynix has so far donated 19.5 billion won, benefiting around 32,000 elderl

Amid concerns about an anticipated slowdown in South Korea’s semiconductor exports this year, lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles are emerging as a new pillar that will prop up the export-driven economy, said industry officials Monday. According to forecasts by industry insiders and stock brokerages, the country’s three battery manufacturers -- LG Chem, Samsung SDI and SK Innovation -- last year won a total of around 110 trillion won ($97.6 billion) worth of orders for electric vehicle b

Amid rumors about whether LG Electronics intends to join the upcoming foldable smartphone competition, a source confirmed to The Korea Herald on Sunday that the company will showcase a foldable smartphone exclusively to its business-to-business customers at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona next month. “LG will showcase the foldable smartphone under development to its VIP customers at a private booth to be set up the MWC,” said the source, who is familiar with the company’s mobile communic

Owners of the world’s two largest memory chipmakers -- Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong and SK Group’s Chey Tae-won -- boasted of their business confidence during a walk with President Moon Jae-in at Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday. The conglomerate chiefs were among eight business representatives that took a 25-minute walk around the Cheong Wa Dae garden after a more official business meeting.　 In response to Moon’s expression of concerns about a slowdown in the semiconductors market, Sa

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jackson Square is a neighborhood in San Francisco inhabited by companies brimming with ideas of integrating designs into new technologies born in Silicon Valley. At the center of this design-centric area is Samsung Design Innovation Center, which is responsible for the designs of Samsung Electronics’ new products and services. The center was relocated from nearby Palo Alto in Silicon Valley in 1994 to Los Angeles in 2008, then back up to San Francisco in 2012. Federico Casalegno

SILICON VALLEY, California -- Larry Heck is a renowned figure in Silicon Valley, spending 27 years working with the world’s leading tech moguls on bringing forward the era of artificial intelligence. After introducing AI services at Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, Heck joined Samsung in November 2017 to improve its fledgling AI platform Bixby, as the South Korean IT hardware manufacturer kick-started its drive for AI. “Despite the last five to seven years of progress, we are still very early in thi

Amid its strong drive for artificial intelligence, Samsung Electronics is preparing to open new AI research centers, likely in Switzerland and Germany, this year, in addition to seven existing centers across the continents, according to the company’s high-ranking officials on Monday. “Samsung will open additional AI centers this year to attract more AI experts, and the places under consideration include Switzerland and Germany,” a Samsung official told The Korea Herald. The comment was made in r

-- 바르셀로나 MWC 2019 행사 보다 일주일 앞서 공개 -- 폴더블폰 공개 시점 여전히 조율중... 강력한 유저 콘텐츠 개발 고민중 삼성전자가 내달 중순 미국 샌프란시스코에서 플래그십 스마트폰 갤럭시S10 시리즈를 공개한다. 9일(현지시간) 업계에 따르면 삼성은 올해로 10주년을 맞은 주력폰 갤럭시S10과 S10+ 등의 신제품을 혁신의 상징인 실리콘밸리가 위치한 샌프란시스코에서 공개하기로 결정했다. 앞서 갤럭시S10 시리즈는 2월말 스페인 바르셀로나에서 열리는 모바일월드콩그레스(Mobile World Congress)에서 공개될 것이라는 전망이 많았다. 삼성전자 고동진 사장이 작년 2월 스페인 바르셀로나에서 삼성 갤럭시폰 S9과 S9+를 소개하고 있다. (사진=삼성전자)실제로 지난해까지 상반기 전략폰인 갤럭시S 시리즈와 하반기 주력폰 갤럭시노트 언팩(Unpacked) 행사는 스페인 MWC나 독일 IFA와 같은 세계적인 전자제품 박람회가 열리는 유럽 지역과 뉴욕에서 각각 열렸다.

LAS VEGAS –- Samsung Electronics will hold the GalaxyS10 Series Unpacked event in San Francisco in mid-February, according to the industry Wednesday. Sources told The Korea Herald that the 10th edition of Galaxy S phones will be unveiled in the US city -- home to world’s most innovative tech firms –- one week ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2019 that kicks off in Barcelona, Spain on Feb. 28. Samsung was widely expected to announce the S10 series at MWC 2019 in Barcelona as it did for the pred

LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics will not immediately join the new market for rollable TVs that surprised the world this week at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, according to the company’s chief of consumer electronics division, raising doubt as to the “economic efficiency.”During a press conference held Tuesday, Kim Hyun-suk pointed out, “The problem of rollable TVs is economics.” The comment was made after Samsung’s archrival LG Electronics impressed the world with the industry’s first roll

LAS VEGAS -- SK hynix, the world’s No. 2 memory chip provider, may ultimately expand into the non-memory semiconductor market by tapping into an emerging market for a variety of system-on-chips for autonomous driving, Park Jung-ho, chief executive officer of parent company SK Telecom said Tuesday. “SK hynix is (confidentially) conducting research and developing non-memory chips for vehicles,” Park told The Korea Herald after attending a press conference on SKT’s vision for future businesses in t

LAS VEGAS -- Park Jung-ho, chief executive officer of South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom, on Tuesday expressed determination to create an intermediary financial holding company this year. During a press conference in Las Vegas to announce the company’s vision for the fifth-generation network business, Park stressed, “We will carry out the plan (to create the intermediary) without fail this year.” After setting up the intermediary holding company, “SK Telecom will turn into an operatin

박정호 SK텔레콤 사장이 자회사인 SK하이닉스가 차량용 비메모리 반도체를 개발중에 있다고 말했다. 박 사장은 8일 미국 라스베이거스에서 열리는 국제전자제품박람회(Consumer Electronics Show 2019)에서 기자간담회를 갖은 이후 기자와 만나 "SK하이닉스가 차량용 비메모리 제품을 개발 중에 있다"고 말했다. 비메모리 제품에 대한 구체적인 질문에 대해 박 사장은 "AP(어플리케이션 프로세서)를 넘어 서는 기술이 필요한 제품들을 개발중" 이라며 자율주행차의 핵심 반도체 부품인 GPU, NPU 등의 고차원적인 제품임을 알렸다. 박정호 SKT사장이 8일 라스베이거스에서 열린 CES2019에 참석해 SK텔레콤 전시관을 관람하고 있다. (SK텔레콤)그는 SK하이닉스 기업가치 재평가 방안에 대한 질문에 "차량용 반도체 시장점유율 확대를 위해 메모리는 물론 비메모리 반도체 연구개발도 하고 있다"고 전했다. 이는 세계 2위 메모리 반도체 제조업체인 SK하이닉스가 기업가치 확대를 위해

삼성전자가 8일 미국 라스베이거스에서 개막한 국제전자제품박람회(Consumer Electronics Show 2019)에서 주요 고객사에게 출시 준비 중인 폴더블폰을 공개했다. 삼성 전시관을 방문한 한 고객사 고위임원에 따르면 삼성은 현재 폴더블폰의 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 막바지 개선 작업을 진행 중이다.  그는 "삼성 폴더블폰이 펼쳤을 때 전혀 접히는 부분이 보이지 않으며 손으로 만져도 매끈한 느낌이 난다"며 기대감을 전했다.  삼성은 이번 전시회에서 폴더블폰을 일반에 공개하지 않았다. 하지만 부스를 찾는 주요 고객사를 대상으로 출시품에 가까운 시제품을 제한적으로 공개했다.  그는 "다만 완전히 접으면 부서지기 때문에 양 옆이 살짝 뜬 라운드 형태로 접는 테스트를 진행 중이다"고 전했다. 또한 "오늘 본 시제품은 테스트 중이어서 접힐 때 구겨짐 같은 표가 살짝 나지만 출시되는 제품에는 그 부분이 보완될 것이다"고 말했다. 중국 로욜(Royole)이 공개한 플레스파이(FlexPai)

LAS VEGAS -- Lee Seok-hee, the newly installed chief executive officer of the world’s second-biggest memory chip provider, SK hynix, expressed his determination to expand into an emerging market for automotive memory chips on Monday. Upon his arrival in Las Vegas to attend Consumer Electronics Show 2019, which kicked off on Tuesday, Lee told The Korea Herald that his company had its eye on the growth potential of the automotive semiconductor business and planned to expand its involvement in that

LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics is accelerating the development of multiple types of robots that support various tasks, powered by the company’s artificial intelligence platform, according to the company on Monday. During a global conference held at Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, a day before the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, Samsung unveiled for the first time three kinds of AI-based robots branded as Samsung Bot, and three other wearable robots -- known as gait-enhancing an

LAS VEGAS -- Hearty cheers and camera flashes filled the venue of LG Electronics’ press conference as the tech giant’s 65-inch OLED TV screen gracefully slid down into a sound speaker box. It is a television that one has never seen before. A day before the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, LG Electronics unveiled the world’s first rollable organic light-emitting diode TV, with a plan to commercialize it in the second half of the year. The Korean TV maker presented its 65-inch

LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics’ Smart TVs will ultimately have multiple built-in artificial intelligence platforms of its competitors in order to provide as many choices as possible for its global customers, said the company’s TV business executive on Monday.The remarks came on the heels of Samsung’s announcement that it will partner with Google, Amazon and Apple to launch Smart TVs that are even inclusive of services provided by its archrival Apple, such as its new video-streaming service, iT

LAS VEGAS -- Excitement about future consumer technology is building up in Las Vegas, as the world’s most innovative tech giants and startups arrived here on Monday, a day before the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show 2019. In the quest to realize smart homes, companies are about to unveil their newest artificial intelligence technologies that are expected to make consumer life “even better” with improved connectivity tapping into the upcoming fifth-generation network. After achieving thei