Oh Chan-jong

Oct 3, 2024 | pulse.mk.co.kr | Oh Chan-jong |Yoon Yeon-hae

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Tuesday that it partnered with Ashley Furniture Industries LLC, the largest furniture brand in the United States, to open a flagship store in Nashville, Tennessee. The duo’s first flagship store, Samsung SmartThings Home at Ashley, integrates furniture with smart home appliances and devices. Customers can experience a smart home environment and purchase furniture and home appliance products.

Jul 28, 2024 | pulse.mk.co.kr | Park Seung-joo |Oh Chan-jong |Yoon Yeon-hae

South Korea’s LG Group has set its eyes on the automotive parts business as a new growth engine, with its key executives making visits to the headquarters of global auto manufacturers. In March, executives from LG Group subsidiaries visited the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz Group AG in Stuttgart, Germany. They are scheduled to visit Toyota Motor Corp.‘s headquarters in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in September to hold a closed-door LG Tech Day. The upcoming event is expected to be attended by LG Corp.

Jul 25, 2024 | pulse.mk.co.kr | Lee Duk-joo |Oh Chan-jong |Han Yubin

Samsung Electronics Co. could supply image sensors for Apple’s iPhone for the first time. In a report published on Thursday, TF International Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo predicted that the iPhone will be equipped with Samsung Electronics‘ complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors from 2026 onwards.

Jul 22, 2024 | pulse.mk.co.kr | Oh Chan-jong |Yoon Yeon-hae

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEM) Co., an electronic component manufacturing company under South Korea’s Samsung Group, will supply high-specification semiconductor substrates for servers to U.S. chip designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The supply comes more than two years after Samsung Electro-Mechanics invested 1.9 trillion won ($1.37 billion) in the flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) substrate.

Jul 18, 2024 | pulse.mk.co.kr | Oh Chan-jong |Yoon Yeon-hae

South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has acquired a U.K. startup specializing in knowledge graph technology, a move seen as designed to combine the technology with its on-device artificial intelligence (AI) to offer differentiated personalized AI services. Samsung Electronics announced on Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Oxford Semantic Technologies Ltd., a U.K.-based AI startup. The company did not disclose the size of the acquisition.