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

The year 2019 will witness a revolutionary change in the form factor of smartphones, led by South Korean tech titan Samsung Electronics’ launch of its first foldable display phone that could be a game-changer for the stalled global smartphone market. According to announcements by Samsung so far, the so-called “Galaxy F” is likely to feature an organic light-emitting diode screen dubbed “Infinity Flex Display” that measures 7.3 inches diagonally when it’s opened. When folded in half, the size of

LAS VEGAS -- Kicking off on Tuesday in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest information technology tradeshow, Consumer Electronics Show 2019, is to showcase significant advancements in consumer electronics technologies led by “smarter” artificial intelligence that will be supported by a new fifth-generation network. AI and 5G are expected to take center stage at the annual tech event, with an increased number of connected devices such as TVs and other home appliances, according to the Consumer Technol

The Year 2019 will be a cutthroat yet exciting year for South Korea’s telecommunications businesses as the introduction of faster fifth-generation telecom networks in March augurs upheavals in their own and other industries. The Korean mobile operators at the forefront of the 5G commercialization are widely expected to escape their traditional areas of business, mainly centering on providing high-speed internet and high-quality calls, stretching out to the media industry by providing new service

Samsung Electronics, the world’s No. 1 memory chip provider, is considering slowing the pace of expanding its production facilities next year amid negative forecasts about growth of the global semiconductor market, according to the industry on Tuesday. At a biannual meeting on the tech titan’s global business strategies held last week, the device solutions division’s main agenda was how to cope with the expected oversupply of memory chips next year, as demand is widely forecast to go downhill, w

Samsung Electronics is beefing up its foundry business by utilizing cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet technology to attract global IT giants such as IBM and Qualcomm as major customers, according to the industry on Friday. US-based IT mogul IBM Corp. announced Friday that it will use Samsung Foundry’s 7-nanometer EUV process to manufacture power processors for the IBM Power Systems, IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE high-performance computing systems and cloud offerings. The 7-nm EUV process was a strategic