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Venture capital South Korean VCs back US humanoid robot developer Apptronik

South Korean venture capital firms invested undisclosed tens of billions of won, equivalent to tens of millions of dollars, in US humanoid-developin...

Batteries Hyundai, Samsung deepen ties to win humanoid race

South Korea’s household technology and automotive names Samsung and Hyundai have reinforced their alliance to capture the global humanoid robo...

Korean Innovators at CES 2025 LG Electronics bets big on humanoid robots: CEO Cho

LAS VEGAS – South Korea’s top home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc. has thrown down the gauntlet to frontrunners in the AI robot race...

Robotics Samsung joins humanoid robots race with larger stake in Rainbow Robotics

Samsung Electronics Co. has become the largest shareholder of Rainbow Robotics Co., a South Korean collaborative robot maker, as the tech giant spen...

Batteries SpaceX to use LG Energy batteries for Starship rocket

Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, will use LG Energy Solution Ltd.'s batteries for its next-generation Starship rocket, marking its ...

Future mobility Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up for humanoid robots

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co. and Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s No. 3 and No. 1 automakers, respectively, are teaming ...

Korean chipmakers Sapeon to supply NPU IP to Telechips

Sapeon Inc., the artificial intelligence (AI) chip subsidiary of South Korea's SK Telecom Co., announced on Friday that it will supply its AI semico...

Korean chipmakers Samsung’s foundry business to make DDIC chips for LX Semicon

LX Semicon Co., one of South Korea’s leading chip design firms, plans to ask Samsung Electronics Co. to manufacture display driver integrated ...

Earnings SKC eyes M&As in semiconductor, rechargeable battery materials

SKC Inc., a South Korean chemical materials company under SK Group, is seeking to buy semiconductor and rechargeable battery materials companies in ...

Earnings Samsung Q3 earnings disappoint on weak chip business

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chipmaker, missed third-quarter earnings estimates on the weak semiconductor business and its ...

Korean chipmakers ASML joins K-Semiconductor Belt with $210 mn investment by 2025

The Netherlands-based ASML Holding N.V., the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor equipment, will be joining the South Korean government-...

Korean chipmakers Quest for semicon autonomy pushes countries to brink of chip cold war

The ongoing global race for semiconductors, largely driven by the aggressive measures taken by both China and the US, has entered a more serious pha...

Tech, Media & Telecom SK Hynix introduces Gauss Labs-developed AI solution to semicon process (edited)

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has started to improve production efficiency and yield by introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to...