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• Samsung funds research for 7nm 03/09/2014
  The South Korean tech giant is financing Pennsyvania State University's work on III-V, which explores FinFET fabrication using the combination of silicon and indium gallium arsenide.
• Samsung vs LG: The smartwatch battle 01/09/2014
  The South Korean vendors are battling it out in the wearables sector—Samsung with its 3G-equipped Gear S, and LG with its full circle P-OLED-designed G Watch R.
• Fairchild to shut down Penang, Bucheon fab lines 28/08/2014
  The company is planning to close manufacturing and assembly sites in Malaysia as well as South Korea. The ceasing of operations of its 5-inch lines and reduction in 6-inch facilities will impact about 9,000 employees worldwide.
• KEPCO buys Philippines' Naga Power Plant via joint venture 15/08/2014
  The Korean power company—through its joint venture with Cebu-based Salcon Power, KEPCO SPC—offered $26 million for the Naga Power Plant Complex, a bid it won over Aboitiz Group.
• Flexible screens: Coming soon to mobile, wearable devices 14/08/2014
  Kateeva said it will start shipping Yieldjet—an inkjet printer that boasts significantly lowers costs by boosting yields in the high-volume manufacture of flexible and large-sized OLEDs.
• Samsung preps future SSDs with 3bit V-NAND chips 07/08/2014
  The soon-to-be-shipped chips feature a vertical architecture stacking 32 cell layers on top of one another, with each layer fitting 3bits of data. Samsung also launched a smart storage initiative to leverage unused capabilities of flash controllers.
• Samsung sets up Silicon Valley base 29/07/2014
  The Korean company aims to tap into the top-drawer pool of component, system and semiconductor talent in Silicon Valley, and, of course, a lot of angel and VC investors.
• $1.1B suit claims SK Hynix stole Toshiba's NAND flash tech 22/07/2014
  In the regulatory filing, Toshiba also seeks to have SK Hynix destroy all information about the technology in question and cease production and sales of NAND memory products using that technology.
• China, South Korea fire up 5G work in Asia 21/07/2014
  The two countries have set up industrial research initiatives dedicated to developing a 5G standard. Such efforts have driven the formation of regional alliances, which are now reaching out to collaborate with Europe's 5GPPP.
• Samsung shooting for LTE advantage over Qualcomm 15/07/2014
  The South Korean giant is aiming for a larger slice of the LTE business pie, and does so by designing vendors' chips out of its handsets and tablets. The recently revealed LTE combo chip integrating Samsung's own quad-core Exynos processor has already dealt a huge blow to other players, but not to Qualcomm.
• HMD projects images that augment real world 24/02/2014
  The AR processor in the HMD works just like human vision. Implemented in the 65nm process, it duplicates the ability of human brain to process visual data.