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There are reports that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix may raise NAND prices next month. Taiwanese economic newspaper DigiTimes reported on the 17th that "Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will raise NAND prices by around 10% next month." Samsung Electronics' 'QLC 9th Generation V-NAND' product image. [Photo = Samsung Electronics] DigiTimes explained that "some semiconductor distributors are confessing that Samsung Electronics' NAND supply in March is only 20-25% of the original order," and "Samsung Electronics cited a lack of production capacity as the reason, but the industry sees this as a preparatory measure for a price increase." Major NAND manufacturers also raised their supply prices ahead of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. SanDisk, spun off from Western Digital in the U.S., announced that it will raise the prices of all its products by more than 10% starting next month, and announced additional increases in the...

Hyundai Motor Group announced on the 18th that it has proven its world-class design competitiveness by sweeping a total of 26 awards at the '2025 iF Design Award' hosted by the International Forum Design in Germany. Major award-winning works of Hyundai Motor Group at the '2025 iF Design Award'. [Photo = Hyundai Motor Group] The iF Design Award, one of the world's top three design awards, has been selecting the best design in each category by evaluating design differentiation and influence among projects that have been released or are scheduled to be released on the market every year since 1954. This year, Hyundai Motor Group received 26 main awards in categories such as ▲Product ▲Professional Concepts ▲Communication ▲Interior Architecture ▲User Interface (UI), ▲User Experience (UX), and ▲Service Design. △ In the Automobiles category of the product sector, the Hyundai IONIQ 9, the All New Palisade, the Inishium Concept, the Kia EV3, and the Genesis X ...

Korea has also expressed its intention to participate in the project to build the largest radio telescope in human history. [Photo = Korea Aerospace Research Institute] Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) (Director Youngbin Yoon) will attend the board meeting of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 18th and officially express its intention to participate in the 'Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KAR) Project' to build the largest radio telescope in human history. The SKA telescope, currently under construction in Australia and South Africa, has better resolution, observation speed, and sensitivity than existing radio telescopes, allowing it to observe faint radio signals from the early universe. It is expected to be able to answer fundamental questions about the universe, such as the origin of the universe and the search for extraterrestrial life. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute is aiming to obtain final re...

Innospace announced on the 17th that it successfully completed the HANBIT-NANO launch pad-launch vehicle system linkage test. [Photo = Innospace] Space startup Innospace has completed the 'launch pad-launch vehicle' system linkage test and has begun full-scale commercial launch in July. Innospace (CEO Kim Soo-jong) announced on the 17th that it has independently developed the launch pad, the core infrastructure for the launch of the satellite launch vehicle 'HANBIT-NANO', and successfully completed the launch pad-launch vehicle system linkage test. The test was conducted by Samwoo Eco, its partner company that was in charge of manufacturing the launch pad. The launch pad-launch vehicle system linkage test was conducted as a procedure to comprehensively verify launch operability, starting from the process of assembling the launch vehicle and mounting it on the launch pad, to checking the function of the launch vehicle erection and propellant supply system...

BMW's 'MINI', which has announced its transition to a fully electric brand, is strengthening its conquest of the Korean EV market by launching three new electric vehicle (EV) models in Korea. In particular, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of MINI Korea, and the goal is to use it as a turning point to open a new era of change, such as completing the EV lineup, including high-performance models, by May. MINI Korea is unveiling the 'The New All-Electric MINI Countryman' at the 'MINI Driving Center' on Yeongjongdo, Incheon on the 13th. [Video=Reporter Kim Jong-seong] MINI Korea held a launch event for 'The New All-Electric MINI Family' at the MINI Driving Center on Yeongjongdo, Incheon on the 13th and announced the official launch of three electric vehicles. The models unveiled this time are a total of three: △The New All-Electric MINI Aceman, a purely electric compact sports utility vehicle (SUV), △The New All-Ele...

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and the Korea Space Administration (KSAA) announced the results of the public contest for the payload of the Space Verification Satellite 2 of the 'Domestic Component and Component Space Verification Support Project (Space Verification Project)' on the 13th. The space verification project is a project to support space verification of domestic electric and electronic component and semiconductor research results with an investment of 12 billion won over four years from 2024 to 2027. The KSAA announced the results of the selection of the payload for the Space Verification Satellite 2 for domestic component and component. [Photo = KSAA] A verification platform based on cube satellite (12U class, 1U = 10cm x 10cm x 10cm) was developed to load components and parts developed by domestic companies into boards and modules up to 8U, and support verification in a space environment. The payloads of the space verification satelli...

Recently, large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek have been utilized in various fields and are attracting attention. Large-scale language models are trained in large-scale distributed systems equipped with tens of thousands of GPUs for data centers. In the case of GPT-4, the cost of training the model is estimated to be approximately 140 billion won. A domestic research team has developed a technology that helps derive the optimal parallelization configuration that can increase GPU utilization and reduce training costs. Changes in MT-NLG training time and GPU utilization according to various parallelization techniques. [Photo = KAIST] The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, President Lee Kwang-hyung) announced on the 13th that the research team of Professor Yoo Min-soo of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics' Samsung Advanced Institute of Technol...