Han-Joo Ryoo

SEOUL, Korea—Large IT companies here, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., are seeing good results from their strategies for on-demand service contracts, or “utility computing.” HP Korea clinched a comprehensive IT outsourcing service contract for ERP implementation at Olympus Korea. HP will implement an ERP solution for Olympus once the existing infrastructure has been migrated to […]

Korea is continuing its rapid deployment of clustered supercomputers. Last year, Samsung Electronics, Seoul National University, Microsoft and Intel joined forces to develop a 1 teraflop super computer. Now, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KISTI) has announced plans to develop a supercomputer with a target speed of 2 teraflops, more than double that […]

SEOUL, South Korea—Demand for high-performance computing clusters (HPCs) continues to grow in Korea, which now ranks seventh in the world in supercomputing installations, according to an organization that tracks HPCs. Last November, Samsung Electronics, Seoul National University, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. partnered to develop a 180-node high-performance computing system that is among the 100 […]

SEOUL, South Korea—The South Korean government, eager to attract foreign capital, has approved the construction of a new LG Philips LCD (liquid crystal display) plant in Paju, in the Gyeonggi Province just outside of Seoul. LG Philips LCD faced several obstacles for its planned Paju facilities, including environmental regulations and military issues, but the company […]

SEOUL, South Korea—PC makers here are raising red flags about Intel Corp.s cooperative sales and marketing program, which they say is growing too focused on Intels Centrino offering. , the companys newest offering for mobile PCs, includes a new mobile processor, related chip sets and “PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connectivity,” an 802.11 wireless networking module. “Although […]

SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electronics last week announced that it has started construction on a new $1 billion mass production line for components of thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels. The new line in Chonan, South Korea, is Samsungs sixth and is scheduled for initial start-up at the end of this year. The line will be […]