Day: December 26, 2022

Embracing a Timeless Aesthetic and Sustainability, New Appliances Stick to the Essentials to Deliver New Customer Value

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics (LG) is set to introduce a new line of minimalist-design appliances, including a washer and dryer, at CES 2023. Taking a ‘back to basics’ approach, the new range focuses on the essence of each appliance, removing all unnecessary design elements to deliver a timeless, minimalist aesthetic. The distinctive, durable products also reflect LG’s strong commitment to sustainability, featuring recycled materials inside and out, and requiring fewer parts and less energy to make than conventional appliances.

Refreshingly unadorned, LG’s minimalist appliances match with any kind of décor, color scheme, or interior trend. The lineup’s achromatic color palette and lack of decorative embellishment offers a modern yet classic look that allows the products to blend in seamlessly with their surroundings. In addition to a clean, simple design language, LG’s appliances boast an elegantly clear control experience that users will find effortlessly easy to get to grips with.

Aligned with LG’s goal to continuously reduce environmental impact across all areas of operations, the stylish, new products have been designed with sustainability in mind. By lowering the number of components and printed elements used, LG’s minimalist-design appliances take less time, use fewer resources, and require less energy to manufacture. Each model in the new range also features internal and external parts – and ships in packaging – made from recyclable materials.

The new range, which includes a refrigerator, washing machine, dryer, oven range and dishwasher, is also a part of LG’s innovative upgradable appliance lineup, meaning users can add new features to the products via the Upgrade Center in the LG ThinQ app.

“Sustainable, stylish and simple to use, our minimalist-design appliances deliver new customer value,” said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. “We will continue to provide advanced, thoughtfully-designed solutions incorporating our innovative technologies and reflecting our commitment to environmental responsibility.”

Visitors to LG’s booth (#15501, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas) at CES 2023 from January 5-8 can experience all of the company’s latest innovations, including the new minimalist-design appliance lineup.

About LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company

The LG Home Appliance & Air Solution Company is a global leader in home appliances, smart home solutions, air solutions as well as visionary products featuring LG ThinQ AI. The company is creating various solutions with its industry leading core technologies and is committed to making life better and healthier for consumers by developing thoughtfully designed kitchen appliances, living appliances, HVAC and air purification solutions. Together, these products deliver enhanced convenience, superb performance, efficient operation and compelling health benefits. For more news on LG, visit www.LGnewsroom.com.

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DUBAI, UAE, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — AppGallery, the official app distribution platform for Huawei devices and one of the world’s top 3 app marketplaces, celebrates its another year of anniversary with stronger growth than ever before.

The strong support from the 6 million registered developers worldwide has been key to the platform’s success, along with the trust that major international and local partners have demonstrated since day one.

Among dozens of successful local partnership stories, the Ministry of Interior’s MOI UAE app was the first federal government app to be completely integrated with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) in February 2020. It marked the beginning of the AppGallery team’s close collaboration with local and federal government entities, to integrate HMS into essential public sector mobile apps and contribute to the UAE’s digital transformation journey.

Having recently completed its HMS integration and the publication of five apps on AppGallery in the first half of 2021, UAE-based multinational real estate giant EMAAR plans to strengthen its strategic partnership with Huawei as part of its ongoing focus on innovation and collaboration to increase visibility and reach new audience via multiple platforms. EMAAR also recently launched the Dubai Hills Mall app with its first creative digital campaign in 2022 on HUAWEI Ads, and is looking to roll out a more comprehensive media plan in the near future.

Emirates and Huawei first established a strategic partnership in early 2020, making the official Emirates app available on the AppGallery. A few months ago, the two companies announced the extension of their collaboration through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Arabian Travel Market 2022. The MoU aims to boost audience engagement for both brands in the Middle East, China, and African markets through joint activities and synergies.

ADCB, one of the region’s leading banks, was also among the first to join the AppGallery and the HMS ecosystem, with remarkable success. This partnership was an expansion of Huawei’s ongoing commitment to work with local brands and deliver some of the best technological products along with community-focused initiatives.

AppGallery has also made a strategic partnership with the premier streaming platform Viu, the collaboration has facilitated the business growth of the VIU streaming platform in the region, expanding its access to an even wider audience as the number of Huawei device users continues to rise. HUAWEI AppGallery provides the app with access to a premium global user base of more than 730 million users, who in return get access to the greatest video streaming service, allowing them to catch up on all the latest entertainment wherever they go, including the newest and most popular movies and TV shows. Viu offers fresh premium TV series, movies, and lifestyle programming in local and regional languages and subtitles in different genres from top content providers, as well as premium original productions under the brand “Viu Original”.

HMS Core is a collection of open device and cloud capabilities provided by Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). It includes more than 70 open capabilities across a diverse range of fields, including graphics, media, and AI. HMS Core’s versatile capabilities offer tailor-made solutions that help developers tackle longstanding challenges, boost development efficiency, promote groundbreaking innovations, and grow their business to new levels.

For example, apps like Carrefour and Emirates can enhance the user experience and effectively increase their active users, by providing a stable and time-efficient push notification services using the HMS Core. In addition, the HMS Core service can analyze the user’s preferences, enabling apps such as Dubai Mall to do precise targeting with products and ads relevant to the users. The HMS Core has introduced more AI-based innovation capabilities, Snapchat as an example, cooperates with the HMS Core machine learning service to implement AI-based games such as face detection.

In line with its seamless AI life strategy, Huawei is constantly evolving the HMS ecosystem to support enhanced cross-device collaboration capabilities with the goal of delivering an elevated AI life experience for users across scenarios. The increasing number of premium apps, combined with the millions of new users that join AppGallery each month, confirm the platform’s ongoing success.

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TAIPEI, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Innodisk, a global leader in industrial-grade storage and embedded peripherals is proud to announce its solution to issues faced by Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) applications relating to, and caused by the shortcomings of consumer DRAM.

With the recent launch of Innodisk AI, which provides a complete AI solution for industrial integrators, DDR5 series DRAM plays a key role for a variety of applications, including Automated Optical Inspection solutions. With the rise in demand for semiconductors, and the trend towards smaller and smaller processes, the need for automatic systems to detect semiconductor production defects has grown significantly. AOI systems are now used at every step of the semiconductor manufacturing process, and their stability is paramount to production efficiency.

Modern AOI systems face three core issues that Innodisk’s DDR5 RDIMM (registered memory) help to solve: memory bandwidth, accuracy, and high temperatures.

Memory Bandwidth

Due to the high memory bandwidth needed for training models, AOI systems often struggle when lower capacity modules are used. Innodisk’s DDR5 RDIMM solves this issue with large capacities, including 32GB and 64GB modules.

Accuracy

Due to semiconductor processes going down to the nanometer level, the resolution requirement and accuracy requirements for AOI systems has increased. Innodisk’s DDR5 RDIMM features a new dual 40-bit sub-channel architecture, and supports rigorous side-band ECC, which can handle AOI’s high-accuracy detection demands.

High Temperatures

The high-speed and high-precision inspection that AOI systems provide generates high amounts of heat at the DRAM level, and this can cause overall system temperatures to rise sharply. Innodisk’s DDR5 RDIMM solves these heat concerns via a two-pronged strategy, involving an integration of both hardware and software. Two thermal sensors on the modules detect ambient temperatures, and two software tools: iCAP (Innodisk Cloud Administration Platform), and iSMART monitor temperatures and send warning messages.

Although memory technology is constantly being updated, Innodisk’s observation of the industry’s current situation shows that customers’ demands for new technologies vary greatly. Therefore, Innodisk not only provides the most complete industrial-grade DDR5 and DDR4 products, but also legacy products such as DDR3, DDR2, DDR and SDRAM. These memory modules will continue to be supplied with stable pricing, original IC, and the same great longevity support as all Innodisk products.

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BEIJING, Dec. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hailed the role of major-country diplomacy in promoting global peace and prosperity as he summarized the country’s diplomatic performance during the year on Sunday.

“We have conducted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in an all-round way, making new contribution to upholding world peace and promoting common development,” said Wang in a speech at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations.

Lauding head-of-state diplomacy as having set the pace for China’s overall diplomatic work, Wang singled out the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, bilateral meetings held between Chinese President Xi Jinping and foreign leaders of more than 40 countries, and three overseas trips made by Xi before and after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October.

Wang praised the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, witnessed by 31 heads of state, government and international organizations, as having let the international community experience “a more confident, striving, open and inclusive” China.

“The Beijing rendezvous on ice and snow marked a new milestone in the endeavor of the peoples across the world to embrace new hopes and pursue a shared future together,” Wang said.

As for the dozens of bilateral meetings between Xi and leaders from foreign countries, including Vietnam, Pakistan and Germany, after the 20th CPC National Congress, Wang said they not only created peaks for head-of-state diplomacy this year, but also made “a good start to the work of the CPC’s new collective central leadership in China’s foreign affairs.”

The foreign minister also mentioned the international support for the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the Global Development Initiative (GDI) in the speech.

The GSI and GDI were respectively proposed by Xi at the Boao Forum for Asia in April 2022 and at the general debate of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021.

To date, more than 70 countries have expressed support for the GSI, and more than 100 countries and a number of international organizations, including the UN, have committed support to the GDI and nearly 70 countries have joined the Group of Friends of the GDI, Wang said.

Relations with major countries and regions were also highlighted in Wang’s speech.

From two phone calls to a face-to-face meeting in Bali between Xi and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden, Wang said the candid and in-depth communication between the two presidents was constructive and strategic.

“Playing up competition does all harm and no good, and seeking cooperation is a necessity not a choice,” said Wang, adding that China calls on the U.S. to work together to put in place the pillars and a solid foundation for the healthy and stable growth of China-U.S. relations.

Noting Xi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s two personal meetings respectively in Beijing in February and in Samarkand in September, Wang said both provided strategic guidance for China-Russia relations to move ahead under new circumstances.

Mentioning the ongoing Ukraine crisis, Wang said China has kept to the right direction of promoting peace talks, searched for a solution that addresses root causes of the issue, and stood firm as an anchor of peace instead of fanning the flame of the conflict.

While staying committed to enhancing the friendship and cooperation with both developed and developing countries, Wang noted Xi’s attendance at the first China-Arab States Summit and the China-Gulf Cooperation Council had made the China-Arab relations take historic strides forward.

“As two significant forces and major civilizations, China and the Arab world have joined hands and supported each other in advancing our respective national rejuvenation endeavors and promoting regional peace and development,” Wang said.

Looking ahead to 2023, Wang said that China will keep on promoting major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics as the world’s largest developing country embarks on the new journey to build it into a modern socialist country in all respects.

“We will maintain a global vision, forge ahead with greater resolve, and write a new chapter and secure new successes in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics from a broader perspective and through stronger actions,” Wang said.

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BEIJING, Dec. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As multiple regions in China have seen surging COVID-19 infections, local governments are taking swift and precise measures to prevent severe cases, protect people’s health, and build a barrier against the epidemic.

These measures include providing timely medical treatment, meeting medicine needs, improving health services for the elderly and other key groups, promoting COVID-19 vaccination, and strengthening epidemic prevention and control in rural areas.

Fever clinics in full swing

In recent days, multiple Chinese cities have opened fever clinics in gymnasiums or turned nucleic acid testing booths into temporary fever clinics to relieve the pressure of medical treatment and some of them operate 24 hours a day.

Besides, medical institutions at all levels are optimizing procedures, expanding resources, and increasing medical staff on duty to make every effort to address the urgent and anxious needs of the patients.

Such as Shanghai, fever clinics in 145 secondary and higher-level hospitals have been asked to be fully open to meet the needs of people for medical services.

Internet hospitals are also opened in many cities to ensure that residents can seek medical treatment without leaving their homes.

The Beijing municipal health commission said on Wednesday that 65,000 fever patients were treated in the city’s fever clinics, a decrease of 11 percent from the recent peak of 73,000. The demand for fever clinics has generally eased, it said.

Medical services prioritized in key groups

The National Health Commission has asked grassroots medical institutions to set up ledgers for special groups such as the elderly living alone, pregnant women and patients with underlying health conditions, to ensure necessary medical services.

It ordered local civil affairs departments to carry out thorough investigations in high-risk locations, including the assessment of drug reserves, medical treatment, health services, vaccination services and emergency response capabilities.

At a community health service center in Shanghai, family doctors were seen carefully assessing the health status of residents, paying special attention to the elderly over 80 years old, patients with chronic diseases, hemodialysis patients, cancer patients and pregnant women.

Epidemic prevention and control strengthened in rural areas

In response to the relative shortage of health service resources in rural areas and increased population flows during the New Year and Spring Festival holidays, when people working in cities often return to their hometowns, local governments are strengthening epidemic prevention and control and health services in rural areas.

The construction of fever clinics in township hospitals is an important part of epidemic prevention in rural areas.

Take the city of Jiaozhou in east China’s Shandong Province as an example. The Jiaozhou municipal health commission has set up 536 community medical points and organized 446 medical personnel and volunteers to provide medical services to villages.

There are at least two medical personnel in each village clinic and medical point, offering 24-hour medical services such as consultation, medicine dispense, and patient transfer for key groups.

Ramping up vaccination

In China, over 90 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. Almost 87 percent of people over the age of 60 have been fully vaccinated, but only 66.4 percent of the people over 80 have completed a full course of vaccination.

With a population of 267 million aged above 60, China is accelerating vaccination among this group. In late November, the country released a work plan to improve the vaccination rate among the elderly.

Measures such as the “green channels” for the elderly are also adopted in different places to boost the vaccination rate.

With the optimization of epidemic control measures, the focus of China’s epidemic response strategy was shifted from infection control to case treatment with the objective of preventing severe cases.

China’s average life expectancy, a basic measure of national well-being, increased from 77.3 years in 2019 to 78.2 years in 2021, despite the gap in per capita medical resources and medical technology between the world’s most populous country and developed ones.

Upholding the people-centered philosophy, China managed to contain rounds of outbreaks. Facts and figures show some laudable “grade marks” of China’s epidemic response over the past three years and offer a glimpse into certain outlooks on endeavors toward the upcoming normal life.

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