Hyundai Motor Group and SK Innovation will co-develop a pouch battery for hybrid electric vehicles, the pair said on Friday.The battery will be used on hybrid EVs launching in 2024, they said.SK Innovation had supplied the battery for Hyundai BlueOn EV in 2010. The company also supplied its battery

Seoul Semiconductor ranked third in LED package in 2020 in terms of sales. The company, citing data from market research firm Omdia, said its LED package sales grew 4.3% year-on-year, allowing to surpass Lumileds to take third place.Japan’s Nichia ranked first with US$1.766 billion in sales. Germany

Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors, is planning to build a second factory at Tennessee.The US$2.3 billion factory will be built in Spring Hill, Tennessee, according to Reuters.The batteries made in the second factory will be for Cadillac Lyriq electric cros

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has launched a new automotive LED module that can be used in intelligent headlights such as adaptive driving beam systems.Called PixCell LED, they will improve driver visibility and safety, the company said.Samsung monolithically integrated more than 100

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Thursday that it has developed a new multi level ceramic capacitor (MLCC) which is 0402 (0.4mm horizontally, 0.2mm vertically) in size, has 1.0uF capacity, and 6.3V.MLCC delivers electricity to the core components within devices, making the capacity and voltage thei

LG Display said on Thursday that its emission of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) dropped by 3 million tonnes in 2020 compared to 2014.The company spend 37 billion won to change the gas used in display production that led to lower emission of carbon dioxide, the company said.It also installed equi

GlobalFoundries Korea has named former Teradyne Korea president Kim Jong-ha as its new country manager.Kim will oversee GlobalFoundries’ operations, sales and marketing in South Korea.He previously worked at Qualcomm and Intel’s South Korean subsidiaries as well as Samsung’s chip business.Kim has in

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has began to manufacture its new solid-state drive (SSD) called PE8110 E1.S.The SSD is aimed at servers and the company will begin supplying them to customers in May.PE8110 E1.S is based on 128-layer NAND. SK Hynix said the new SSD has improved writing and reading s

South Korean battery separator firm Enerever Battery Solution said on Wednesday that it will build a new factory at Wanju, North Jeolla Province.The firm and Wanju county signed an agreement for the factory on the same day.Enerever will spend 127.6 billion won up to 2026 to build the factory on 32,7

Posco will be building a new lithium extraction plant at Gwangyang, the company said.The plant will have an annual production capacity of 43,000 metric tonnes. Construction will start in the first half 2021. The plant will be completed in 2023.The amount is enough to power a million electric vehicle

A senior executive at Samsung Display has won a prestigious award given by the Society for Information Display (SID).Samsung Display president Kim Sang-chul was awarded the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize by SID, for his contribution to the mass production of high-resolution OLED panels based on low-temp

LG Chem said on Wednesday that its second carbon nanotube (CNT) factory at Yeosu has finished construction and began production.With the factory going live, the company’s annual CNT production capacity has now increased from 500 metric tonnes to 1,700 metric tonnes.CNT has the same levels of heat co

Merck Electronics may invest over 200 million euros for the next five years in South Korea to expand its facilities in the country.The firm had agreed with Gyeonggi Province to expand investment and foster talents in semiconductors and displays together on Tuesday.Merch Electronics CEO Kai Beckmann

SK IE Technology’s second battery separator factory in Changzhou, China has begin operation, the company said on Tuesday.Out of the factory’s total production capacity of 340 million meter-square, 170 million meter-square has gone live, the subsidiary to SK Innovation said.Combined with the first fa

The San Diego Supercomputer Center will use chips from Intel subsidiary Habana in its Voyager artificial intelligence (AI) system.Voyager will be powered by 336 Habana Gaudi processors built for AI workloads. Gaudi natively has ten 100Gb Ethernet ports of RoCE v2 to minimize throughput bottlenecks.T

LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have settled their battery lawsuit, the companies announced on Sunday.The pair’s settlement comes a day before the deadline for US President Joe Biden to exercise his rights to veto a ruling made by the International Trade Commission in February.The commission ha

Philoptics said on Friday that it has won additional orders for its back side align (BSA) direct image (DI) exposure machine used in semiconductor production.The machines uses special lighting and camera to detect BSA mark on wafers. It can increase the accuracy of the alignment between the front an

Robotic automation firm Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in May. The company filed a security report for the listing to financial authorities on Friday.The company previously listed on KONEX in 2015. It is planning to list on the higher tier bourse through the special exemption rule for technol

Kolon Industries and SK Global Chemical launch a new biodegradable plastic in the third quarter, the pair said on Wednesday.The new plastic will be poly butylene adipate-co-teraphthalate (PBAT). Once these are buried underground, 90% of them will be degraded within six months, the companies said.The

ACM Research on Wednesday announced in South Korea that its 300mm Ultra Fn furnace dry processing equipment will support additional semiconductor manufacturing processes.The additions are: un-doped poly deposition, doped poly deposition, gate oxide deposition, high-temperature oxidation and high-tem