India’s Ola Group is planning to build its own battery cell production line and is meeting Korean equipment makers for the plan, TheElec has learned.It is aiming to complete the installation of production equipment by the first half of next year and start commercial production in the same year, sour

SK Hynix has placed a large order to procure thermal compression (TC) bonders to Hong Kong-based ASMPT, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker has ordered over 30 units for the equipment that will be used in the production of HBM3E 12H, its latest iteration of high-bandwidth memory, sourc

Nain Tech was developing and researching a film for use in solid electrolytes.The company’s affiliate Energy11 told TheElec that the research was going smoothly and that it is aiming to launch the product next year.The film aims to be in solid-state batteries that use oxide hybrid solid electrolytes

South Korean battery maker SK On is planning to build a pilot production line to manufacture prismatic batteries starting next month, TheElec has learned.It has been three years since SK On announced that it plans to manufacture prismatic batteries. The battery maker’s current main offering is pouch

German laser company LPKF has denied South Korean counterpart Philoptics’ allegations that disparaged its through glass via (TGV) technology.Earlier this month, Philoptics claimed that its rival’s technology could only offer one hole size and that its own technology was superior in the fact that it

SK Hynix is planning to convert one of its main DRAM production lines to manufacture high-bandwidth memory (HBM) instead due to high demand for the latter memory type, TheElec has learned.The line, M10F, located at its Icheon facility in South Korea, is already going through changes for it to manufa

Woowon Technology developed a new equipment that can stack the cathode, anode and separator for prismatic batteries in 0.3 seconds, the company said on Monday.The previous fastest stacking equipment was those for pouch batteries which performed the task in 0.35 seconds.Woowon Technology said its equ

Samsung was testing gas cluster beam (GCB) equipment supplied by fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron to improve its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process, TheElec has learned.The equipment, called Acrevia, is used to shape local areas of the wafer using ion beams.Tokyo Electron previously said the equipm

South Korean battery equipment maker CIS said on Tuesday that it will merge with affiliate SNU Precision.The battery equipment maker will hold a shareholders meeting for the decision on October 29. CIS and SNU Precision will merge on a 1:0.1994714 ratio on December 1.CIS is a battery equipment maker

SNU Precision has won an order from Chinese microdisplay maker BCDTEK to supply its OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) deposition equipment, TheElec has learned.The equipment are used to deposit OLED on silicon wafers. Display made this way, which are usually in the 1-inch range in size, are used in realty de

Hanwha Momentum is planning to launch its own overhead hoist transport (OHT) used to transport wafers during chip production.The company has been developing the equipment since last year in February, it revealed in its latest filings to financial authorities on Tuesday.Hanwha Momentum said it finish

X-ray equipment maker Xavis is in talks with Samsung to supply its glass board inspection equipment, TheElec has learned.The kit is used to check whether the copper circuits have properly formed after the through glass via (TGV) process.Xavis is still developing the equipment and is getting feedback

Battery equipment maker PNT is planning to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cell production line within the year, TheElec has learned.The production line will be set up at its facility in Gumi with an annual capacity of 0.5GWh, sources said.The batteries will be prismatic and is aimed fo

South Korean fab equipment maker SFA will supply overhead hoist transports (OHT) and stockers to chipmaker Micron, TheElec has learned.The equipment maker has already started installation of some of the equipment at Micron’s fab in Gujarat, India, sources said.The deal is worth 50 billion won but co

South Korean battery equipment makers have been invited to Morrow Batteries’ event to celebrate the start of operation of its new battery factory.Multiple domestic equipment makers took part in the forming of the factory, which started construction in 2022.South Korean equipment makers also supplied

DSK has won an order to supply notching equipment from the battery joint venture between Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution based in the US, TheElec has learned.The venture, HL-GA, has placed orders for the equipment for two out of its nine production lines, sources said.The equipment costs around

Avaco will be supplying its electrode equipment to battery maker LG Energy Solution, TheElec has learned.The company will be supplying its roll press and slitter equipment under the deal, which was two years in the making.Avaco’s kits were tested for over a year and were expected to be supplied last

Park Systems has supplied its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask repair equipment, called NX-Mask, to a global foundry company, TheElec has learned.It had provided a test version of the equipment before and now the chip foundry has placed an official order in the second quarter of the year, sources said

SK Hynix has replaced the gas it uses in some of its cleaning process steps in chip production with a more environmentally friendly gas.According to the chipmaker’s sustainability report for 2024, the company conducted tests to replace nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) with a gas with low global warming po

Hanwha Precision Machinery expects its back-end fab equipment business unit to turn to the black next year.Parent company Hanwha Aerospace also said in its filings to financial authorities earlier this month that Hanwha Precision Machinery’s front-end and back-end fab equipment business units togeth