Lithium-ion battery separator maker PNT Ms successfully relisted on Kosdaq on Thursday.The Korean Exchange had said on Tuesday that the company’s shares can be traded again, three years and ten months after it was halted in December 2020.The move is a boon to parent company PNT which will be able to

Chinese display maker CSOT is planning to start production of OLED panels made with inkjet printing near the year’s end, TheElec has learned.TCL COST had said in December last year that it will launch inkjet printing OLED sometime during the second half of 2024.The technique uses a inkjet head nozzl

Samsung on Tuesday made a rare apology for its disappointing performance in the third quarter.In its preliminary earnings guidance, the South Korean tech giant said it expected revenue of 79 trillion won and operating profit of 9.1 trillion won, significantly lower than the consensus of domestic ana

Chip design house firm UnoSilicon said on Tuesday that it has received 3.5 billion won in funding from PNP Investment.It is the company’s first outside funding __ it said it plans to use the fund to expand its global customer base before going public on the Korean bourse in 2027.PNT Investment is a

LG Electronics’s profit in the third quarter dropped steeply despite also recording its highest revenue figure for the quarter.The South Korean manufacturer of home appliances and TVs said in its preliminary earnings guidance that it expects revenue of 22.17 trillion won and operating profit of 751.

Hyundai Mobis has developed an LED lamp for use as stoplight and tail light in cars with wider dispersion angle than before.The high luminance optical light is being promoted to customers, sources said.The LED lamp, which offers a 160 degrees dispersion angle, is a successor to HLED launched in 2021

LG Energy Solution said on Monday that it will aim to exceed 66 trillion won in annual revenue by the year 2028.This will be more than double its revenue last year of 33.74 trillion won.LG Energy Solution CEO Kim Dong Myung said the battery maker wanted sustainable growth while also focusing on the

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

Contract prices of DRAM and NAND dipped in September from low demand for PCs and consumer electronics.DDR4 8Gb 1Gx8 saw a month-on-month price drop of 17.07% to US$1.7 in September, according to analyst firm DRAMeXchange.DRAM prices were on a steady climb since October last year but dropped for the

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

EcoPro BM said on Thursday that it plans to collaborate with Hyundai Motor Group and Hyundai Steel to develop lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cathode at a dramatically reduced cost.Hyundai Steel will recycle scrap metal to make iron powder which will be converted to LFP cathode by EcoPro BM. Hy

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has begun manufacturing 36GB 12-stack HBM3E, or HBM3E 12H, becoming the world’s first memory maker to do so.Its predecessor 8-stack HBM3E was made with 3GB DRAM chips and offered 24GB in capacity.SK Hynix said it will begin supplying its newest chip to its customer

LG Chem said on Wednesday that it was developing a thermal adhesive for cell to pack batteries.Subsidiary LG Energy Solution recently unveiled its cell to pack pouch batteries that come in high-nickel and mid-nickel variations.LG Chem is likely preparing to adhesive to supply them to its battery-mak

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

DB Hitek is close to clinching a ten-year contract to manufacture power management ICs that will go into Tesla vehicles, TheElec has learned.Staff overseeing quality control for chips for the US carmaker had visited DB Hitek’s facility at Bucheon, South Korea back in June for an inspection.Following

Memory makers are attempting to win over server operating system developers to get an edge on the Compute Express Link (CXL) market on the horizon.Samsung, the world’s largest memory maker, is collaborating with Linux giant Red Hat, while rival SK Hynix seems to be aiming to win over the entire ecos

LG Chem said it will be supplying cathode to Prime Planet Energy & Solutions, the battery joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic.PPES was formed in April 2020 and manufactures prismatic batteries in Japan and China.LG Chem will be supplying its cathode to PPES’ factory in Japan with a target dat

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

When Apple will apply under panel face ID technology to its iPhones is up in the air as display suppliers are yet to secure the necessary technologies, TheElec has learned.For Cupertino to commercialize the technology, both its major display suppliers Samsung Display and LG Display need to deliver.T