BlueOval SK, the battery joint venture between SK On and Ford, is unlikely to Chinese equipment maker for its planned factory in the US due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China.Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors, had also excluded Chinese suppl

ASML’s highly anticipated high-NA EUV equipment will begin shipping in 2024 and cost between 300 to 350 million euros per unit, CEO Peter Wennink said in a conference in Seoul on Tuesday.High-numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) is an upgraded version of the Dutch company’s prior EUV eq

LG Display’s plan to invest in OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) production is facing delays.The company was originally expected to place orders for the equipment needed for production sometime in the third quarter.But LG Display is yet to do so and a decision is unlikely until December, sources said.OLEDoS

HB Solution will be supplying quantum dot (QD) inkjet equipment to Samsung Display by the end of this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used to form the QD color conversion layer used in QD-OLED panels made by Samsung Display in its Q1 production line.HB Solution announced that it had

Samsung is planning to manufacture 59.86 units of smartphones using joint development manufacturers (JDM) next year, TheElec has learned.The company shared this plan with its suppliers in its recent meeting with them where it laid out its annual plan for 2023.Samsung currently uses four JDMs, includ

Executives of Samsung’s chip division have been more collaborative and communicative with their counterparts at partner and supplier companies since the tech giant named Kyung Kye-hyun as the division president, TheElec has learned.Multiple sources have said executives of Samsung Device Solution (DS

Fab equipment component maker BC&C is developing new products its main focus rings for new revenue.The company is developing ceramic test sockets and tantalum sputtering targets with the goal to launch prototypes sometime between 2023 and 2024, the company said.Test sockets are used to test packaged

Ford had recently made a request to South Korean battery maker SK On that many working at production equipment suppliers as a veil to learn battery production technologies, TheElec has learned.The US car giant wants its own employees to work with those from SK On when they begin installing and opera

Chinese display panel makers Tianma and CSOT are expected to resume spending and order equipment within the year, sources from South Korean equipment makers told TheElec.This is thanks to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s being expected to secure a third term during the National Congress that will last

Japan’s Canon Tokki is the leader in OLED deposition equipment and the industry is watching closely whether they will maintain this leadership in the era of Gen 8 OLED as it did the prior generations.Samsung Display and LG Display, the company’s main customers, are currently developing equipment for

SK On has recently conducted a demo test for tab welding equipment provided by South Korean equipment maker Toptec, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker always asks potential new suppliers to provide a demo equipment firm.The process, called turn on, is done to gauge whether the suppli

Nextin is preparing to launch its new inspection equipment for 3D NAND.The company had co-developed the kit with Intel but will not be supplying them to the US chip giant, sources said.However, Nextin had won a supply deal with a South Korean memory chipmaker, they said.The equipment, called IRIS, i

Production equipment maker DSK has begun supplying logistics equipment to South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution, TheElec has learned.It was supplying them through LG Electronics’ Production engineering Research Institute (PRI), not to LG Energy Solution directly, sources said.DSK had in the

Hanwha Corporation has hired a former executive at Samsung SDI who worked on battery equipment, TheElec has learned.STM vice president Ryu Yang-sik recently quit the company to join Hanwha Momentum, Hanwha’s business unit that manufactures battery equipment.He will head the battery business of the u

Production equipment maker AP Systems is aiming to manufacture more fab equipment next year to reach 100 billion won in revenue from the business.The company, which had specialized more in display equipment in the past, is aiming to have the fab equipment business account for 20% of its total revenu

There will be no spending on equipment related to the production of large OLED panels used in TVs and monitors next year, analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said in its forecast.Such panels are made by South Korean companies LG Display and Samsung Display.DSCC said spending on equi

Samsung Display and LG Display is opting to use larger substrates for the production OLED panels aimed at IT devices besides smartphones, TheElec has learned.They are developing the substrate to be Gen 8.7 (2290x2620mm) slightly larger than Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrates commonly adopted as Gen 8

Samsung Display is showing interest in an OLED panel production technology that doesn’t require the use of masks, TheElec has learned.A high-level executive of the South Korean display panel maker recently visited its equipment supplier Applied Materials’ headquarters in the US to discuss JDI’s eLEA

S&S Tech is planning to install key equipment that will allow it to manufacture extreme ultraviolet (EUV) blank masks, TheElec has learned.The mask maker is planning to install ion beam deposition (IBD) machines from US company Veeco Instruments.The installation of such equipment means S&S Tech has

Samsung is planning to secure more production capacity for OLED display driver ICs from its contract chip maker UMC of Taiwan next year.Samsung System LSI, the unit that designs logic chips, is expected to order more of its display driver ICs made due to high demand for them by key customers, source