Apple is expected to use ‘hybrid’ OLED panels in its first OLED iPad that it will launch a few years from now, TheElec has learned.Hybrid OLED panels refer to OLED panels that use both rigid OLED panel and flexible OLED panel technologies.Rigid OLED panels use glass as substrates while flexible OLED

Fab equipment maker Jusung Engineering has hired a well-known executive who previously worked at SK Hynix as its head of sales.Lee Sang-sun, who was previously vice president at SK Hynix, has been named vice chairman of sales of the fab equipment maker.Lee, 61, held key positions in the South Korean

LOT Vacuum is planning to develop dry vacuum pump technology for atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, which is being used more and more in advanced semiconductor process nodes.The technology is aimed at application in the latest memory chip processes, sources said.The company already supplies ch

Samsung Display was considering both ultra-thin glass (UTG) and transparent polyimide (PI) film to use as cover windows for foldable OLED panels aimed at tablets and notebooks, TheElec has learned.The company currently uses UTG for foldable OLED panels it manufactures for smartphones such as the Gal

LG Energy Solution and Honda said on Monday that the pair plans to form a joint venture to build a battery factory in the US.The two companies will spend a total of US$4.4 billion on the factory which will have an annual production capacity of 40GWh.It is the first joint venture between a South Kore

Samsung Display was developing quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels that were thinner than its current commercialized version.This was confirmed by the booth of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute during the 22nd International Meeting of Information Display (IMID 2022) held at Busan, S

Posco Chemical said on Thursday that it won a long-term deal worth 1.05 trillion won to supply battery cathode for use in energy storage systems.The deal is worth 52.9% of its revenue last year and will last until 2026.The South Korean chemical firm didn’t reveal its customer but said its cathodes w

Samsung Display is planning to expand the production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels by 30% before the year’s end, TheElec has learned.The company plans to achieve this by reducing the takt time __ the time it takes to manufacture a product __ without additional spending on equipment, sourc

Avaco has succeeded in winning an order for copper foil slitters from Iljin Materials, TheElec has learned.The deal is a big win for Avaco, which has been aiming to expand in the battery production equipment sector since 2020. Prior to the expansion, the company had mostly manufactured display produ

An executive of US firm eMagin said the company was also developing a tandem structure microOLED.Tandem structure stacks at least two emission layers, which increases luminance efficiency and extends the life of OLED panels.MicroOLED, meanwhile, uses a silicon wafer as the substrate to deposit the o

Machine vision equipment maker Intekplus will conduct equipment tests with two outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies.One is an OSAT company in the US and another is in China.The equipment being tested is surface equipment used in during the back-end process for semiconductors.I

Nsys said on Monday that it has completed its new battery production equipment factory that will manufacture inspection and formation equipment.The company spent 16.7 billion won on building the factory at Asan, which went into construction last year in October.Nsys specializes in battery inspection

SK Siltron is expected to complete its new silicon carbide (SiC) wafer factory in Michigan next month.The South Korean wafer maker acquired Dupont’s SiC wafer business based in the US state in 2020, at the same time forming its subsidiary Siltron CSS there.The subsidiary has been building a factory

Samsung on Friday said it will spend 20 trillion won by 2028 to build a new chip research complex at its campus in Giheung, South Korea.The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, who stressed that the company’s chip business wouldn’t exist if it didn’t emphasize

South Korean chip fabless firm LX Semicon has formed a research team dedicated to developing display driver ICs for automobiles, TheElec has learned.The team is within the research team that reports directly to CEO Boik Sohn.The team, called Auto Development Part, will develop display driver ICs for

German material giant Merck will acquire South Korean semiconductor component and material firm Mecaro’s precursor business for 110 million euros, the pair announced on Wednesday.Merck’s South Korean subsidiary Versum Materials Korea will acquire the entire stake of Mecaro’s precursor business when

Display equipment maker Toptec is expected to take part in the bidding process for BlueOval SK’s battery equipment order next month, TheElec has learned.The joint venture between battery maker SK On and US car giant Ford is planning to place orders for equipment it will use for its planned factory i

SFA is aiming to develop a coater used in battery production that is much smaller than conventional versions.SFA CEO Kim Young-min said on Tuesday doing the company’s conference call for the first half of 2022 that the move was part of SFA’s current focus on fostering its battery equipment business.

Samsung has dropped its smartphone shipment target for 2022 from the previous 300 million units to 260 million units, TheElec has learned.Earlier in the year, the South Korean tech giant had planned to manufacture a total of 334 million units of smartphones with the goal of shipping around 300 milli

BlueOval SK, the battery joint venture between SK On and Ford, is expected to resume spending on building battery factories in the US next month, TheElec has learned.The latest spending round will be their planned factory in Tennessee. BlueOval SK is expected to spend 3 trillion won in total for the