Hydrogen car component firm Neuros is hoping that high demand from hydrogen cars can save it from being delisted from KOSDAQ, South Korea’s major bourse.Shares of the company stopped trading in March after an audit from an audit firm refused to draw a conclusion of the firm’s annual sales for 2020 i

Isu Petasys CEO Seo Young-joon said on Thursday that the company’s subsidiary in Hunan province in China has turned a profit in the second quarter.It is the unit’s first profit since 2013, when Isu Petasys acquired the factory from Taiwan’s TTL.Seo said the network printed circuit board (PCB) compan

Mando Hella Electronics will build a road surface detection system at the city of Pohang, TheElec has learned.The company has formed a consortium with Posco and other companies for the project called Vision Zero Consortium.The system will sense in real time frosts, water curtains and damages on the

Hyundai Mobis, the car component making arm of Hyundai Motor, is expected to return to profitability this year, according to South Korean analysts.This is thanks to high demand for electric cars __ Hyundai Motor is preparing to manufacture Ioniq 6, its latest electric car model soon.Hyundai Motor ha

Samsung on Tuesday said it was launching a new image sensor aimed at automobiles.Isocell Auto 4AC is the first of the South Korean company’s image sensor to receive the AEC-Q100 certification for automobile component reliability.The sensor can operate at temperatures ranging for minus 40 Celsius to

LG InnoTek and Corning are collaborating in the research of liquid lens, their patent filings showed.The pair had decided to share 50/50 stakes in nine US patents related to liquid lens on April 5, documents seen by TheElec showed.Corning decided to share stakes in six of its patents with LG InnoTek

South Korean ministries have started discussion over which technology standard to use for cooperative intelligent transport system (C-ITS) in the country.The Ministry of Economy and Finance will coordinate with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry and Science and ICT t

LG InnoTek has completed selling its 114 patents in South Korea related to LED technologies to Chinese company Suzhou LEKIN Semiconductor, TheElec has learned.The transaction was completed on July 2, according South Korea patent portal Kipris run by the Korean Intellectual Property Office.LG InnoTek

A Samsung Electro-Mechanics executive said on Wednesday that the company was researching metalens.Metalens is a flat lens that have nano particles aligned on its surface.Though the lens is flat, the particles bend the light to collect them.The technology allows lens to be made thinner than they are

Mando Hella Electronics on Wednesday introduced its smart tire monitoring sensor (STMS) that it was developing for autonomous vehicles.Mando Hella Electronics executive director Kim Wan-il said at an online event that the sensor will increase safety during driving compared to the previous tire press

The global OLED mask market is expected to grow 10% from 2020 this year to be worth US$354 million, according to market research firm Omdia.But it will grow 34% year-on-year in 2022 to be worth US$476 million, the firm said.Fine metal masks account for 98% of OLED masks. They are used to deposit red

Dong Yang Piston will manufacture the heat dissipation module used in Kia EV6 GT launching next year, the company said on Monday.The module is used to cool the power management semiconductor used in the inverter on EV6 GT.The module will go through Hyundai Mobis before being supplied to Kia EV6 GT,

South Korea board maker BH will be supplying over half of the rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCB) used in Apple’s new iPhones launching later this year, TheElec has learned.BH will be supplying mid-50% of the board used, while Samsung Electro-Mechanics will supply 30%. Youngpoong Electroni

LG Electronics’ joint venture with Magna International has inaugurated on Thursday.The pair’s respective boards approved the split off and named the CEO and executives of LG Magna e-Powertrain.The first CEO will be Jung Won-seok, who previous was the head of of green business of LG Electronics’ vehi

LG Chem is aiming to expand its supply of blue OLED emission layer to LG Display this year, TheElec has learned.LG Chem is hoping to supply the blue host for the WBE material set used by LG Display for their large-sized OLED panels.An OLED material set is comprised of an emission layer __ which admi

Hyundai Motor and Kia are considering applying high efficiency carbon nanotube (CNT) heater on their next-generation electric vehicles, TheElec has learned.The companies recently held discussions to apply CNT heaters instead positive temperature coefficient (PTC) ones on some of their premium electr

Haesung DS is expected to beat market expectations in its second quarter operating income, TheElec has learned.The automobile chip board company is expected to record late-10 billion won in operating income in the quarter, people familiar with the matter said.This will be around 20% higher than the

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that it has developed a new 1005 (1.0mm x 0.5mm) multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC).The capacitor has 20% increased power capacity, from 22uF to 27uF, compared to their predecessor, the company said.1005 MLCC, along with 0603 MLCC, are mostly used in smart

Panasonic has sold all its stakes in Tesla back in March, according to Nikkei.Nikkei said Panasonic likely secured 400 billion yen from the sales.The Japanese firm was the first supplier of cylinder batteries for electric vehicles to Tesla.The company will continue supplying its batteries to the US

Bare board testing firm Bioptro is seeing high demand from semiconductor boards, TheElec has learned.It is has already received enough orders for bare board testers to continue manufacturing them up to the end of 2021.This is thanks to high demand for semiconductor boards, which has also increased d