South Korea’s national electric utility had use telecommunication modules made by a Chinese company for a million units of remote metering devices, TheElec has learned.The use has raised criticism that China-made modules are being used for the network of sensitive electric data that is part of a cou

Samsung Display has been ordered by a court in Seoul on Friday to compensate its former employee for their invetion.The employee, who have requested compensation of 150 billion won, had said they will appeal. The dispute between the pair is expected to continue to the appeals court.Samsung Display w

The US’s International Trade Commission (ITC) has rejected SK Innovation’s claim that the lawsuit filed by LG Chem over electric vehicle battery technology theft is invalid.Back in August, the Central District Court in Seoul had also rejected the same claim made by SK Innovation.SK Innovation has cl

Semiconductor package boding wire company MK Electron is expanding its supply of solder paste, tape and film, TheElec has confirmed.The company is seeing “meaningful” sales from solder paste and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding disposable films, a MK Electron official said.The materials

China’s SmartSens has secured US$225 million in investment in its latest funding round, the company said on Friday.The firm will focus on developing chip architecture for CMOS image sensors (CIS) with the latest funds.State-owned China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund, Xiaomi Changing Industrial F

Battery equipment Koem has supplied its winder kit to Tesla, TheElec has learned.The kits will be used by the US electric car maker for its own battery factory that will produce 46800 batteries.The equipment was supplied to the Tesla factory in Fremont, California. It will be used for the battery pi

Battery production equipment maker CIS will start development of all solid-state battery production lines, the company said on Monday.The company was named to lead the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s national projects to development solid-state battery’s electrode plate and cell production

LG InnoTek said on Wednesday that it was existing LED business.It the first official confirmation from the company itself that it was doing so.Last year in October, LG InnoTek has already decided to exit the LED business and told its retailers that it was planning to halt LED chip and package produc

The final judgment on the trade secret leak lawsuit between LG Chem and SK Innovation has been pushed backed again by the US International Trade Commission (ITC).The ITC has said the final judgment will come on December 10. It is the second postponement by the agency.It didn’t say why it was delayin

US’s Cisco and South Korean network solution company Genians will collaborate in software-defined access (SDA) and network access control (NAC), the pair said on Monday.SDA will allow network to automatically recognize the user to apply the appropriate policy, Cisco said.The US company will share it

Semiconductor testing firm Nepes Ark is aiming to win a large order from Samsung Electronics to test CMOS image sensors (CIS), TheElec has learned.Samsung is expanding its CIS production to catch up to market leader Sony, which is making it difficult for the South Korean tech to test them all on its

US carrier Verizon has requested that Samsung Electronics not use Chinese components related to their recent 7.9 trillion won network kit supply deal, people familiar with the matter said.South Korean printed circuit board (PCB) maker Isu Petasys was aiming to become a replacement supplier for PCBs

SFA will expand globally as a smart factory solution company based on its experiences in making kits for semiconductor, display and battery productions, the company said.The company unveiled its smart factory brand called NEO on Monday.SFA said it will be original, complete and comprehensive in its

US materials company Inpria has begun production of MOx-based inorganic photoresist (PR).Its high volume manufacturing facility has gone live recently and the company will be able to service the demand for inorganic PR, Inpria CEO Andrew Grenvile said at SMC 2020 hosted by SEMI.The facility has a pr

Hana Technology is preparing to enter the electrolyte production process equipment market next year, the company said.This will allow it to offer all battery production kit from inspection to production in turn-key, the company said.Hana Technology was founded in 2000 as Hana ENG. It changed its nam

Samsung Corning Advanced Glass has filed almost no patents for the past seven years, TheElec has learned.The company filed patents actively after being founded but this has dropped and is acting more as a production-focused entity.This contrast with Corning Precision Materials, formerly called Samsu

Laser equipment maker Philoptics will begin producing samples of fine metal masks (FMM) for 6th-generation organic light emitting diode (OLED), the South Korean company said on Monday.FMM is used to deposit OLED materials on to the substrate. The OLED materials must not sag or expand from heat when

Samsung Electronics will begin production of the upcoming Galaxy S21 smartphone series in mid-December, TheElec has learned.This is a month faster than its predecessor Galaxy S20, which went into production in January with official sales starting in March.Galaxy S21 smartphones will likely start off

Samsung Electronics’ strong third quarter performance looks like it was in part from the conglomerate cutting unit prices of suppliers.Samsung Mobile and Samsung Display significantly reduced unit prices from suppliers in the third quarter compared to the same time period last year, people with dire

Samsung Electronics is considering investing into its 200mm semiconductor wafer production lines to make it semi-autonomous, TheElec has learned.The conglomerate’s 300mm wafer lines are currently fully automated. Wafers are transferred from chamber to chamber using over head transport machines.Howev