Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled its new notebook series the Galaxy Book Pro that sport OLED panels at its Unpacked event.Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 will come in 15.6-inch and 13.3-inch sizes. The 360 model has a 360-degree revolving screen and offers S Pen support.A total of f

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Wednesday that it has recorded 2.37 trillion won in sales and 331.5 billion won in operating income for the first quarter.It is an increase of 11% and 99%, respectively, from a year ago.The figures are slightly above South Korean analysts’ consensus of 2.34 trillion

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that the family of late chairman Lee Kun-hee will pay over 12 trillion in inheritance tax.They will also pay 1 trillion won in donation for philanthropic works.Members of the family hope to honor the life of the late chairman and his “commitment to corporate cit

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has launched a new enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) for servers based on the 24G SAS (SAS-4) specification.PM1653 is made using the company’s Gen 6 V-NAND. It will come in various capacities up to 30.72TB.SAS, or Serial Attached SCSI, is an interface des

South Korean printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Isu Petasys is exiting its high density interconnect (HDI) board and flexible PCB (FPCB) business, TheElec has learned.The company notified its customers, which includes Samsung Electronics, and its employees of the exit, people familiar with the

Samsung Electronics will launch its low-tier Galaxy M12 smartphone in South Korea on Wednesday.The phone, which will only come in black, will be sold online priced at 198,000 won.M12 will have a 90Hz refresh rate 6.5-inch screen. It will have four cameras on its back: a 48MP main shooter, a 5MP ultr

The global semiconductor material market was worth US$55.3 billion in 2020, according to SEMI.This was a rise of 5% from 2019, the organization said. This year, it will grow 6% to be worth US$58.7 billion, SEMI said.South Korea, Taiwan and China will lead this growth. South Korea’s semiconductor mat

Chinese camera module firm O’Film Group has been kicked out of Samsung Electronics’ supply chain for smartphones, TheElec has learned.The company was kicked out of Apple’s supply chain last year year. In July, the US Department of Commerce had included O’Film Group among a list of eleven Chinese com

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has refused to take part in a preliminary review for a South Korean government project to develop next-generation processing-in-memory (PIM).The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has chosen PIM AI semiconductor as a national p

Around 169 million units of iPhone OLED panels will be shipped this year, according to market research firm Omdia.This is 47.6% higher than the 114.5 million units shipped in 2020. The 169 million units includes legacy OLED iPhone models as well as those for new models launching later this year. App

Seoul Semiconductor has entered Samsung Electronics’ supply chain for MiniLED, TheElec has learned.The volume is yet small, but could lead to bigger collaboration between the pair in MiniLED and MicroLED in the future.Seoul Semiconductor has supplied its MiniLED to Samsung for use in Neo QLED TVs, w

Samsung Display has begun production at its OLED plant in Noida, India, TheElec has learned.The OLED display panels produced at the plant will be supplied to Samsung Electronics for the smartphones it sells in the country.According to market research firm Canalys, Xiaomi was the largest smartphone v

Seoul Semiconductor ranked third in LED package in 2020 in terms of sales. The company, citing data from market research firm Omdia, said its LED package sales grew 4.3% year-on-year, allowing to surpass Lumileds to take third place.Japan’s Nichia ranked first with US$1.766 billion in sales. Germany

South Korean flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) maker SI Flex is planning to move its headquarters to Suwon in June, the company said on Thursday.The company is currently based in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province but it will move to Yeongtong county in Suwon city.It sold its existing factory at Ansan. A

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has launched a new automotive LED module that can be used in intelligent headlights such as adaptive driving beam systems.Called PixCell LED, they will improve driver visibility and safety, the company said.Samsung monolithically integrated more than 100

Samsung Electronics is planning to use batteries made by China’s Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) and Samsung SDI for its new smartwatch, tentatively called the Galaxy Watch 4, TheElec has learned.The two battery makers will supply their products for the initial stock of the watches, people familiar

SK Hynix has formed a new group that will focus on development of fab equipment technologies, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory maker had hired an outside expert and named them an executive vice president to lead the fab equipment development group.The group will be under direction supervi

South Korean cover glass company JNTC will be supplying cover glass for the display on a new electric vehicle by Mercedes-Benz that will launch in the second half of the year, TheElec has learned.The firm will be the exclusive supplier of the cover glasses used for the user experience hyperscreen (M

Samsung Electronics is planning to sell around 400 units of fab equipment to UMC to be used in the latter’s factory in Taiwan, according Taiwan Economic Daily.The pair has recently signed a contract for UMC to manufacture Samsung’s image sensors.The equipment will be used in UMC’s P6 plant at Nanke.

Whether Samsung Display will commence its second stage spending on its quantum dot (QD)-OLED display panel this year as planned will be determined by the yield rate of its Q1 production line, according to market research firm Omdia.The company had planned to commence its second stage spending near t