Samsung Display is expected to manufacture 18 million units of foldable OLED panels next year, according to analyst firm UBI Research’s forecast on Sunday.The South Korean display panel maker is expected to build more foldable OLED modules line next year, the firm said.Its subsidiary Dowooinsys, whi

Bare board tester (BBT) maker Bioptro has secured orders for BBT for up to February of next year, TheElec has learned.The testers will be used for chip board testing. High demand for chips is also increasing orders for equipment such as BBT.BBT inspects the electric characteristics of printed circui

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it has recorded 73.98 trillion won in revenue and 15.82 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.Its operating margin rate was 21.4% during the quarter.Revenue was its best for a quarter ever while operating profit was its second-h

Samsung Display has placed orders for equipment to its suppliers that it plans to use for its new mobile OLED production line, which will likely be called A4E, TheElec has learned.The new production line will use Gen 6 (1500x1850mm) substrates to manufacture small OLED panels that will be used in sm

The market for display panels below 9-inches in size was worth US$13.41 billion in the second quarter this year, an increase of 15% year-on-year, according to analyst firm Omdia.Samsung Display saw sales increase to US4.34 billion during the quarter, an increase of 50% year-on-year.Omdia said the co

Haesung Optics will collaborate with Humax Mobility and Electrine to develop a platform and the technology for electric ships.Haesung Optics said the company will develop the ship and battery monitoring system; Humax will develop the platform and charging system; and Electrine will develop the motor

LG Display has begun development of its own under display camera technology (UDC), TheElec has learned.The South Korean display panel maker was also currently developing hole-in display technology, sources said.Hole-in display punches a hole on the top side of OLED panel so that the front camera mod

The mobile inertial measurement unit (IMU) market is expected to be worth US$838 million in 2026, according to Yole Development.IMU uses the accelerometer, gyroscope or magnetometer within the device to report the angular rate and direction of a moving object,It is used in smartphones and tablets to

BOE, CSOT and Samsung Display were all developing the OLED panel that Samsung Electronics plans to use on its Galaxy A73 smartphone launching next year, TheElec has learned.The mobile business of Samsung Electronics will evaluate the OLED panels made by these three display panel makers and decide ho

Partron was supplying the camera modules for the around view monitor on the digital side mirror of Hyundai Motor’s GV60 which launched earlier this month.A Partron spokesperson said the company also plans to collaborate with Hyundai Mobis, the component arm of Hyundai Motor, to supply the infrared c

Samsung Display saw its smartphone OLED panel shipment increase 24.6% quarter-to-quarter during the third quarter thanks to the launch of iPhone 13, according to data from UBI Research.The South Korean display panel maker shipped 124.76 million units of the panels during the third quarter, the analy

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it posted 73 trillion won in sales and 15.8 trillion won in operating profit.It is an increase of 9.02% and 27.94%, respectively, from a year ago.The sales figure is its highest to date for a quarter; operating profit is its highest in three years.Samsung’s se

South Korean component makers are aiming to spend on flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) to foster the business as their new growth engine.The sums they will spend and timing are behind to their semiconductor board making rivals in Japan and Taiwan but will be enough to narrow the gap in terms of tec

A LG InnoTek researcher has confirmed that the company is planning to manufacture flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA).LG InnoTek research fellow Nam Sang-hyuck, speaking at a symposium held at the KPCA industry show for printed circuit boards at Incheon, said that the company has “now started FC-BGA,

LG Display has begun the development of 12.9-inch OLED iPad, TheElec has learned.As Samsung Display recently scrapped the development of a 10.86-inch OLED iPad it was proceeding with Apple, LG Display will likely be able to enter the IT OLED market at a level playing field with its South Korean comp

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will build a production line for flip chip (FC)-ball grid array (BGA) to supply to a US chip firm, TheElec has learned.The total spending on the line will be 1.1 trillion won with the US chip company also jointly investing in it. The pair agreed on the deal last month.FC-BG

Samsung will procure batteries for the upcoming Galaxy S22 smartphones series from both China’s Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) and Samsung SDI, TheElec has learned.Batteries from both companies will be used in the initial batch of the phones, sources said.The Chinese company was once removed from

Apple and Samsung Display have canceled their joint project to develop a 10.86-inch OLED iPad, TheElec has learned.The tablet was originally slated to launch in 2022 and would have been Cupertino’s first iPad to sport an OLED panel.The project was stopped due to either the single stack structure of

South Korean smartphone lens companies are struggling to survive in the market as Taiwanese and Chinese rivals have taken over half the supply of lenses to Samsung Electronics.There are rising calls in the local industry for Samsung to take care of the lens supply chain in its own country to avoid a

Samsung Mobile boss TM Roh had made two trips to the US this year to meet major US component makers to secure more supplies of application processors needed in smartphone production, TheElec has learned.Roh had asked major partners to supply Samsung with more application processors but was denied, s