Samsung’s upcoming foldable smartphone Galaxy Z Fold 3 will have a battery capacity of 4,380mAh, TheElec has learned.This is 3% smaller than Galaxy Z Fold2’s 4,500mAh, which launched last year, but same as the first Galaxy Fold of 2019.Galaxy Z Fold 3 will have the same dual battery system as its pr

Samsung Electronics has recorded operating income in the first quarter that beat market expectations.The South Korean tech giant said on Wednesday that it expects sales of 65 trillion won and operating income of 9.3 trillion won in the first quarter.This will be an increase of 17.48% and 44.19%, res

LG InnoTek had sold 123 patents registered in the US related to wireless charging to an Ireland-based non-practicing entity (NPE) in February, TheElec has learned.The decision was likely made in line with parent company LG Electronics’ decision to exit its smartphone business, announced on Monday th

South Korean semiconductor deposition equipment maker Eugune Technology has won a large order for atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment from Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division, TheElec has learned.Eugune beat Japan’s Kokusai Electric to win the large order. Samsung had relied on Kokusai f

Tesna recorded an operating margin rate of 23.09% in 2020, the highest among semiconductor packaging and testing companies in South Korea.The top ten companies for packaging and testing (back-end process) combined recorded average operating margin rates of 5.66%.Tesna’s operating margin rate beat ot

Samsung SDI will be supplying the batteries for Galaxy Z Flip 2, TheElec has learned. It will be for the initial batches of the phone.The company had previous supplied batteries for Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Z Fold 2 and the original Galaxy Z Flip.Samsung SDI’s factory in Tianjin, China will be producing

TSMC said on Thursday that it will invest US$100 billion in the next three years to expand its production capacity, according to Reuters.The Taiwanese chip giant also said it will work with its customers to overcome the current global chip shortage.Last year, Intel announced that it is planning to s

The top 40 semiconductor and display equipment companies in South Korea saw their operating income and sales increase substantially in 2020.The companies combined recorded 12.72 trillion won in sales and 1.22 trillion won in operating income, an increase of 25.8% and 66.5%, respectively, from 2019,

Samsung Display is planning to produce a prototype of a TV that uses its quantum dot organic light emitting diode (QD-OLED) panel in June, TheElec has learned.The company is also planning to produce a QD-OLED monitor prototype as well. These prototypes will be sent to potential customers such as Sam

A former president of Samsung Electronics told an industry seminar on Tuesday that South Korea needs a national strategy so that the local semiconductor industry can leap forward again.Skylake Investment CEO Daeje Chin, who formerly headed Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business and was a Minist

Production at Samsung Electronics’ chip plant in Austin, Texas has normalized as of last week after cold weathers there halted production for six weeks.A Samsung spokesperson said operation was returning to levels prior to the halt.The company was forced to shutdown operation of its factory last mon

Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it reached a million unit sales in South Korea for its Galaxy S21 smartphones series.The milestone was reached 57 days after official sales in the country begin. The series also reached a million unit sales a month earlier than it predecessor, Galaxy S20 serie

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) will account for 80% of all over windows used in foldable panels going forward, according to market research firm UBI Research.Polyimide (PI) films will also continue to account for 20% of the total for the next five years, the research firm said.Samsung Display will only supp

System semiconductor startup Qualitas said on Monday that it will develop an 112Gb/s Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) IP aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and data center applications.Companies such as Cadence, Synopsys, Rambus, Marvell, Credo and Alphawave are competing fiercely in SerDes IP. Q

Samsung has developed a 512GB DDR5 memory module and is collaborating with Intel in the transition to DDR5.The company said Thursday that its latest memory supports data transfer rate of up to 7,200Mbps, double that of DDR4. This means two 30GB UHD movie can be processed within a second, Samsung sai

Wonik IPS is always open to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the company will need to secure additional processes to compete with world-class companies, a company executive told TheElec on Thursday.The executive, who was speaking after Wonik IPS’ shareholders’ meeting, said while it wasn’t reviewi

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it will be supplying 5G equipment to Japanese telco NTT DocomoIt is the Korean firm’s first direct supply to the carrierSamsung has previously supplied 5G equipment to KDDI, Japan’s second largest carrier.The Korean company will be supplying radio units to NT

South Korean camera module maker Partron’s aim to reduce its reliance to Samsung Electronics will be tested this year.The company is planning to expand into automotive components due to powered profitability in the smart camera module sector.Last year, Partron became a tier-1 camera module supplier

Samsung Display will convert its OLED line dedicated to its largest customer Apple into one that makes low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TFT) within the first half of 2021, according to market research firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel manufacturer’s A

Semes’ talks to sell its display equipment business unit to Wonik IPS for 82 billion won has failed.Wonik IPS said on Friday that the pair’s contract for the deal signed on August 31 has been canceled and they were no longer in talks.The company said Semes, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, calle