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

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it will encourage open source innovation with its own storage platform called Project Poseidon.Project Poseidon is the company’s disaggregated storage platform designed to meet the needs of hyperscale server manufacturers and the data center market.Earlier in

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