Nepes has been steadily selling its shares in one of its key subsidiaries for the past month which critics say is aimed at saving another subsidiary that has accumulated losses over the years.Nepes, from January 15 to February 21, has offloaded approximately 600,000 shares in total, or 4.93% of its

Intel was increasing its sales activity against South Korean fabless chip companies, TheElec has learned.Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger last year met with senior executives of these companies and updated them on its chip foundry plan, sources said.The US chip giant was heavily pitching its 18A process node

Samsung Display will be the sole supplier of the initial batch of 11-inch OLED panels that Apple will use on its future iPads, TheElec has learned.Meanwhile, LG Display is the exclusive supplier for the first batch of 13-inch OLED panels that will also be used on the bigger iPad model.Cupertino plan

LG Energy Solution said on Thursday that it has signed a battery cathode procurement agreement with Chinese cathode maker Changzhou Liyuan New Energy Technology.The South Korean battery maker will buy lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode for batteries aimed at electric vehicles and energy storage sy

Intel said on Wednesday that it has secured US$15 billion worth of chip foundry orders as of the first quarter of this year.The company also announced that it has secured Microsoft as a foundry customer during its first foundry even Intel Foundry Direct Connect at San Jose.The US chip giant previous

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has brought down the line width/line spacing (L/S) of its chip package down to 5 micrometers.This was to respond to an increase in I/Os of chips, Samsung Electro-Mechanics group head Woo Seok Yang said during the SMT&PCB Tech Conference hosted by TheElec in Suwon, south of

Samsung said on Tuesday that it will optimize Arm’s SoC IPs to its gate-all-around (GAA) chip process node.Their collaboration will make the GAA process accessible to fabless customers, saving them time and money, the South Korean tech giant said.Optimization of Cortex-X, Arm’s high-end chip archite

LG Innotek is considering developing glass substrates for use in chip packaging, a company official said.LG Innotek general manager Jaeman Park said on Wednesday during the SMT&PCB Tech Conference hosted by TheElec in Suwon that glass is likely to become the main ingredient in the future for substra

LG Innotek said on Tuesday that it has developed a camera module that integrates a heater so that it can defrost the lens to keep it functioning during the cold.The South Korean parts maker said the module was aimed at autonomous vehicles and it is hoping to start production in 2027.During the cold

Chip giant TSMC on Monday unveiled a new packaging platform for high-performance computing and AI chips that uses silicon photonics to improve the interconnect.Kevin Zhang, vice president of business development at TSMC, said during ISSCC 2024 __ IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference __

South Korea’s export of battery cathode in January increased by 20% from the prior month, according to data from the Korea International Trade Association.Export reached US$649 million in January, a drop of 43% from a year earlier but an increase of approximately 20% from December.The figure is also

Intel said on Monday that it aims to ship over 100 million units of AI PC processors by next year.Intel Korea vice president Choi Won-hyuk said during a press conference in Seoul that the company aims to manufacture and supply chips for “AI” PCs of 40 million units this year and 60 million units in

South Korean chip IP firm Openedges said on Monday that it saw around a third of its revenue last year from Taiwanese chip giant TSMC’s value chain.The company, a Samsung IP partner, said it recorded 6.3 billion won in revenue from its dealings with the Taiwanese foundry __ an increase of 82.5% from

Battery diagnostic company MinTech said on Friday that it made security filings to financial authorities to list on the Kosdaq.The company is offering 3 million shares with a price per share between 6,500 won and 8,500 won.MinTech hopes to raise 19.5 billion won through the listing and a valuation o

Samsung Display, BOE, and Tianma have proposed their prices to Apple for OLED panels aimed at iPhone SE4 that will launch early in 2025, TheElec has learned.Cupertino has so far only used LCD panels for its budget iPhone line but it is planning to upgrade this to OLED next year.Sources said Samsung

South Korea’s semiconductor exports in January increased substantially, showing the global chip market is on track to rebound.The Ministry of Science and ICT said on Friday that the country recorded US$16.35 billion in exports and US$11.85 billion in imports for tech-related products, resulting in a

LSE was in the middle of installing scrubbers for through silicon via (TSV) for high bandwidth memory for SK Hynix, TheElec has learned.The fab equipment maker has provided two units to the chipmaker’s fab at Cheongju, called Cheongju Campus.Electronics parts maker LTC acquired Mujin Electronics’s f

Lam Research has changed the president of its South Korean operation amid stiff challenges ahead __ from rival Tokyo Electron’s aggressive push to its ongoing patent lawsuits with PSK.The fab equipment maker named Park Joon-hong as the new president of Lam Research Korea on January 30. The new presi

LG Energy Solution is planning to begin production of 4680 batteries in South Korea in August at the earliest.Company CEO Kim Dong-myung told reporters on the sidelines of the regular meeting of the Korea Battery Industry Association that the battery maker will start manufacturing the battery type b

Samsung Display will install its first evaporator for use at Gen 8 OLED production next month, TheElec has learned.The machine was made by Japan’s Canon Tokki and will be used to manufacture Gen 8 OLED, which the South Korean display panel maker aims to use to make OLED panels aimed at PCs and table