Component suppliers for Samsung Electronics are looking to reduce their reliance of smartphones.The smartphone market has matured while competition between the suppliers are intensifying, forcing them to look for new revenue stream elsewhere.Mcnex is looking to camera modules for automobiles. It cur

Growth in the worldwide printed circuit board (PCB) market will be led by semiconductor package boards, data from electronics industry consulting firm Prismark showed.Worldwide PCB market will grow 0.3% this year to be worth US$61.5 billion.Last year, the market contracted 1.7% compared to 2018.This

Jahwa Electronics’ negotiations to sell its Vietnam camera module factory with Sunny Optical has fallen through, TheElec has learned.The talks between the pair fell through around the end of September, people familiar with the matter said.Sunny Optical has purchased another camera module factory in

SK Nexilis’ first overseas copper foil factory will be located in Southeast Asia, a company executive said.The company is considering customer demand, market’s growth potential and utility bills in selecting the country to build the factory, company executive Lee Jae-hong said.Europe and US were als

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker TLB is aiming to be listed on KOSDAQ.The company split-off from Daeduck Electronics back in 2011. It was originally the thin lamination board business of Daeduck.It has turned in its security report to financial authorities on Monday. Its IPO is expected next month.

Japan’s Murata Manufacturing expects sales from multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to decline in the second half of the 2020 fiscal year.The world’s largest MLCC maker said sales will decline 3% compared to the first half of the 2020 fiscal year, or between April to September, in the period from

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has narrowed its candidates to buy its wireless communication module business, which includes W-Fi modules, to two companies, TheElec has learned.There were nine companies that showed interest in buying the businesses initially, but this was first narrowed down to four and

Camera module suppliers to Samsung Mobile saw their operating income plummet in the third quarter of 2020.This starkly contrasts with Samsung Mobile’s 50% surge in operating income for the quarter __ which likely shows that the Korean tech giant benefited from hefty cuts in module unit prices.Mcnex

LG InnoTek said on Wednesday that it was existing LED business.It the first official confirmation from the company itself that it was doing so.Last year in October, LG InnoTek has already decided to exit the LED business and told its retailers that it was planning to halt LED chip and package produc

Bare board testing company Bioptro is expecting sales between 17 to 18 billion won in the its 2020 fiscal year thanks to a rise in demand from China, the company said on Friday.It will be up to a 40% growth year over year for the period between April, 2020 to March 2021.Bare board testers (BBT) are

Organic light emitting diode (OLED) startup Lordin will launch OLED lighting products, the company said on Tuesday.Company CEO Oh Hyoung-yun said it will develop a blue OLED material and launch lighting products that will have a different concept from what is in the market.Lordin specializes in blue

Amotech’s multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) business is being negatively impacted by US sanctions against Huawei.The COVID-19 pandemic has also delayed its MLCC production schedule.The company initially expected sales from MLCC to be reflected in the first half of 2020 but this will now be pushed

Samsung Electronics’ strong third quarter performance looks like it was in part from the conglomerate cutting unit prices of suppliers.Samsung Mobile and Samsung Display significantly reduced unit prices from suppliers in the third quarter compared to the same time period last year, people with dire

Apple’s iPhone 12 for the US market is shown to have a 5G mmWave antenna on its sides.The US versions has a mmWave antenna window below the power buttons __ the feature is absent in models sold in other countries.Apple has said at the unveiling event for the iPhone 12 that it has custom designed the

Apple has applied Time of Flight (ToF) LiDAR onto the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, the two higher tiers out of the four new models of iPhone 12.LiDAR measures distance by shooting a beam of light and measuring the time it takes to bounce back. The technology allows for longer ran compared to

LED maker Wooree E&L is expected to post around one billion on in operating profits and 30 billion won in sales in the third quarter.It will be double the operating profits of the previous quarter and 10% increase in sales quarter over quarter.A rise in demand in liquid crystal displays (LCD), which

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has won orders from Samsung Electronics to supply the main camera modules of the Galaxy A52 and A72 smartphones launching in the first half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The two models combined sell around 30 million units a year and will allow Samsung Electro-Mechanics to s

Samsung Electronics plans to launch more home appliances with ultraviolet (UV) LED applied to them in 2021, TheElec has learned.Samsung decided on the matter in September to apply UV-C __ ultraviolet light with wavelength between 250nm to 280nm that are useful for disinfection __ LED on more of its

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker DAP was the largest supplier of boards for Samsung Electronics’ smartphones this year, TheElec has learned.DAP supplies high density interconnection (HDI) boards to Samsung.The second largest supplier of boards was Korea Circuit, followed by Meiko Electronics of Jap

Samsung Electronics will put in a penta camera on its Galaxy smartphone series for the first time next year.The mid-tier Galaxy A72 will have five cameras on its back, TheElec has learned.The smartphone will have 32MP selfie shooter on its front. On its back, there will be a 64MP, a 12MP ultra wide,