US car giant Ford has hired a key executive from battery maker Samsung SDI to develop electric vehicle batteries, TheElec has learned.Ford named Kim Sung-hoon, who was a vice president at Samsung SDI, as Chief Battery Engineer, sources said.This is the first time that the US carmaker has given a lea

Samsung will be using a frame case made out of titanium in its upcoming Galaxy S24 Series, TheElec has learned.The Ultra model in the series will be the first to adopt the titanium material and the company plans to expand the application depending on reception, sources said.Apple was the first to ap

Contract prices of DRAM have increased for the first time in two years and three months.According to TrendForce, as of October 31, general-purpose DDR4 8Gb 16x8 2133MHz was priced at US$1.5, a 15.38% increase from the previous month.Other DRAM prices also showed a 10% increase over the same time per

Wonik Holding’s scrubber for semiconductor production was going through Samsung’s quality test, TheElec has learned.The company’s equipment was also going through a quality test by a South Korean 8-inch chip foundry, sources also said.Wonik Holdings wants to focus on high-end scrubbers such as those

LG Electronics said it expects to ship fewer OLED TVs this year compared to last year due to an inadequate supply of OLED panels in the market from the economic slowdownThe South Korean electronics maker said on Friday that TVs were sensitive to consumer income and the recent economic slowdown has c

Chip design firm SemiFive is aiming to win 100 billion won worth of orders this year that will allow it to turn a profit for the first time, its CEO told TheElec.The goal is double that of the orders it won last year and if they convert to revenue the company will turn to the black, SemiFive CEO Bra

Samsung SDI said on Monday that it will be supplying Hyundai Motor with batteries for electric vehicles.The South Korean auto giant so far only used batteries from LG Energy Solution and SK On, Samsung SDI’s South Korean rivals.Hyundai Motor will use Samsung SDI’s batteries starting in 2026 for seve

The Israel-Hasmas war has increased concerns in the South Korean semiconductor industry for the procurement of hydrogen bromide used in chip production.This is because the domestic market is 99.6% reliant on imports of bromine (Br) from Israel, according to data from the Korea International Trade As

There was increasing interest within Samsung Display in technologies that can be applied to manufacture OLED panels without the use of fine metal masks (FMM), TheElec has learned.This interest was sparked after the Society of Information Display conference held in May this year where new production

A researcher who previously worked for Samsung Display has been arrested and indicted for the allegation that they leaked trade secrets related to OLED technologies to China.The unnamed researcher was in China five months prior but returned voluntarily to face the charges of leaking trade secrets un

DRAMs launching in the future may be made with hybrid bonding applied, a TechInsights analyst said on Thursday.This is because it will allow chipmakers to increase the density of the DRAM to increase their capacity, analyst Jeongdong Choe said during a seminar hosted by SEMI in Suwon, south of Seoul

Samsung Display is expected to start production of Gen 8 OLED panels aimed at IT devices in the first half of 2026, according to an analyst firm.The South Korean display maker earlier this year announced that it will start spending 4.1 trillion won to secure production lines for Gen 8 OLED panels.Ge

Samsung was considering applying the waterdrop hinge that it introduced with the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 on its foldable notebook launching next year, TheElec has learned.Waterdrop hinge allowed the company’s latest foldables to have the sides folded more tightly while reducing the crease in the

LG Energy Solution said on Thursday that it has signed a long-term contract with car giant Toyota to supply 20GWh of electric vehicle batteries per year.The South Korean battery maker will spend 4 trillion won up to 2025 at its Michigan plant to build a dedicated battery cell and modular line to sup

Samsung will use its own chip from its Exynos brand of application processors in its upcoming Galaxy S24 Series, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant only used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips for its Galaxy S23 Series unveiled earlier this year due to yield issues in Exynos.Samsung will use b

Intel will begin mass production of 1.8-nanometer (nm) chips, called 18A by the company, in 2025, CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday at Innovation 2023 in San Jose.18A is at the tail end of the five nodes that Gelsinger unveiled in 2021 in which he said the company will develop.The CEO said the compa

Semiconductor IP company Qualitas Semiconductor has begun IP development for UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect express), an area currently dominated by global giants Synopsis and Cadence.Qualitas Semiconductor CEO Duho Kim told TheElec that the company is hoping to produce a prototype in three ye

Samsung’s shipment rate for its latest foldable phones Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 were 10% higher than their predecessors, TheElec has learned.As of mid-September, the tech giant had over 8 weeks of inventory left for the two models, which means they are selling steadily.Samsung orders part

Solus Advanced Materials said on Monday that it has received approval for its thin foils from memory chip giant SK Hynix.It will be the first case that a domestic copper foil company supplies such a product to SK Hynix.The thin foils, which are ultra-thin at 2 micrometers, are aimed at use in a modi

EcoPro Materials said on Tuesday that it was issuing 14.47 million new shares for its listing on the Korean exchange.The upper cap is 46,000 won and it is hoping to raise up to 665.9 billion won from the listing.EcoPro Materials, a subsidiary of battery cathode maker EcoPro, produces precursors used