There is speculation that Samsung Electro-Mechanics may supply Apple with lens for cameras on the iPhone __ but what are some of the preconditions for this to happen?There seems to be three obstacles, at least.1. InvestmentSamsung Electro-Mechanics’ lens production capacity currently stands at aroun

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was considering entering the camera module market for mid-end smartphones, the company said in its conference call for second quarter earnings on Tuesday.Demand for multi-camera modules was on the rise in mid-end smartphones and demand for high resolution and optical zoom w

Corning has touted the scratch and drop resistance of its new Gorilla Glass Victus at an online briefing for South Korea on Tuesday.Corning Gorilla Glass Korea president Jum Kim said the new glass had double the scratch resistance of its predecessors and can withstand 2m drops.It is difficult to imp

PowerLogics’ supply of camera modules for Samsung Galaxy A21s’ quad camera has declined significantly due to defects, TheElec has learned.Rival and secondary supplier MCNEX is set to takeover those orders, people familiar with the matter said.Samsung has launched the Galaxy A21s in India last month.

Samsung Electro-Mecahnics seem set to become of supplier of lens for the cameras on Apple’s iPhones beginning in the second half of 2020, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Thursday.The South Korean component maker is already a supplier of rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCB) a

OFilm Group has been included in the list of Chinese companies the US is sanctioning over Uighur human rights violations.The Apple camera supplier was among the 11 companies announced by the US Department of Commerce to have allegedly been involved in repressing Uyghur Muslims and other Muslim ethni

South Korean power amplifier (PA) company Wipam will began supplying its goods to a Chinese smartphone company in the second half of the year, CEO Yu Dae-kyu said on Wednesday.It will open a branch office in China as this is required for a 1st tier supplier to the company, Yu said at the company’s p

Seoul Semiconductor has lost its patent lawsuit against its Taiwanese counterpart Everlight in Germany.The German Federal Patent Court has decided to invalidate Seoul Semiconductor's Europe LED patent EP1697983, according to Everlight on Monday.The Taiwanese company filed the patent invalidation law

Samsung Electronics is planning to apply optical image stabilizers (OIS) on the cameras of its 2021-model Galaxy A series, TheElec confirmed on Wednesday.Until now, South Korean tech giant has reserved the feature for its flagship smartphones the Galaxy S series and Galaxy Note series.The higher spe

The patent lawsuit between Corephotonics and LG InnoTek is in a quagmire as LG seems bent on delaying proceedings to wait for an invalidation judgment.Corephotonics first claimed in 2017 via its YouTube channel that LG InnoTek violated its patents related to the dual-camera feature used on Apple’s i

Jusung Engineering’s newly developed Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment is being tested by a South Korean customer, the company’s CEO told TheElec on Wednesday.The latest equipment combines time division and space division technologies, dubbed Time Spaced Divided (TSD) by the company, and is ex

IVWorks has developed a 6-inch GaN-on-SiC epiwafer, the company said, and it will look for a client.It comes after it developed a 4-inch one two years ago.Having the wafer larger allows vendors to produce more chips on a single sheet that reduces cost.GaN-on-SiC is used to make GaN, or gallium nitri

A LG researcher said on Friday that materials used in smartphones that support 28GHz spectrum of 5G networks are still expensive is in need of improvement.Song Gi-chang of LG Electronics’ Materials & Devices Advanced Research Institute said at the Nano Korea 2020 trade show at KINTEX, Ilsan said in

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to contract 2.6% this year to be worth 9.65 trillion won, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The forecast is lower than KPCA’s initial one made earlier this year of a contraction of 1.5%. The adjustment is due to the

After being listed seven years on KONEX, supercapacitor maker Vinatech is aiming switch to KOSDAQ.The company said it plans to list on KOSDAQ in September this year on Thursday.Supercapacitor accounts for 90% of the firm’s sales. Supercapacitor is a device that stores electric energy, like capacitor

South Korean component maker Optrontec and US 3D sensing company Viavi Solutions has agreed to a licensing agreement in 3D sensing filters, the companies said on Thursday.The agreement will likely end the two’s patent lawsuits which began in March last year in South Korea and the US.Optrontec, and i

Derkwoo Electronics is expected to post record profits this year thanks to its supply deal with Apple.The South Korean component maker will supply brackets and stiffeners for the camera modules on the iPhone 12 series launching in the second half of the year, people familiar with the matter told The

Samsung Electronics has changed one of its suppliers for digitizers that will go into its Galaxy Note series, TheElec confirmed on Thursday.SI Flex has failed to meet the cut while BH has been chosen as a new supplier. BH will be the secondary supplier of digitizer along with main supplier Interflex

Samsung Electronics is planning to expand applying wireless power charging to more models in its Galaxy A series of smartphones, people familiar with the matter told TheElec Monday.The feature was mostly reserved for flagship smartphones such as Galaxy S and Galaxy Note smartphones up until then.The

Camera module maker Partron will see its sales decline by up to 20% this year, according to South Korean analysts.The company is expected to post revenues of 980 billion won to 1.11 trillion won this year due to lackluster smartphone sales from its main client Samsung Electronics.Partron posted sale