Samsung has begun production of 89-inch MicroLED TVs during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.It is the tech giant’s first MicroLED TV that uses low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) glass substrates instead of the printed circuit boards used in prior models.

South Korean semiconductor design house Coasia is planning to hire over a hundred engineers this year.Company executive Seol Byung-chan told TheElec that it has adopted a new employee education program called Global Design Education Centre.The program pays an employee for a year but instead of being

Youlchon Chemical said on Wednesday that it has won a deal worth around 1.5 trillion won from Ultium Cells, the electric vehicle battery joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors.The deal will last from January 2023 to December 2028, the company said.The battery film sector is domi

South Korean chip contract manufacturer Key Foundry has formed a gallium nitride (GaN) research team as demand for chips made using the material continues to increase.The company is aiming to offer 8-inch GaN wafer foundry services for customers, sources said.Key Foundry currently contract manufactu

Apple has increased the specification it wants from its OLED on Silicon, or OLEDoS, panels from Samsung Display and LG Display, TheElec has learned.The company had first requested pixels per inch of 2800 but has now increased to 3500ppi, sources said.Cupertino likely wants to increase the immersion

Samsung had changed the adhesive it used for the glass doors on its front-load washing machines from silicon to polyurethane, TheElec has learned.This may have been caused by the company’s efforts to reduce costs, sources said.Samsung has been criticized for allegedly using faulty glass doors on its

LG Innotek is likely to announce additional spending plans for its flip chip (FC)-ball grid array (BGA) next year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker announced a 413 billion won spending plan in February this year for the business that will last until April 2024.LG Innotek had said

Hanwha Corporation has hired a former executive at Samsung SDI who worked on battery equipment, TheElec has learned.STM vice president Ryu Yang-sik recently quit the company to join Hanwha Momentum, Hanwha’s business unit that manufactures battery equipment.He will head the battery business of the u

Production equipment maker AP Systems is aiming to manufacture more fab equipment next year to reach 100 billion won in revenue from the business.The company, which had specialized more in display equipment in the past, is aiming to have the fab equipment business account for 20% of its total revenu

LG Display is set an OLED panel shipment target for 2023 that is higher than its expected shipment this year, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to ship less of the panels than it aimed for this year due to demand for TVs falling, in general, this year from inflation.LG Display is planning

There will be no spending on equipment related to the production of large OLED panels used in TVs and monitors next year, analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) said in its forecast.Such panels are made by South Korean companies LG Display and Samsung Display.DSCC said spending on equi

Samsung Display and LG Display is opting to use larger substrates for the production OLED panels aimed at IT devices besides smartphones, TheElec has learned.They are developing the substrate to be Gen 8.7 (2290x2620mm) slightly larger than Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrates commonly adopted as Gen 8

Samsung is planning to increase the battery capacity of the Plus model on the Galaxy S23 series launching next year, TheElec has learned.Galaxy S23 Plus will have its capacity increased by 5% to around 4700mAh, compared to the 4500mAh of its predecessor.It is unclear whether the standard model and t

Samsung SDI was preparing to build a second electric vehicle battery pack factory line at its facility in Michigan, TheElec has learned.Its existing first factory line was operating at 100% capacity thanks to increased sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles made by Stellantis, sources said.This f

Samsung has scrapped its plan to add more suppliers of photoresist, a key ingredient in the production of advanced 3D NAND flash memory chips.The company had contacted a minimum of four potential new suppliers, all from Japan including the world’s largest PR maker Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, to supply the mat

Samsung Display is showing interest in an OLED panel production technology that doesn’t require the use of masks, TheElec has learned.A high-level executive of the South Korean display panel maker recently visited its equipment supplier Applied Materials’ headquarters in the US to discuss JDI’s eLEA

Samsung has been conducting prolonged tests on coolants from Chinese companies as it attempts to diversify its supply chain for the ingredient used in wafer fabrication.The South Korean tech giant has not finalized whether it would accept the coolants as it was unsatisfied with their quality, source

S&S Tech is planning to install key equipment that will allow it to manufacture extreme ultraviolet (EUV) blank masks, TheElec has learned.The mask maker is planning to install ion beam deposition (IBD) machines from US company Veeco Instruments.The installation of such equipment means S&S Tech has

Samsung is planning to secure more production capacity for OLED display driver ICs from its contract chip maker UMC of Taiwan next year.Samsung System LSI, the unit that designs logic chips, is expected to order more of its display driver ICs made due to high demand for them by key customers, source

LG Display was in the final stages of review by Apple for its low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) OLED for use in iPhone 14 Pro Max, TheElec has learned.Whether the South Korean display maker will win the deal will be decided in around two weeks' time, sources said.This is the first time th