SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has began to manufacture its new solid-state drive (SSD) called PE8110 E1.S.The SSD is aimed at servers and the company will begin supplying them to customers in May.PE8110 E1.S is based on 128-layer NAND. SK Hynix said the new SSD has improved writing and reading s

South Korean battery separator firm Enerever Battery Solution said on Wednesday that it will build a new factory at Wanju, North Jeolla Province.The firm and Wanju county signed an agreement for the factory on the same day.Enerever will spend 127.6 billion won up to 2026 to build the factory on 32,7

Posco will be building a new lithium extraction plant at Gwangyang, the company said.The plant will have an annual production capacity of 43,000 metric tonnes. Construction will start in the first half 2021. The plant will be completed in 2023.The amount is enough to power a million electric vehicle

A senior executive at Samsung Display has won a prestigious award given by the Society for Information Display (SID).Samsung Display president Kim Sang-chul was awarded the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize by SID, for his contribution to the mass production of high-resolution OLED panels based on low-temp

LG Chem said on Wednesday that its second carbon nanotube (CNT) factory at Yeosu has finished construction and began production.With the factory going live, the company’s annual CNT production capacity has now increased from 500 metric tonnes to 1,700 metric tonnes.CNT has the same levels of heat co

Merck Electronics may invest over 200 million euros for the next five years in South Korea to expand its facilities in the country.The firm had agreed with Gyeonggi Province to expand investment and foster talents in semiconductors and displays together on Tuesday.Merch Electronics CEO Kai Beckmann

SK IE Technology’s second battery separator factory in Changzhou, China has begin operation, the company said on Tuesday.Out of the factory’s total production capacity of 340 million meter-square, 170 million meter-square has gone live, the subsidiary to SK Innovation said.Combined with the first fa

The San Diego Supercomputer Center will use chips from Intel subsidiary Habana in its Voyager artificial intelligence (AI) system.Voyager will be powered by 336 Habana Gaudi processors built for AI workloads. Gaudi natively has ten 100Gb Ethernet ports of RoCE v2 to minimize throughput bottlenecks.T

LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation have settled their battery lawsuit, the companies announced on Sunday.The pair’s settlement comes a day before the deadline for US President Joe Biden to exercise his rights to veto a ruling made by the International Trade Commission in February.The commission ha

Philoptics said on Friday that it has won additional orders for its back side align (BSA) direct image (DI) exposure machine used in semiconductor production.The machines uses special lighting and camera to detect BSA mark on wafers. It can increase the accuracy of the alignment between the front an

Robotic automation firm Raontec is planning to list on KOSDAQ in May. The company filed a security report for the listing to financial authorities on Friday.The company previously listed on KONEX in 2015. It is planning to list on the higher tier bourse through the special exemption rule for technol

Kolon Industries and SK Global Chemical launch a new biodegradable plastic in the third quarter, the pair said on Wednesday.The new plastic will be poly butylene adipate-co-teraphthalate (PBAT). Once these are buried underground, 90% of them will be degraded within six months, the companies said.The

ACM Research on Wednesday announced in South Korea that its 300mm Ultra Fn furnace dry processing equipment will support additional semiconductor manufacturing processes.The additions are: un-doped poly deposition, doped poly deposition, gate oxide deposition, high-temperature oxidation and high-tem

LG Electronics said on Thursday that it would be proving up to three years of Android OS update for its phones.LG extended OS update support by a year for its phones, the company said. Premium smartphones will get three years of OS update and some budget models two years.Velvet and Wing, which launc

Samsung Electronics has recorded operating income in the first quarter that beat market expectations.The South Korean tech giant said on Wednesday that it expects sales of 65 trillion won and operating income of 9.3 trillion won in the first quarter.This will be an increase of 17.48% and 44.19%, res

Seoul Viosys said on Tuesday in its preliminary guidance that it recorded 121.2 billion won in sales in the first quarter of 2021.This is 39% higher than a year prior and the firm’s highest first quarter sales figure.Seoul Viosys said it enjoyed high demand for its ultraviolet (UV) LED from disinfec

LG Energy Solution and SK Innovation clashed again over the ruling made by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in the pair’s lawsuit over trade secret.ITC’s final judgment against SK Innovation, in which it ordered a 10-year important ban on the company’s batteries to the US, will come into

A gas leak at SK Hynix’s chip plant in South Korea has injured three people.The South Korean memory giant said on Tuesday that hydrogen fluoride leaked during equipment inspection at its M16 plant in Icheon.One suffered burns on their arms and legs, while two inhaled the gas. They were rushed to the

Partron said on Monday that it will expand its 5G telecommunication module that uses Qualcomm’s solutions.The South Korean component maker currently uses Snapdragon X55, X62, X65 and 5G modem-RF systems for its 5G products.It is preparing to manufacture LGA/M.2 module, 5G customer premise equipment,

Posco Chemical said on Monday that it will be supplying battery anode to Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors.It follows the company’s deal supply cathode to Ultium Cells in December last year.The Korean chemical firm will be supplying its anode material with