Samsung has removed Partron as a camera module supplier from the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 phones launching next year, TheElec has learned.Partron had been a major supplier of camera modules for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 that launched earlier this year in August.It was a secondary supplier of ca

SK On’s new joint battery factory with Ford to be built in Ankara, Turkey will be almost identical to its factory in Hungary.Local conglomerate Koc will also be a partner in the factory, which will be built in the special industrial zone at Baskent.The factory is almost an exact copy of SK On’s firs

The global chip market is expected to recover in the second quarter of next year, analysts firm IC Insights said in its forecast.The firm said the market will contract by 9% during the third quarter of this year and will further contract by 8% and then by 3% again in the first quarter of 2023.After

SK Hynix was developing a new CMOS image sensor (CIS) that uses neural network technology, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory giant is planning to embed an AI accelerator into the CIS, sources said.The accelerator itself is based on SRAM combined with a microprocessor __ also called in-memo

Samsung will complete the construction of its new P3 foundry fab next year, TheElec has learned.The tech giant originally planned to finish construction within the year.Samsung only started construction of the cleanroom of the fab late last month, sources said.This reflects the delay that began when

LG Display has unveiled a prototype stretchable display that can stretch by 20%.The company said on Tuesday that the display, which can be extended, folded, and twisted, can expand in size from 12-inch to 14-inch.The stretchable display is also full color, meaning it has red, green, and blue pixels,

LG Display’s plan to invest in OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) production is facing delays.The company was originally expected to place orders for the equipment needed for production sometime in the third quarter.But LG Display is yet to do so and a decision is unlikely until December, sources said.OLEDoS

Samsung Display was considering expanding its quantum dot (QD)-OLED production capacity in order to win orders from Apple for their monitors, according to analyst firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel maker was considering investing in QD-OLED production at its newly planned factory, like

Batteries, biopharmaceuticals, and chips. These three products are largely considered to be Samsung’s three growth engines today by observers of the South Korean conglomerate.Samsung SDI is the subsidiary that handles batteries.But in contrast to the other two products, Samsung SDI’s investment in t

China’s Sunny Optical will be supplying two camera modules that will be used as back cameras on Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra launching next year, TheElec has learned.The deal is expected to be highly profitable for the Chinese camera module maker as Samsung is planning to manufacture the most number o

Samsung System LSI, Samsung’s logic chip designing business unit, has been registered as a secondary vendor of automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) for Hyundai Motor’s latest car model, TheElec has learned.The primary vendor for the car model, which launched during the first half of the year, is Omniv

Samsung said on Monday that it has begun production of 1Tb Gen 8 V-NAND.The chip has 236 layers, more than those of Micron’s with 232 layers that launched early this year.Samsung used its double stack method as it did for Gen 7 V-NAND, sources said.The tech giant said its 1Tb TLC(triple level cell)

Chip IP firm Qualitas Semiconductor was expecting its revenue to more than double this year, its CEO Duho Kim said.The company, founded in 2017, specializes in interconnect IPs and had developed its own SerDes IPs.SerDes technology serializes parallel data to transfer them through a single channel,

HB Solution will be supplying quantum dot (QD) inkjet equipment to Samsung Display by the end of this month, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used to form the QD color conversion layer used in QD-OLED panels made by Samsung Display in its Q1 production line.HB Solution announced that it had

Samsung will use mostly Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 application processors (AP) on its upcoming Galaxy S23 series smartphones, TheElec has learned.Sources said the tech giant’s own Exynos platform will likely power mid-tier smartphones instead of flagships.Samsung had attempted to expand the marke

Samsung was developing a new chip packaging technology with its key partners for automotive chips, TheElec has learned.The tech giant was developing an aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coating bonding wire technology with beefed-up reliability and insulation compared to previous bonding wires, sources said.Bo

Samsung is planning to manufacture 59.86 units of smartphones using joint development manufacturers (JDM) next year, TheElec has learned.The company shared this plan with its suppliers in its recent meeting with them where it laid out its annual plan for 2023.Samsung currently uses four JDMs, includ

Executives of Samsung’s chip division have been more collaborative and communicative with their counterparts at partner and supplier companies since the tech giant named Kyung Kye-hyun as the division president, TheElec has learned.Multiple sources have said executives of Samsung Device Solution (DS

Samsung’s mobile business, called Mobile Experience business by the company, took considerable time on its foldable smartphone strategy in a meeting with suppliers conducted during the third week of October, TheElec has learned.During the meeting, Samsung shared with suppliers that it believes the f

Samsung Electronics is planning to manufacture 290.68 million units of smartphones in 2023, TheElec has learned.This is 13% of the production target of 334.2 million units it had set near the end of 2021 for this year.Manufacturers always set a production target around 10% higher than their shipment