BOE is planning to commercially launch a MicroOLED display in the second half of 2021, TheElec has learned.The panel will be applied to products that support augmented reality and virtual reality viewing.BOE had been developing MicroOLED since 2018 through Kunming BOE Display Technology, its joint v

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled two 5G Modem-RF Systems, Snapdragon X65 and Snapdragon X62.The Gen 4 Snapdragon X65 5G modem is the world’s first modem-RF system based on 3GPP Release 16. It provides download speed of up to 10Gbps, which means 33GB UHD film can be downloaded within 30 seconds.RF output

Key Foundry said on Tuesday that it will offer its third-generation 0.18 micrometer Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) process to customers.BCD process combines bipolar process that controls analog signals, CMOS to control digital signals and DMOS for high power processing, into one chip.It is mainly used to p

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it plans to install more water scrubbers in the cooling systems at its chip factories.Water scrubbers are used to block gas and chemicals formed during chip production from being released to the atmosphere. Catalysts and water are used during this process. SK Hynix sai

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that it plans to expand the application of magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM).MRAM stores data in magnetic domains, unlike most RAMs that store them in electric charge or current flows.The company improved the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) function of its MRAM to make

A SK Hynix executive said on Wednesday that low-power semiconductors could help ease environmental problems.Company executive vice president Cha Seon Yong said the company’s shift from DDR4 to DDR5 saved power worth a year of power consumption from those consumed for year by all the street lamps in

SK Hynix will apply peri under cell (PUC) technology to its next-generation phase-change RAM (PRAM), the company said on Wednesday.PRAM combines the advantages of DRAM and NAND flash. Intel retained its Optane business, which is based on PRAM technology, when it sold its NAND unit to SK Hynix. PRAM

Display equipment maker Meere Company will supply its edge grinder for Tianma’s Gen 6 OLED production line.According to chinabidding.com, the Korean company won an order for edge griners and edge inspection equipment from the Chinese display giant last week.Edge grinder uses a grinding wheel to make

Samsung Electronics has requested four patents owned by Ericsson to be invalidated to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 29, TheElec has learned.Two of the four patents are standard essential patents (SEP). One, Patent 10,454,655, deals with wireless handset, wireless t

Samsung SDI was considering applying autonomous guided vehicles (AGV) in its battery production lines to carry battery materials, TheElec has learned.The goal is to have the AGVs replace operators and make the lines semi-autonomous.Battery production lines currently have little autonomous functions.

SK Hynix has requested South Korean semiconductor equipment makers TES and KCTech conduct research into developing semiconductor cleaning equipment, TheElec has learned. A person familiar with the matter said SK Hynix has been looking for a supplier to replace Mujin Electronics, which has previously

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday that, for the entire year of 2020, it has posted 236.81 trillion won in sales and 35.99 trillion won in operating profit.This is a rise of 2.78% and 29.62%, respectively, from 2019.The figure matches the market consensus of South Korean analysts of sales of 235.7

LG Chem said on Wednesday that it has posted sales of 30 trillion won and operating income of 2.35 trillion won for the full year of 2020.This was an increase of 9.9% and 185.1%, respectively, from 2019.In the fourth quarter alone, sales was 8 trillion won and operating income 673.6 billion won. Sal

Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled its fourth-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platforms.The new chipset for automobile comes two years after the third-generation was launched back in January 2019.Previous dashboards of cars showed only the speed, fuel and driving information but Qualcomm’s platfo

KapJin has supplied a large amount of back-end equipment to SK Innovation for the latter’s battery factory in Komarom, Hungary, TheElec has learned.The company also supplied some equipment for SK Innovation’s factories in Changzhou, China and the Georgia, the US.KabJin is expected to post over 50 bi

Samsung Electronics is planning to expand the production of CMOS image sensors (CIS) by 20% this year, TheElec has learned.Last year, Samsung put in 100,000 wafers per month for the production of CIS. In 2021, the company plans to expand this to between 120,000 to 130,000 wafers per month.The South

Samsung Electronics is estimating that it will ship around 26 million units of its Galaxy S21 smartphone series this year, TheElec has learned.The figure is conservative as its Galaxy S20 series sold that much in 2020, which was considered underwhelming by the company.Samsung set the conservative fi

The South Korean government and local companies together will spend 300 billion won for ten years to foster talents in system semiconductors, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday.They will also create system semiconductor design majors in local universities.By 2022,

Texas Instrument on Thursday unveiled its wireless battery management system (BMS) concept at an online press conference in South Korea.The company is aiming to commercialize the solution in 2024.Texas Instrument will be supplying its Simplelink CC2662R-Q1 wireless microcontroller unit (MCU), BQ7961

Volvo Trucks’ electric trucks launching in 2022 will be powered by Samsung SDI’s batteries, TheElec has learned.It is Samsung SDI’s first supply for trucks __ the company has so far supplied for electric vehicles and energy storage systems.The South Korean battery maker is planning to wrap up develo