LG Energy Solution is planning to build its most advanced battery production line yet at its Ochang factory, TheElec has learned.It is its seventh pilot line at the factory and will be completed in October.The line will use smart factory technologies and manufacture pouch batteries, sources said.Tho

Fab equipment maker Neosem has supplied new inspection equipment for use in Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 memory production, becoming the first company to do so, TheElec has learned.The customer is Samsung and the equipment is used to determine whether memory modules that support CXL 2.0 are operat

Yujin Technology was developing battery notching and stacking equipment, TheElec has learned.It marks the company’s entry into the battery production equipment business, as it has only offered components and materials for batteries so far.Notching is used to make the positive and negative tabs of th

Hyundai Motor is planning to use press notching instead of laser in its latest joint battery factory with LG Energy Solution in the US, TheElec has learned.The factory, operated by the pair’s joint venture HL-GA, will use notching, much like HLI Green Power, Hyundai Motor’s joint venture with LG Ene

Hanmi Semiconductor has effectively lost in a patent lawsuit it filed against rival Genesem over patents related to packaging equipment.In fact, it lost more than it bargained for as the court nullified its patents.Hanmi Semiconductor filed the suit against Genesem to the Seoul Central District Cour

Back-end equipment maker ASMPT has supplied a demo thermal compression (TC) bonder for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production to Micron, TheElec has learned.The equipment maker is collaborating with the US memory giant in co-developing a TC bonder for use in HBM4 production.ASMPT has also supplied T

Battery inspection equipment maker Nsys said on Monday that it will acquire cylindrical battery production equipment maker Lakyung Engineering.Nsys has already secured a 67% stake in the latter and plans to increase this to 80%.Lakyung Engineering specializes in production equipment for 4680 cylindr

Samsung’s fab equipment-making subsidiary Semes has succeeded in developing an argon fluoride immersion (ArF-i) lithography track equipment.The first unit of the equipment, called Omega Prime, was supplied last year and Semes was making a second unit, the company said on Monday.South Korean chipmake

This week, multiple acquaintances messaged me to ask whether a certain report was true.The report, made in South Korean media, claimed that Nvidia asked Samsung to change the design of their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and that this would cause further delays in supply. Coincidentally, Samsung’s sha

Samsung Foundry is expected to launch 1.4-nanometer (nm) process, back side power delivery network (BSPDN), and silicon photonics in 2027.During its Samsung Foundry Forum held in San Jose on Wednesday, the South Korean tech giant’s contract chip production business unit announced its technology road

Chinese display panel maker CSOT has sent requests for quotations to South Korean equipment makers for Gen 6 OLED production equipment, TheElec has learned.Multiple equipment makers have received the request and are reviewing the profitability of assembling the kits, sources said.CSOT will decide ne

Samsung shared in a recent paper that it believes hybrid bonding was needed to manufacture a 16-stack high-bandwidth memory (HBM).In its paper published during the 2024 IEEE 74th Electronic Components and Technology Conference held in Colorado last month titled, in Korean, D2W (die to wafer) Copper

Hanwha Precision Machinery has won a deal with SK Hynix to supply thermal compression (TC) bonders used in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TheElec has learned.With ASMPT (which Dutch equipment maker ASM is the largest shareholder with a 25% share) also agreeing to develop TC bonder un

SensoHub has been developing a time delayed integration (TDI) sensor since 2018 and was working on applying them on satellites, the company CEO said on Friday.TDI is an image sensor that increases light absorption in timed intervals. It is a charged couple device (CCD) which lost out against CMOS in

PSK Holdings had supplied reflow equipment to Micron back in March, TheElec has learned.The equipment is used in the production of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), which are used with AI processors.The equipment were supplied to Taiwan and Micron is expected to order more if the initial units are receiv

Samsung SDI has kicked off a project to reevaluate its battery production equipment to boost efficiency, TheElec has learned.Called V Project, which stands for Value Reengineering Project, the South Korean lithium-ion battery maker is aiming to reevaluate is existing production equipment to increase

German laser firm LPKF Laser & Electronics will supply this year its laser equipment for use in the through glass via (TGV) process of glass chip board production.LPKF CEO Klaus Fiedler told TheElec in an interview that the company signed a deal to ship its kits to a customer working on manufacturin

Bearing maker WONST is targeting an annual revenue of 100 billion won this year, CEO Lee Taek-won told TheElec.The company is aiming to list on the Korean bourse next year on the back of hitting the revenue target, Lee said.WONST had originally aimed to go public this year, deciding on Shinhan Secur

The US chip production capacity is expected to triple from 2022 to 2032 from the enactment of the CHIPS and Science Act, but extending current support and considering additional measures was needed to “stay the course”, according to a joint report by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and

LG Electronics is attempting to sell battery production equipment to non-LG companies.This stems from its recent failure to win orders from the joint battery factory of LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor in the US, sources said.LG Electronics’ Production engineering Research Institute (PRI), known