The memory bosses of Samsung and SK Hynix shared their respective company’s different strategies concerning high-bandwidth memory (HBM) at an industry show in Taiwan on Wednesday.Samsung Memory Business President Lee Jung-Bae and SK Hynix President Juseon Kim made keynote addresses on Wednesday, sha

SK Hynix is planning to convert one of its main DRAM production lines to manufacture high-bandwidth memory (HBM) instead due to high demand for the latter memory type, TheElec has learned.The line, M10F, located at its Icheon facility in South Korea, is already going through changes for it to manufa

NES Materials, a subsidiary of Namhae Chemical, has begun supplying Samsung with high-purity sulfuric acid (H2SO4) since last month, TheElec has learned.The material is used in cleaning processes during chip production. NES Materials was formed in 2021 and is a joint venture of Namhae Chemical, ENF,

Coasia Semi Korea, the chip design house subsidiary of Kosdaq-listed Coasia, is taking part in Canadian AI NPU startup Tenstorrent’s development project for their next-generation AI chip, TheElec has learned.Tenstorrent is led by CEO Jim Keller, the legendary microprocessor engineer known for his wo

Woowon Technology developed a new equipment that can stack the cathode, anode and separator for prismatic batteries in 0.3 seconds, the company said on Monday.The previous fastest stacking equipment was those for pouch batteries which performed the task in 0.35 seconds.Woowon Technology said its equ

Samsung was testing gas cluster beam (GCB) equipment supplied by fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron to improve its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process, TheElec has learned.The equipment, called Acrevia, is used to shape local areas of the wafer using ion beams.Tokyo Electron previously said the equipm

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has developed a Gen 6 10-nanometer (nm) (1c) 16Gb DDR5 DRAM.The company becomes the first memory maker to do so, ahead of domestic rival Samsung.The pair has had a back and forth between them as Samsung in May became the first memory maker to start manufacturing Gen

The battery joint venture between Samsung SDI and General Motors will only manufacture prismatic batteries, TheElec has learned.The pair originally planned to manufacture prismatic batteries from three production line and cylindrical batteries from three production lines at their factory in Indiana,

TSE is supplying probe cards for use in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) engineering to multiple memory makers.The company was manufacturing the probe cards for, besides HBM, DRAM, and NAND as well, TSE President Yang Douglas Jung-il said during a seminar held at Hanyang University on Wednesday.The probe

South Korean battery equipment maker CIS said on Tuesday that it will merge with affiliate SNU Precision.The battery equipment maker will hold a shareholders meeting for the decision on October 29. CIS and SNU Precision will merge on a 1:0.1994714 ratio on December 1.CIS is a battery equipment maker

Lotte Energy Materials said on Tuesday that is has developed a nickel-plated copper foil that can be used in solid-state battery.The company didn’t reveal how thick the nickel overlay over the foil was.Copper foils are used as current collectors on battery anodes. As solid-state batteries don’t use

SK Hynix plans to apply chiplet technology to its memory controller within the next three years to better control cost, a senior executive said.The memory maker currently uses TSMC as the foundry for its controllers, SK Hynix executive vice president Moon Ki-ill said during a seminar held at Hanyang

LG Display acquired samples of black pixel define layer (PDL) from Japan’s Mitsubishi and other companies during the second quarter, TheElec has learned.The material is crucial for the application of color filter on encapsulation (CoE) on foldable panels to make them thinner, sources said.CoE replac

Sapien Semiconductors said on Monday it has signed a deal with a Silicon Valley-based tech giant to develop LED on silicon (LEDoS) chip for application in augmented reality (AR) glass.The deal is worth 4.8 billion won and the contract expires in October next year, the company said.The chip will come

LG Innotek will be the sole supplier of folded zoom modules for the initial stock of iPhone 16 launching later this year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker was also the sole supplier for the initial stock of iPhone 15 last year.Folded zoom bends light into prisms and sends them to

Samsung Display is aiming to reduce the power consumption of its display panels by over 50% to meet the needs of the so-called “AI era,” a senior executive said.The display panel maker was developing technologies that remove all factors that influence power consumption in its display, Samsung Displa

SNU Precision has won an order from Chinese microdisplay maker BCDTEK to supply its OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) deposition equipment, TheElec has learned.The equipment are used to deposit OLED on silicon wafers. Display made this way, which are usually in the 1-inch range in size, are used in realty de

Hanwha Momentum is planning to launch its own overhead hoist transport (OHT) used to transport wafers during chip production.The company has been developing the equipment since last year in February, it revealed in its latest filings to financial authorities on Tuesday.Hanwha Momentum said it finish

X-ray equipment maker Xavis is in talks with Samsung to supply its glass board inspection equipment, TheElec has learned.The kit is used to check whether the copper circuits have properly formed after the through glass via (TGV) process.Xavis is still developing the equipment and is getting feedback

DB Hitek is planning to contract produce silicon capacitors for a customer starting late in the year, TheElec has learned.Silicon capacitors are made using semiconductor processes unlike multi-layer chip capacitors.They can maintain a stable voltage and have an advantage in removing high frequency n