LG Display has begun developing a new etching technology for OLED panels that will be supplied to Apple, TheElec has learned.The technology is being prepared by the company to launch a so-called hybrid OLED panel, which uses a glass substrate like a rigid OLED panel but uses thin-film encapsulation

Lotte Energy Materials is also planning to develop and manufacture copper foils for 4680 batteries.The company said it was testing the foil, called I2SH, during its conference call for its fourth-quarter earnings.The battery type is used widely by Tesla for its electric vehicles.Solus Advanced Mater

Jusung Engineering was on the cusp of wrapping up the development of new equipment that uses its atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, CEO Hwang Chul-joo said on Thursday.Some of the kits are a transistor deposition machine, an inorganic emission display deposition machine and manufacturing equi

Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed their negotiations for a possible white OLED (W-OLED) supply deal, TheElec has learned.The pair are discussing LG Display potentially supplying somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 units of W-OLED panels as the initial stock, sources said.If LG Display

Samsung is planning to adopt a new board that will allow for narrower circuit width to apply its new fan-out packaging technology for semiconductor boards.The company can use the semi-additive process to reach a circuit width of 2/2 micrometers, Samsung manager Lee Choong-sun said at the 2023 Advanc

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan said on Tuesday that its new research center in Osan, South Korea won’t be affected by diplomatic or security issues.Idemitsu is a supplier of blue OLED material and electron transport layer to Samsung Display and LG Display for OLED panels.The Japanese company formed the rese

Samsung SDI is planning to add 3D CT scanning in its battery production, TheElec has learned.The inspection will be done in-line and the company has already adopted the system at its factory in Goed, Hungary.The equipment was supplied by SFA, which has been supplying them to battery cell makers sinc

Chinese display panel makers monopolizing the liquid crystal display (LCD) market will in the long run threaten the TV businesses of Samsung and LG, according to UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi.Yi told TheElec in an interview on Tuesday that while many see the dominance of Chinese companies in the L

Samsung Display is almost certainly expected to use its M12 material set for OLED panels that it will supply to Apple for iPhone 15 series this year, sources told TheElec.The South Korean display panel maker used the material set for the first time last year for the two top-tier models of the iPhone

Chip probe card maker Micro2Nano is aiming to launch new probe cards for DRAM and NAND for its future growth, the company CEO said on Monday.Micro2Nano CEO Hwang Kyu-ho told a press conference in Seoul its aim was to reduce its reliance on probe cards for NAND for revenue.The electrical die sort (ED

Fab equipment maker Wonik wants to acquire display driver IC company TLI, TheElec has learned.Wonik, which also makes display equipment and chips, has expressed its interest in acquiring the fabless chip company since last year, sources said. The pair have recently met to discuss the issue, they add

Telecommunication chip company RFHIC was testing a microwave generator with a global fab equipment maker as well as a local South Korean fab equipment maker, TheElec has learned.The generator generates high-spectrum, short-distance microwaves __ widely used in the common microwave.The device is also

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process adoption by chipmakers in their advanced chip-making is expanding rapidly in recent years.In response to this increasing demand, many companies are developing pellicles for use in the EUV process. South Korean companies S&S Tech and FST have developed those with ove

SK On is expected to double the production capacity of its Seosan plant than initially planned, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker had planned to aim for an annual production capacity of 10GWh.But this has now been increased to over 20GWh, at least four times higher than the plant’s

Nepes Laweh saw its order for fan-out panel level packaging (FO-PLP) work for certain chips by Qualcomm canceled recently, TheElec has learned.The cancellation comes from continued defects and low yield, the sources said.However, Nepes Laweh has retained orders for some of the packaging work low-end

Samsung was developing a new low temperature solder to use in advanced chip packaging.Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) researcher Joo Guen-mo, in a local media conference, said the company expects to apply the technology in commercial production in 2025.Solders are materials used to c

Probe card maker Micro2Nano is expecting its latest electrical die sort (EDS) probe card for DRAM to get approval from key customer SK Hynix within the year.Micro2Nano CEO Hwang Kyu-ho told TheElec on Wednesday that the company will be sending the chipmaker its evaluation sample in May.The card will

The bosses of auto giant Hyundai Motor and battery maker CATL had met in March to discuss further collaboration between the pair, TheElec has learned.CATL CEO Zeng Yuqun visited South Korea during the month and met with Hyundai Motor executive chairman Chung Eui-sun. They had already met three month

The trial for Netflix’s lawsuit with South Korean broadband service provider SK Broadband over fees for using the latter’s network has started in the appeals court.SK Broadband is demanding that the US streaming service pay fees for using its network while Netflix is refusing to do so.The pair’s leg

Earnings of Semes, the fab equipment-making subsidiary of Samsung, show that the South Korean tech giant is drastically reducing its spending in China.The development is likely due to restrictions being imposed on China by the US.Semes recorded 2.88 trillion won in revenue and 219.3 billion won in o