Computing chip inspection equipment maker DI was considering developing energy storage systems (ESS) as its new growth engine, TheElec has learned.ESS is comprised of battery cells and power management systems and is used to store power.They are in high demand to be paired with new energy sources su

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that it has developed 13 new multi-layer ceramic capacitors that can withstand 150 Celsius heat.The MLCCs are designed for automotive applications and will be supplied to auto-parts makers, the company said. They range in size from 3225 (3.2x2.5mm) to 1608.C

Samsung Display has begun the development of a thinner version of its quantum dot (QD)-OLED panel, TheElec has learned.The aim is to reduce the use of glass substrates from the current two to one, sources said.If the South Korean display panel succeeds, the new version of QD-OLED will also be rollab

Samsung SDI is aiming to foster suppliers of material, components and equipment for long-term partnerships as well as finding new suppliers, multiple people familiar with the matter told TheElec.In the past, the South Korean battery maker rotated its supply line for the same parts, they said, but it

Auros Technology said on Monday that it has started the development of a new overlay measurement equipment aimed at use in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process.Overlay measurement equipment is used to check the alignment of circuit patterns between the top surface and the bottom surface of wafers.T

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker Isu Petasys said on Friday that it will be spending 54 billion won to expand its network PCB production capacity.The company will be building a fourth factory at its plant in Daegu, which will be manufacturing multi-layer boards (MLB) like the other three factories

Samsung is expected to procure 6.5 million units of smartphone OLED panels from Chinese display panel makers BOE and CSOT this year, according to Mizuho Securities.This will be approximately eight times the amount it procured last year __ 800,000 units __ from the two companies, Mizuho Securities an

Samsung is expected to begin selling OLED TVs with panels provided by LG Display in September, analyst UBI Research said in its forecast on Thursday.UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said during a conference hosted by the analyst firm in Busan, South Korea that LG Display is expected to manufacture up

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s ongoing negotiation over the supply of TV OLED panels was focused on budge OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Samsung, the world’s largest TV manufacturer by revenue, is launching OLED TVs this year after a 9-year hiatus and is procuring OLED panels from Samsung Di

Samsung said on Thursday that it has recorded 77 trillion won in sales and 14.1 trillion won in operating profit for the first quarter this year. It is a rise of 17.75% and 50.32%, respectively, from 2021. Analysts said the company enjoyed strong demand for its memory chips and smartphones during th

LG Display is considering a variety of OLED technologies for when it launches OLED panels dedicated to monitors, a company executive said.The South Korean display panel maker was reviewing both white-OLED (W-OLED) and red, green and blue-OLED (RGB-OLED) for OLED panels aimed at monitors in the 30-in

South Korean battery maker SK On is planning to procure assembly equipment from more suppliers, TheElec has learned.The company is looking for new suppliers for notching equipment, which is used to create the positive and negative tabs of batteries at the early stages of the assembly process.SK On h

BOE is planning to build a Gen 8.6 (2250x2600mm) IT OLED panel production line at its B16 factory in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel giant is planning to have the line have a production capacity of 15,000 substrates per month and start pr

Hana Micron has been developing flexible packaging technologies aimed at the use of wearable devices and medical devices.The project started last year and is being conducted as a five-year plan, a company spokesperson said.The first result of the project is an ECG sensor module developed late last y

Posco Chemical is planning to start construction of a new battery cathode factory at Pohang, TheElec has learned.It will be its first factory in the South Korean city and the facilities there will produce both cathode and anode, sources said.The company has earmarked around 3 trillion won which will

Haesung Optics will be supplying a component to Samsung Electronics needed to make the optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator used smartphone camera modules, TheElec has learned. The component maker will be supplying a component called sub, which will be provided to another camera module supplie

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it has launched a new enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that uses 128-layer NAND flashes.P5530 also uses controllers provided by the South Korean chip giant’s subsidiary Solidigm, which was formed in San Hose following the completion of the first stages of the acquisit

South Korean battery maker SK On said on Monday that it has collaborated with local fabless firm Autosilicon to develop its own battery management IC (BMIC).BMICs are used to increase the stability of battery cells in electric vehicles and energy storage systems by measuring the cells’ voltage and t

Verkor CEO Benoit Lemaignan and executives of the French battery firm will visit South Korea this week to meet with local battery equipment makers, TheElec has learned.The executives will tour facilities of South Korean battery equipment makers to look at equipment and machines that Verkor will inst

DS Techopia is planning to expand its production capacity for hexachlorodisilane (HCDS), a precursor used in the production of NAND flash memory chips, by up to 50% during the third quarter.The company said it was doing so as its customers such as Samsung are expanding their overall NAND flash produ