Philoptics was testing its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) with a Chinese panel maker, the company’s CEO said.During its annual shareholders’ meeting, Philoptics CEO Han Ki-su said the evaluation process, which started late last year, will take approximately a year to complete.This means Philoptics will

Chinese display giant BOE was in talks with smartphone brand Honor to manufacture a two-stack tandem OLED panel to apply to a smartphone planned for later this year, TheElec has learned.The pair believe that the use of the technology, where the OLED panel has two emission layers, can reduce the powe

Samsung Display could be procuring fine metal mask (FMM), which is used in the production of OLED panels, from South Korean firm Poongwon Precision, TheElec has learned.If Poongwon’s FMM is approved for commercial use by Samsung Display, it could challenge Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing’s dominance in

Fab scrubber and chiller firm GST is aiming to supply one of its chillers to a major Taiwanese chipmaker within the year.The South Korean kit maker has been demo testing the equipment with the potential customer since November of last year, sources said.GST could win the order sometime in the second

LG Electronics said on Wednesday that it was exiting its solar panel business. It will officially close down the business on June 30, after its board of directors approved the decision on Tuesday.The company said it made a comprehensive review of the impact of increasing material and logistics costs

Qualcomm has given the foundry order for its 3-nanometer (nm) application processor launching next year exclusively to TSMC, TheElec has learned.The US chip giant has also given some of the foundry work for its 4nm application processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to the Taiwanese chip giant, which it

The CEO of AI chip platform startup Openedges Technology expects the company to experience double to triple growth per year going forward from high demand for its IP solutions.The company launched its mixed-precision (4/8bit) computation neural network processing unit (NPU) IP dubbed Enlight last mo

Samsung lost its patent lawsuit against memory module firm Netlist in the US.Netlist said on Thursday that the United States District Court for the Central District of California entered a judgment in favor of the firm against Samsung for material breaches of obligations under their joint developmen

SK Hynix has significantly downsized its team that develops memory products for automobiles, TheElec has learned.According to sources, Daeyong Shim, vice president head of SK Hynix’s Automotive Business, was transferred to the Semiconductor Academy, a team dedicated to educating the company’s suppli

Lam Research on Thursday announced new etching solutions that can be used for gate-all-around (GAA) transistor structures in wafers.The solutions were already in use by Samsung for its 3-nanometer (nm) GAA process, the company said.They were being manufactured by Lam Research Manufacturing Korea, th

LG Group had refused to hand over its chip development team to LX Group, which had split off from the former last year, TheElec has learned.LX Semicon, formerly called Silicon Works, had made a request during the second half of 2021 to LG Electronics to transfer its personnel and asset under the Sys

Samsung Electronics is reevaluating its plan to invest in fan-out wafer-level package (FoWLP), TheElec has learned.The company originally planned to spend around 200 billion won to manufacture the package at its Cheonan plant to apply them in Exynos application processors.According to sources, in a

South Korea’s Bioptro was currently developing a bare board tester (BBT) for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) with the aim of wrapping up development within the year, TheElec has learned.The printed circuit board (PCB) testing equipment maker had been reviewing entering the sector from the increas

Dongwoon Anatech was supplying its closed-loop autofocus driver IC to Xiaomi for the latter’s augmented reality (AR) glasses, TheElec has learned.The chip is used to control where the lens is during camera focusing.An open-loop driver sends electricity to the voice coil motor. It is cheaper to make

Samsung will unveil new TV models that use LG Display’s white(W)-OLED panels in June at the earliest, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant initially planned to launch the TVs in May.But after the year-end reshuffle last year, Samsung had decided to reevaluate the contract it has signed wi

Samsung Display will need an order of substantial volume from Apple to expand its Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) IT OLED panels this year.The South Korean display panel maker’s development of a vertical deposition machine, in collaboration with Japan’s Ulvac, for use in Gen 8.5 IT OLED panel that started las

While Samsung Electro-Mechanics has signed off on multiple spending plans to expand its production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), rival LG Innotek is yet to fix a decisive timeline to enter the competition.LG Innotek had formed a task force for its FC-BGA business in early 2021 but

LG Energy Solution has formed a digital office under the direct supervision of new CEO Kwon Young-soo, TheElec has learned.It is also remodeling the CEO office and employee lounge to better communicate between employees, sources said.LG Energy Solution is yet to name a new chief digital officer (CDO

S&S Tech was currently focusing on improving the defects on its blank mask for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process in wafer fabrication, TheElec has learned.Blank masks are used to make the pattern masks to draw circuit designs on the wafer during the EUV lithography process.Molybdenum-silicon (Mo-Si)

Healthcare firm Answer is planning to expand the availability of its Rora VR virtual reality service to more exercise machines, TheElec has learned.The service was only available for indoor cycling machines but will now be available on running machines and steppers.Rora VR machines were by attaching