Chinese battery equipment maker Lead Intelligent said on Tuesday that it has signed a supply contract with France’s Automotive Cell Company (ACC).ACC is a joint venture between Stellantis, the world’s fourth-largest automaker, and SAFT, a subsidiary of French energy firm Total.ACC’s battery factory

Neosem was currently developing a direct current (DC) tester to supply to a major chip firm, TheElec has learned.The tester is used to see whether wafers that completed the front-end process have the same electric characteristics as expected. It measures the input and output voltage of each device o

Samsung Display was researching phosphorescent blue OLED material to apply on quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels, according to a South Korean professor.Kyung Hee University professor Kwon Jang-hyuk told audiences at SID 2022 Review Symposium held in Seoul on Wednesday said it seemed the South Korean displ

Blue Oval SK, the battery-making joint venture between SK On and Ford, has sent out letters of intent (LOT) to its suppliers to begin construction of its first factory in the US, TheElec has learned.The orders will be for the factory in Tennessee, which is planned to have 17 manufacturing lines with

Samsung has begun production of key components it will use on its upcoming foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The company has placed orders enough to manufacture a total of mid- to late-10 million units for Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, sources said.The assembly of the complete production w

Chip firm Nemesis said on Monday that it plans to commence preclincal trials for the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor in September.The sensor will use a needle smaller than 10mm to check the glucose level of patients.This differs from conventional blood glucose monitoring sensors that draw

APACT said on Friday that it will acquire ATsemicon’s packaging business unit.The unit does semiconductor packaging and testing and APACT will take over the packaging part.ATsemicon’s customers include SK Hynix and other fabless chip firms.APACT recently built a second factory for packaging and is e

LG Energy Solution vice chairman Kwon Young-soo will meet Tesla's executives this month to discuss collaboration in electric vehicle (EV) batteries, TheElec has learned on Friday.According to sources, Kwon will discuss building a smart factory, next-generation cylinder batteries and procurement of n

Spending on advanced packaging by chipmakers this year is expected to reach US$15 billion, according to analyst firm Yole Development.Out of that total, Intel will account for 32% with US$4.75 billion, a significant increase from US$3.5 billion last year.TSMC meanwhile will account for 27% with US$4

Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden expect revenue from multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to grow by over 10% this year.The Japanese companies said revenues from this fiscal year __ from April 2022 to March 2023 __ are expected to increase by 11% and 14%, respectively, this year.Meanwhile, comp

Schneider Electric unveiled its switchgear that doesn’t use sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas.The company unveiled its eco-friendly switchgear lineup AirSet at a press conference in Seoul on Thursday.Fluoride is widely used in the semiconductor sector to insulate heat but is harmful to the environment d

The prices of raw materials used to produce electric vehicle batteries are skyrocketing, but Hyundai Motor Group, unlike its competitors, is lacking a strategy against this trend, TheElec has learned.The South Korean automaker, which runs Hyundai Motor and Kia, formed what it calls a strategic mater

Samsung Display has postponed the installation of a pilot line for its next-generation quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) display panel, TheElec has learned.The technology uses tick-shaped nanorod LEDs as the light source, with multiple units of them representing one pixel on a screen, and if commercial

Fab equipment maker SEMCNS is aiming to win approval from Samsung for its ceramic space transformer (STF) used in CMOS image sensor (CIS) probe cards during testing.The company is quality testing the equipment to secure the approval by the first half of the year, sources said.Probe cards are used to

Revenue from display driver IC (DDI) used in OLED panels is expected to reach US$6.123 billion this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.But this will continue to drop starting next year to drop to US$4.46 billion in 2028.The spread of Covid-19, which caused a shortage of the chips, more than doubl

SK On has recently chosen battery equipment maker MOT as a partner to manufacture prismatic batteries, TheElec has learned.The battery maker had asked the equipment supplier to propose the technology needed for the production process, sources said.The pair also discussed the supply of assembly equip

LG Display will halt its production line for automotive liquid crystal display (LCD) panels after 20 years of operation.The line at Gumi, called P5, began operation back in 2003 and manufactures Gen 5 (1100x1250mm) a-Si LCD panels.The company is planning to end production at the line to improve prod

LG Display was considering applying microlens on its OLED panels aimed at TVs, TheElec has learned.Microlenses can be used to control the direction of the light reflected from the panel to the direction of the viewer.This improves the efficiency of light extraction, increasing the brightness of the

South Korean equipment maker SFA has won a deal worth over 10 billion won from France’s Verkor for logistics equipment used in battery production, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used in the French battery maker’s pilot line and for the formation process during battery production.The deal

South Korean display equipment maker KPS has unveiled a new fine metal mask (FMM) for use in the production of 15.6-inch notebook OLED panel.The company said it used what it calls a hybrid method to manufacture the FMMs.The prototype was made by assembling cell-level hole masks into one larger mask.