Samsung has removed Japan’s Ibiden from the supply chain for high density interconnect (HDI) boards for its Galaxy S23 smartphone series, TheElec has learned.Ibiden had been a constant supplier HDI printed circuit boards for prior generations of the Galaxy S series.The Japanese company’s removable s

Memory module printed circuit board (PCB) maker TLB saw its operating profit for the third quarter more than double from a year ago.The company said it recorded 56.8 billion won in revenue and 12 billion won in operating profit in the quarter, an increase of 28% and 151% from a year ago.As of the th

Fab equipment maker Nextin expects its revenue from China to double this year compared to 2021, its CEO told TheElec.China was accounting for around 70% of the company’s revenue this year, Nextin CEO Tae Hoon Park said in an interview. The company is seeing its revenue from China double this year, P

The operation rate at Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ factory for multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) in the Philippines has dropped to 40%, TheElec has learned.This was due to the decreasing demand for MLCC, which is also affecting Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden.Samsung Electro-Mechanics and its

BlueOval SK, the battery joint venture between SK On and Ford, is unlikely to Chinese equipment maker for its planned factory in the US due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China.Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors, had also excluded Chinese suppl

Qualcomm will continue using multiple foundries to manufacture its chips, one of its executives said on Tuesday.The US chip giant was continuing to collaborate with Samsung Foundry and will use multiple foundries, from the South Korean company, TSMC to GlobalFoundries, depending on their technologic

Hyundai Motor chairman Chung Eui-son met CATL CEO Zeng Yuqun earlier this month to discuss using the Chinese battery maker’s products on its car models, TheElec has learned.Zeng, who also goes by Robin Zeng, was accompanied by three president-level executives in his meeting with the chairman of the

The OLED panel that Samsung will use for its Galaxy M54 smartphone launching next year will be developed by Chinese display panel makers BOE and CSOT, TheElec has learned.The Galaxy M series is mostly sold online as a budget model in Southeast Asia.Samsung sells millions of units of the phone but th

ASML’s highly anticipated high-NA EUV equipment will begin shipping in 2024 and cost between 300 to 350 million euros per unit, CEO Peter Wennink said in a conference in Seoul on Tuesday.High-numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) is an upgraded version of the Dutch company’s prior EUV eq

LG Chem was in the final steps of approving its spending plan to build a battery cathode factory in the US, TheElec has learned.The company is likely to build the factory in Clarksville, Tennessee, where subsidiary LG Energy Solution is building two factories through its joint venture with General M

Samsung has removed Partron as a camera module supplier from the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Z Fold 5 phones launching next year, TheElec has learned.Partron had been a major supplier of camera modules for the Galaxy Z Fold 4 that launched earlier this year in August.It was a secondary supplier of ca

SK On’s new joint battery factory with Ford to be built in Ankara, Turkey will be almost identical to its factory in Hungary.Local conglomerate Koc will also be a partner in the factory, which will be built in the special industrial zone at Baskent.The factory is almost an exact copy of SK On’s firs

The global chip market is expected to recover in the second quarter of next year, analysts firm IC Insights said in its forecast.The firm said the market will contract by 9% during the third quarter of this year and will further contract by 8% and then by 3% again in the first quarter of 2023.After

SK Hynix was developing a new CMOS image sensor (CIS) that uses neural network technology, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory giant is planning to embed an AI accelerator into the CIS, sources said.The accelerator itself is based on SRAM combined with a microprocessor __ also called in-memo

Samsung will complete the construction of its new P3 foundry fab next year, TheElec has learned.The tech giant originally planned to finish construction within the year.Samsung only started construction of the cleanroom of the fab late last month, sources said.This reflects the delay that began when

LG Display has unveiled a prototype stretchable display that can stretch by 20%.The company said on Tuesday that the display, which can be extended, folded, and twisted, can expand in size from 12-inch to 14-inch.The stretchable display is also full color, meaning it has red, green, and blue pixels,

LG Display’s plan to invest in OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) production is facing delays.The company was originally expected to place orders for the equipment needed for production sometime in the third quarter.But LG Display is yet to do so and a decision is unlikely until December, sources said.OLEDoS

Samsung Display was considering expanding its quantum dot (QD)-OLED production capacity in order to win orders from Apple for their monitors, according to analyst firm UBI Research.The South Korean display panel maker was considering investing in QD-OLED production at its newly planned factory, like

Batteries, biopharmaceuticals, and chips. These three products are largely considered to be Samsung’s three growth engines today by observers of the South Korean conglomerate.Samsung SDI is the subsidiary that handles batteries.But in contrast to the other two products, Samsung SDI’s investment in t

China’s Sunny Optical will be supplying two camera modules that will be used as back cameras on Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra launching next year, TheElec has learned.The deal is expected to be highly profitable for the Chinese camera module maker as Samsung is planning to manufacture the most number o