Samsung Display is unlikely to decide within the first half of this year on whether it will spend more to expand its production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.It is unlikely that the company will hold an investment review on QD-OLED during the first half of 2

Samsung Display had said that it will utilize its patents in various ways amid intensifying competition in the mobile OLED space.During Samsung Electronics’ conference call for the fourth quarter, Samsung Display executive vice president Choi Kwon-young said that the company “will utilize its patent

Share prices of LG Energy Solution soared in its debut on the South Korean bourse on Thursday, making the company the second most valued company on KOSPI instantly.The South Korean battery maker was valued at 110 trillion won in its debut, putting it just behind Samsung Electronics’ valuation of 439

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

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 Display is planning to use inkjet equipment from US firm Kateeva for use in its Q1 production line, which manufactures Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display will place the order to HB Solution, which adds software to Kateeva’s inkjet equipmen

Fab and display equipment maker Wonik IPS has hired an ex-Samsung chip expert in its recent reorganization, TheElec has learned.The company named Ahn Tae-hyuk as head and president of its semiconductor research lab.Ahn was last the executive vice president at Samsung SDI, where he oversaw their smal

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

Semiconductor deposition and etching equipment firm TES’ gas-phase etching equipment (GPE) has passed Samsung Electronics’ quality test, TheElec has learned.It is highly like that the fab equipment maker will supply the GPE equipment to Samsung Foundry within the year.GPE equipment is a dry etching

BOE has recently converted the layout of parts of its B12 OLED panel factory so that it can manufacture OLED panels for IT products and automobiles besides just smartphones, TheElec has learned.The phase 3 production line at B12 in Chongqing, China will be able to manufacture OLED panels for smartph

LG Electronics’ TV boss said on Tuesday that the company would “welcome” Samsung joining the OLED TV market.Park Hyoung-sei, head of home entertainment at LG Electronics, said if Samsung Electronics joins the OLED TV market, it will impact the expansion of the ecosystem "positively."Park also stress

SKC is aiming to supply semiconductor package boards to tech giants such as Intel, Nvidia and AMD, TheElec has learned.Its chip package glass subsidiary Absolics will aim to supply the boards, sources said, which will begin production in 2023.In October, SKC had said it plans to commercialize semico

Samsung Electronics and LG Display’s negotiations over the price of TV OLED panels that the latter will supply are hitting a snag due to the parties failing to agree on an appropriate unit price, TheElec has learned.According to sources, LG Display has offered to supply the panels at a price lower t

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

LG Display is planning to apply its new technology on its OLED panels for TV to increase their luminance by 30% during the second quarter next year, when mass production will begin, the company said at a press conference on Wednesday.The technology, called OLED.EX, uses deuterium, one of two stable

SK On, the battery making subsidiary of SK Innovation, has formed a new research center that will focus on the development of next-generation batteries, TheElec has learned.The new Emerging Energy Research Center is located inside its main research hub at Daejeon.It is SK On’s first research center

Samsung Electro-Mechanics held a board meeting on Thursday to approve spending US$850 million, or 1.1 trillion won, in equipment and infrastructure to manufacture flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) at Vietnam.The company will spend the amount up to 2023 to build the new FC-BGA production line.TheEle

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment will account for over 60% of the lithography equipment used in wafer fabrication by 2025, according to an executive of fab equipment firm ASML.Speaking at the 2021 Semiconductor EUV Ecosystem Big Trend Relay Conference hosted by TheElec and the Korea Semiconductor

The patent infringement legal battle between LG Innotek and Corephotonics in South Korea is expected to extend to 2022.Earlier this month, Corephotnics had made a filing to the Supreme Court, citing its reasons for appeals against a decision made in the Patent Court of Korea. LG Innotek filed its ow

New Samsung Electro-Mechanics CEO Chang Duck-hyun visited the company’s facility in Busan, his first official move as CEO of the component arm of Samsung.The facility and Busan manufacture multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) and flip-chip ball grid arrays (FC-BGA), two key products for the company