Ion implant equipment maker Axcelis Technologies is expected complete its first foreign factory in South Korea in the second half of the year, the company said.The new factory will allow it to respond quickly to customers such as Samsung, SK Hynix and ON Semiconductor as well as overall demand in As

PI Advanced Materials said on Friday that its new optical polyimide (PI) film production line with an annual capacity of 750 metric tonnes has started production.With the additional capacity, the company now has an annual production capacity of 5,250 metric tonnes from its facilities in Gumi and Jin

Surplus Global said on Thursday that it has shipped its first 300mm test wafer from its cleanroom for foundry research.The company launched a new service earlier this year that offers a test bed to make wafers for customers.Surplus Global offers to make 300 thin film test wafers and analysis of elec

Samsung is planning to reduce the number of rear camera modules on its mid-tier Galaxy A series starting next year, TheElec has learned.The company will most likely remove the depth camera that was considered underutilized and instead focus on increasing the specifications of the remaining cameras,

Scrubber and chiller maker Global Standard Technology (GST) is planning for a subsidiary to support its customer Samsung at Taylor, Texas, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant is planning to build a new fab in the US city.GST is expected to secure lands for its subsidiary within the third

Hyundai Motor had up to recently considered using batteries made by China’s CATL in all its vehicle models, TheElec has learned.The pair had discussed replacing lead-acid batteries used in both gas-run and electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries, sources said.They have even agreed on the size a

Samsung has scrapped its plan to develop and launch a Galaxy S22 Fan Edition (FE) model to focus on expanding the sales of Galaxy S22 Ultra, TheElec has learned.The company had initially planned to manufacture around 3 million units of Galaxy S22 FE this year.But as the chip shortage continues and t

Samsung will begin applying modified semi additive process (MSAP) package technology in DRAM production starting with double data rate 6 (DDR6) and onward, a company executive said.Samsung test & system package (TSP) vice president Younggwan Ko said during a seminar in Suwon, South Korea, that packa

Samsung was buying fewer TV display panels from BOE due to a royalty issue, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant had demanded that the Chinese display panel maker pay around 100 billion won in royalty payment if they want to advertise that they are supplying their liquid crystal display (

As Samsung is gearing up for the launch of its new foldable smartphones this year, it has in turn set a more conservative shipment target for its follow-ups to launch next year, TheElec has learned.This was because of the overall dim outlook for smartphone sales going forward as well as economic und

TCL chairman and CEO Li Dongsheng will visit Samsung Electronics during his trip to South Korea later this month where he will also visit South Korean display equipment makers, TheElec has learned.Li is expected to secure from Samsung purchase orders for display panels for CSOT, TCL’s display panel-

Samsung SDI, besides the 4680 (46 diameters, 80mm length) batteries it is developing for Tesla, has added two new cylinder batteries spec in its development project, TheElec has learned.Besides 4680, a spec Tesla unveiled for the first time back in September 2020, the South Korean battery maker will

Fine Technix is likely aiming to enter Samsung’s supply chain for hinges used in their foldable smartphones.The South Korean smartphone giant had so far used hinges mostly from supplier KH Vatec.Fine Technix had said earlier this month during an investors relations conference that its new subsidiary

Samsung Electronics was selling its key QD (quantum dot)-OLED TV model at a price point US$200 lower than its main competition W (white)-OLED TV made by rival LG Elecronics, analyst firm UBI Research says.Samsung’s 65-inch QD-OLED TV model, S95B, was being sold for US$2,800 on BestBuy, compared to L

Samsung Display had received requests from its customers to develop a MicroOLED panel, something which it had been avoiding so far due to expected low profitability, TheElec has learned.These customers include Samsung Electronics, its parent company, and another of its main customer Apple as well as

SK Hynix has named its global sales and marketing president Jongwon Noh to jointly hold the new position of chief synergy officer of Solidigm, TheElec has learned.Its task force, which was created during the process of the acquisition of Intel’s NAND business unit had also become a permanent team ca

LG Innotek said on Thursday that it was working on technologies related to metalens, which rival Samsung Electro-Mechanics was also working on.LG Innotek CTO Kang Miseok, speaking at an industry conference in South Korea, confirmed the company was working on technology while speaking of how to apply

Hanwha Momentum, the battery equipment business unit of Hanwha Corporation, was actively hiring staff, including those from Samsung and LG, to bolster its battery equipment operation, TheElec has learned.The business unit had recently hired Kwon Ki-suk, whose previous position was an executive advis

TCL chairman and CEO Li Dongsheng will visit South Korea near the end of the month to meet local display panel production equipment makers, TheElec has learned.His visit to South Korea is scheduled ahead of his trip to Japan where he plans to visit Japanese display panel maker JOLED.Li is expected t

Cryo vacuum pump company Cryo H&I said on Tuesday that it has developed an ultra-low temperature refrigerator that can test the compression and tensile characteristics of metals.The machine can offer temperatures at minus 253 Celsius and is aimed at companies that need to store liquid hydrogen and d