Samsung Display and Japan’s Ulvac will start price negotiation for the Gen 8.5 OLED deposition equipment that the latter will be supplying, TheElec has learned.The pair had been working to develop a deposition machine for Gen 8.5 (2200x2500mm) substrate that uses full-cut substrates and deposits org

Samsung has added Wonik QnC as a supplier of cleaning and coating solution along with the original sole vendor Komico for its planned fab in Taylor, Texas, TheElec has learned.Wonik QnC was forming a local subsidiary in the US to meet Samsung’s demand, sources said.Semiconductors and display panels

LG Energy Solution said on Wednesday that it plans to reevaluate its plan to build a battery plant in Arizona.The company said it was reevaluating when it will invest and how much due to the increased amount needed from the economic downturn.LG Energy Solution said nothing was finalized at the curre

LG Innotek has shared its patents related to car motors with auto parts maker Mando, TheElec has learned.The move likely signals that the pair plan to work together in developing technologies to expand in the electric vehicle (EV) and autonomous vehicle markets.LG Innotek had shared four of its US p

Samsung Display has acquired patents from German firm Cynora related to high-efficiency blue OLED, TheElec has learned.Multiple companies are currently working to develop blue OLED with high efficiency.Cynora is among them and it has been developing thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) bl

Chinese battery equipment maker Lead said on Tuesday that it will be supplying Volkswagen.The turn-key deal will see Lead supply kits for electrode, assembly and formation processes for a capacity of 20GWh.The equipment will be installed next year at the factory in Salzgitter, Germany. Lead will hav

Samsung SDI was preparing a pilot line at its Cheonan plant in South Korea to test batteries it will be supplying to Tesla, TheElec has learned.The batteries are 4680 cylinder batteries (46mm diameter, 80mm length) and the South Korean battery firm will verify the technology within the year, sources

Samsung will start trial production of its 3-nanometer(nm) foundry process for customers this week at the earliest, TheElec has learned.The first customer for the process will be the Chinese application-specific IC firm, sources said.Qualcomm, Samsung’s largest customer, had also made reservations f

Chinese battery giant CATL unveiled its Gen 3 cell to pack (CTP) technology which it claims can offer electric vehicles with 1,000km traveling distance per change.CTP is the company’s key technology that allowed it to win Tesla’s battery orders for the Model 3.Conventional batteries in EVs are made

Samsung is planning to begin production of its new MicroLED TVs that use low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistors (TFT) during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.They will be the tech giant’s first MicroLED TVs that use LTPS TFT instead of printed circuit boards (PCB)

The electric vehicle (EV) battery joint venture between South Korean battery maker SK On and Ford has delayed its spending plan by around three months, TheElec has learned.Blue Oval SK was formed in May of last year and the pair had announced spending of US$11.4 billion from the venture to build bat

Chinese smartphone makers had launched a total of 76 models of smartphones that use OLED panels up to May this year, analyst firm UBI Research said on Wednesday.In the month of May alone, 20 new models were launched, the firm said.Vivo was the top vendor in terms of OLED smartphones, having launched

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Wednesday that it will spend an additional 300 billion won on expanding its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) production capacity.This brings the total tally for the company’s spending on FC-BGA since December to 1.9 trillion won.The additional 300 billion won will

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will go into trial production for server flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.The packages will be made at its Busan facility and are for a major global customer, sources said.The South Korean component maker had so far manufactur

Samsung Display is planning to apply new materials in its production of foldable OLED panels to reduce cost, TheElec has learned.It is planning to use optically clear resin (OCR), which is a liquid, over optically clear adhesive (OCA), which is a film form, to attach the cover window on the OLED pan

South Korean chemical firm SungEel HiTech had won LG Energy Solution and Samsung SDI as customers for its battery recycling service, TheElec has learned.The chemical first was founded in 2000 and specializes in extracting materials for batteries from various products from electric vehicles to consum

Samsung had nearly 50 million units of smartphones in distributor stocks, TheElec has learned.Its mid-tier Galaxy A series took up a huge portion of smartphones in inventory being read to be sold, sources said.They said Samsung is aiming to ship around 270 million units of smartphones this year and

Apple will start evaluating BOE’s samples of OLED panels aimed for the upcoming iPhone 14 this week, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display panel maker is hoping to receive approval from the iPhone maker within the month, sources said.If Apple gives the approval, BOE will start mass production of t

APS Holdings was forming a research line for ultra high resolution fine metal mask (FMM) for application in augmented and virtual reality (AR, VR) MicroOLED displays, TheElec has learned.Its subsidiary APS Materials was building the line at Cheonan.The aim is to make an FMM that can allow for 3000pp

Many of the battery equipment suppliers to Samsung SDI were taking part in the building of a pilot line being built by Norway’s Morrow Batteries, TheElec has learned.Morrow Batteries’ investors include Agdel Energy Venture, the subsidiary of Norway’s electric utility Statkraft, and Denmark’s pension