SK Siltron has developed a recycling technology in which 95% of the wasted slurry in semiconductor wafer production can be reused, the company said on Tuesday.The technology was co-developed with Korea University of Technology and Education and Cleansolution.Slurry used to flattened the unnecessary

Samsung Electronics said it expects to ship over 100,000 units in total by August for TVs that have screen sizes of 75-inch or larger, the company said on Tuesday.The company launched a new commercial for its QLED 8K TV model.Samsung showed off how a big screen can be best when viewing movies in the

LG Display said on Tuesday its organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel for TVs have received Intertek’s Accurate Picture Quality certification.The UK-based quality assessment company measured the delta zero color fidelity, black luminance and viewing angle colorshift of the OLED panel.LG scored 0.

The shipment of OLED panels for smartphone nosedived in the second quarter of 2020 to 87 million units, UBI Research said on Monday.It is a fall of 23.1% from the same time period a year ago and a drop of 17% from the first quarter of 2020.The shipment decline came from low shipment of rigid OLED pa

Seoul National University professor Hong Yong-taek has won the 17th Merck Award at International Meeting of Information Displays (IMID), Merck Korea said on Monday.The price is given for academic papers in display technology. The award was set by IMID and hosted by Korean Information Display Society

Hanmi Semiconductor has accrued 2020 unit sales for its vision placement equipment, the company on Wednesday.The equipment are used to clean, dry, inspect, select and load semiconductor packages.Hanmi began producing them back in 1998. A company spokesperson said the company had an 80% global market

South Korean gallium nitride (GaN) epiwafer start-up IVWorks has signed a technology transfer agreement with its US counterpart IntelliEPI, the company said.IVWorks will supply IntelliEPI with its 8-inch GaN-on-Si (silicon) epiwafer and 6-inch GaN-on-SiC (silicon carbide) epiwafer made from its mole

Samsung Electronics will run pre-orders for its Galaxy Tab S7 series from August 18 to 22 for South Korea, the company said on Friday.The regular Galaxy Tab S7 comes with a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) for the first time for a flagship tablet. It has used LCD for Tab S7 Lite launched earlier this ye

3D cover glass maker JNTC has posted operating profits of 59.3 billion won and sales of 199.2 billion won in the first half of 2020, the company said on Friday.Operating profits grew by 198 times compared to the same time period a year ago and sales rose 51.1%, the company said.The company posted 12

Display equipment maker Invenia has clinched a 65 billion won supply deal with HKC of China, the company said on Friday.The amount of the deal is level with that of its sales for the first half of 2020, which was 66.9 billion won.The contract will last until August 19.Invenia’s main good its its dry

Maxim Integrated has launched two new smartphone super-charging chips, the company said on Wednesday.They are MAX77958 and MAX77962. MAX77958 supports USB-PD 3.0 and offers up to 100W of power. It supports two USB ports.MAX77962 has a high-power field effect transistor and offers 28W charging in hal

LG Uplus has launched a new loss and damage insurance for premium smartphones that Galaxy Fold was eligible for, the telco said on Thursday.The carrier said the plan was 6% to 9% cheaper than competitor’s. It was also cheaper than insurance plans offered by smartphone makers.LG Uplus stressed that i

Samsung Electronics has succeeded in applying 3D stacking technology on extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-based 7 nanometer (nm) chips, the company said on Thursday.The technology is called eXtended-Cube, or X-Cube, and stacks the SRAM on top of the logic die.It uses Samsung’s through silicon via (TSV) tech

Kolen was developing three 64MP lens, the company said on Thursday.It was following request from a major client, the lens maker said. It didn’t name its client.Kolen is a supplier to Samsung Electronics. The South Korean tech giant has used 64MP lens for its premium smartphones last year and expandi

Taiwanese industrial network firm Moxa has launched the new MC-1220 series of edge computers, the company said on Thursday.The MC-1220 series come with Intel core i7, i5 and i3 with multiple extended interface. It supports hardware accelerators like VPU.They also support Intel OpenVINO tool kit used

Seoul Viosys and University of Ulsan have developed a diagnostic tool that can detect cancers in pet with a responsiveness of 95%, the company said on Thursday.The pair used Viosys’ Violeds LED technology that uses ultraviolet light.They used it to compared blood samples of healthy pets and those wi

SKC will secure a 100% stake in its subsidiary SKC Solmics, the company said on Wednesday.SKC will buy 42.3%, equivalent to 25,972,532 shares, stake of SKC Solmics through tender offer and comprehensive share swap to make it a wholly owned subsidiary, it decided in a board meeting.The public takeove

SK Hynix has invested in a US Start-up that provides Reduced Instruction Set Compute-V commercial core.SiFive raised an additional US$60 million in funding from SK Hynix and Saudi Aramco, Reuters reports. Existing investors Intel, Qualcomm and Western Digital also joined the funding round.A SK Hynix

Synopex has posted an operating loss of 800 million won and sales of 92.6 billion won in the first half of 2020, the company said on Tuesday.The company stressed that sales were higher than the 80.5 billion won in 2019 in the same time period despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Synopex said

Samsung Display announced on Wednesday that it has adopted its Adaptive Frequency technology on the Galaxy Note20 Ultra that can save 22% more in panel power consumption.Adaptive Frequency is the brand name given Samsung Display’s low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) thin-film transistor (TF