PI Advanced Materials said on Thursday said it has started production of polyimide (PI) powders.Powders made from PI have excellent heat, electricity, and abrasion resistances, the company said.The material is in high demand from the semiconductor, display, aerospace, and other advanced industries a

Dongwha Electrolyte is preparing to produce electrolytes used in batteries at its factory in Soskut, Hungary, TheElec has learned.The company was actively hiring local workers in preparation, sources said. Dongwha will hire approximately 40 workers for the factory is aiming to increase its operation

Nvidia was working to diversify its sourcing of HBM3 and 2.5D packages used in AI GPUs for data centers, TheElec has learned.The US chip giant was negotiating deals with potential suppliers, which includes Samsung, sources said.Currently, Nvidia, for its A100, H100, and other AI GPUs, uses TSMC for

Battery recycling startup Green Li-ion said on Friday that it plans to enter the South Korean market.The Singapore-based company was founded in 2020 and has investors such as GS, Envisioning Partners, and TES. It has received US$36 million in funding so far.Most battery recycling companies use their

Samsung has started the development of a new smart device that will come in the form of a ring, TheElec has learned.The so-called Galaxy Ring will use circuit boards made by Japan’s Meiko, sources said.Printed circuit boards are usually developed first for electronic devices, followed by the compone

Samsung Display has started the development of LED on silicon (LEDoS) microdisplay technology for applications in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy Team Gong Min Kim believed that in the coming future, LEDoS will replace OLED on silicon (OL

South Korean AI startup Rebellions wants to launch alternatives to AI chips offered by market leader Nvidia.Rebellions CEO Park Sunghyun said the startup’s goal is to, within one to two years, find specific applications that it can offer AI chips that be used instead of those by Nvidia.Specifically,

LG Display believes that OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) technology was the most likely to be applied for virtual reality (VR) devices.At the same time, for augmented reality (AR), LED on silicon (LEDoS) was the more likely technology to become mainstream, Lee Jung-il, LG Display team leader of its Best OL

Nvidia’s influence in the AI chip space is ever-growing, not the least thanks to the success of its GPU software CUDA.Amid this climate, South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI is aiming to carve its mark by developing both hardware and software.Unless chip companies have a software stack that can react

Managing the power efficiency of data centers is a large issue in the chip industry as trends such as AI and self-driving cars are causing exponential increases in the amount of data.Because of this, the amount of data formed in the past two years equaled that of around 90% of the data made througho

Samsung SDI is planning to expand its battery factory at its facility in Goed, Hungary, within the year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker is planning to expand its second factory (the building of which was called stage one internally; the expansion is called stage two) to manufactu

Extended reality (XR) company Virnect is planning to expand from offering XR solutions to customers to launching XR platforms, the company CEO told TheElec.Virnect was founded in 2016 is a software company that offers XR solutions for industrial use.It offers a variety of solutions in a variety of d

LG Display is expected to start manufacturing Gen 8 OLED panels aimed at IT devices a year later than rival Samsung Display.Despite this, LG Display is expected to certainly win orders for its panels from Apple and begin supplying no later than 2026, Choong Hoon Yi, CEO of analyst firm UBI Research,

German-based Paul & Co is expanding its footprint in the fast-rising battery and electric vehicle markets.Founded in 1893, the company offers paper products such as cores, edge protectors, and core boards, and is part of the Kunert Group. Paul & Co Asia handles business in South Korea.The company’s

The EU parliament has passed new regulations with the aim to make batteries more durable, more sustainable, and better performing.EU Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation covers the whole lifespans of batteries, from raw material to distribution with specific goals in the collection of used batte

Fab equipment maker Neosem’s Gen 5 solid-state drive (SSD) inspection equipment has passed the quality test of a South Korean chip maker, TheElec has learned.This means Neosem will be supplying the equipment to the South Korean chip maker for the first time. The equipment maker’s main customer so fa

Samsung has appointed new heads of development for foundry and DRAM, TheElec has learned.Samsung’s chip division, called Device Solution, recently commenced reorganization of its executive vice president-level officials.CTO of its Foundry Business has been named Gitae Jeong, who was previously the h

Samsung Display has filed a patent infringement lawsuit over OLED panels against BOE in the US.The South Korean display panel maker in its complaint filed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas late last month claimed its Chinese rival infringed on five of its patents

The CEO of fab equipment maker APTC said in a letter to shareholders that the company will give it its all to grow amid signs of the global chip industry is seemingly in the road to recovery.APTC CEO Choi Woo-hyung’s 60 pages long letter is the company’s first under the CEO's name.The letter detaile

For microdisplays used in augmented reality (AR) devices, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) had an advantage over LED on silicon (LEDoS) in brightness, Raontech CEO Brian Kim told TheElec.LCoS changes the phase of the reflected light while LEDoS forms self-emitting LEDs on the silicon.Kim’s argument