The regional manager and key executives at KLA’s business unit in South Korea are expected to quit soon, TheElec has learned.KLA-Tencor Korea president Bruce Chung and up to five others have quit or is planning to quit the company soon, people familiar with the matter said.KLA’s US headquarters is e

Samsung Display’s OLED etcher suppliers have begun the development of their new dry etchers for Gen 8.5 OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Wonik IPS, ICD and Tokyo Electron will compete to win orders first from the South Korean display panel maker.Samsung Display is considering manufacturing OLED pane

RAM Tech’s plan to build a new hydrogen fluoride plant at Dangjin, South Korea has been denied by the local government.Dangjin’s city hall said on Monday that it has rejected the plan.Local residents have voiced their opposition to the plan.A RAM Tech spokesperson said the company plans to launch a

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday launched on a new processor for wearable devices that was built with its 5-nanometer extreme ultraviolet process.Exynos W920 will power the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 that will be unveiled this week.The chip sports Arm Cortex-A55 CPU cores and a Mali-G68 GPU core.Samsung

Samsung Electronics has expanded its plan to apply pellicles during the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process used in wafer fabrication starting in 2023, TheElec has learned.The company intended to use pellicles for the wafer fabrication of certain high-value chips, but is now planning to apply it to al

Samsung Electronics is extending its management review of its mobile business this month, TheElec has learned.The review was to last until end of July but this was extended to end of August sources said. Depending on how the review goes, Samsung could commence an audit of its mobile business, they s

Samsung Electronics has ended its semiconductor distribution rights contract with Mujin Electronics as of the end of June, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant will be handing over the rights to electronic component distributor SAMT instead. This process will be done in September.SAMT wil

South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI has won an order from Germany’s Volkswagen to contract manufacture its electric vehicle batteries, TheElec has learned.Samsung SDI to will be handling some portion of the production of Unified Prismatic Cell, Volkswagen’s self-designed batteries, people familia

Equipment maker SFA is looking to acquire Mujin Electronics’ wafer cleaning equipment business, TheElec has learned.SFA is attempting to widen its fab equipment portfolio from the back-end to the front-end.The acquisition will also allow the company to reduce reliance on its display and battery prod

Samsung Display was currently focusing on securing the screen uniformity of its quantum dot nanorod LED (QNED) display panel, as it wraps up development, market research firm UBI Research said on Friday.The research firm unveiled core patents filed by Samsung Display it found, which shows the struct

LB Semicon said on Friday that it posted 121.6 billion won in sales and 12.6 billion won in operating income during the second quarter this year.It is an increase of 14% and 56.2%, respectively, from a year ago.LB Semicon became Samsung Electronics’ secondary vendor for CMOS image sensor testing las

Samsung Electronics recorded 63.67 trillion won in revenue during the second quarter, its highest to date for the quarter.Memory semiconductors led the growth while TV and appliances are posted strong earnings.However, its mobile business recorded lackluster earnings.Samsung said on Thursday that it

DNF said on Wednesday that it will receive 20.9 billion won in equity investment from Samsung Electronics to expand its production capacity and increase R&D spending.A DNF spokesperson said the company plans to start building a new factory near its headquarters in Daejeon late this year or early nex

Samsung Electronics has started the development of a lidar sensor for autonomous driving, TheElec has learned.The company was aiming to commercialize the technology in 2026, people familiar with the matter said.Samsung is aiming to strengthen its automotive business, they said. The company launched

Samsung Display was considering manufacturing thin-film transistors (TFT) that will be used in Micro LED TVs made by Samsung Electronics, TheElec has learned.The South Korean display maker has formed a team to oversee the project, sources said. This team was formed in April and the project is called

There will likely be a shortage of large-sized OLED panels used in TVs starting in 2024, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said.Yi based his forecast on the production capacity for large-sized OLED panels and t here expected demand going forward.Demand for large-sized OLED panels is expected to be aro

Isu Petasys CEO Seo Young-joon said on Thursday that the company’s subsidiary in Hunan province in China has turned a profit in the second quarter.It is the unit’s first profit since 2013, when Isu Petasys acquired the factory from Taiwan’s TTL.Seo said the network printed circuit board (PCB) compan

OLED is widely used in smartphones and smart watches, but hardly in IT applications, or for tablets, notebooks and monitors. Liquid crystal display (LCD) is still the dominant panel used in non-smartphone products.South Korean display equipment maker had hoped for Samsung Display and LG Display to e

Samsung Display and its parent company Samsung Electronics are reviewing potential use of an underused liquid crystal display (LCD) plant in South Korea, which could possibly result in the plant being converted to a semiconductor plant, TheElec has learned.The plant at Cheonan, owned by Samsung Disp

LG InnoTek and Corning are collaborating in the research of liquid lens, their patent filings showed.The pair had decided to share 50/50 stakes in nine US patents related to liquid lens on April 5, documents seen by TheElec showed.Corning decided to share stakes in six of its patents with LG InnoTek