A Samsung Electro-Mechanics executive said on Wednesday that the company was researching metalens.Metalens is a flat lens that have nano particles aligned on its surface.Though the lens is flat, the particles bend the light to collect them.The technology allows lens to be made thinner than they are

Samsung Display has increased its shipment target for notebook OLED panels this year.The company originally aimed to ship over four million units but increased this to between 5.5 million to six million units, people familiar with the matter said.This is 40% to 50% higher than its initial target.The

Samsung Electronics is planning to launch Galaxy S21 Fan Edition (FE) only in the US and Europe, TheElec has learned.The phones are scheduled to launch in October.The limited release is due to problems with procuring application processors. There is currently a global shortage of chips due to high d

Fabless company Eyenix said on Thursday that it will be supplying its internet protocol (IP) camera SoC EN675 series for CCTVs to Seyeon Tech, Cellinx Systems, and Webgate.EN675 SoC will be used in two IP security cameras that Seyeon Tech will launch at the end of June, a Eyenix spokesperson said.Th

OLED panels will be used in 39.8% of smartphones this year and 45% in 2022, according to market research firm TrendForce.This is thanks to wider adoption of the panels by major smartphone brands such as Apple and Samsung, the firm said.But OLED display driver IC supply is currently unable to meet de

Samsung Display and LG Display are expected to spend conservatively on expanding their OLED production capacities in the second half of the year, according to multiple sources working at South Korean equipment makers.There are some expectations that the pair may start investing more on OLED panels f

Hanwha Corporation’s machine business unit was manufacturing battery electrode equipment at its Asan plant to supply to Samsung SDI, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be delivered to Samsung SDI’s battery factory at Geod, Hungary, within the year. The deal is wroth tens of billions of wons, peo

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced a slew of new 5G network solutions.The company unveiled its new chipsets, high performance base station line-up, and 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions at an online event called Samsung Networks: Redefined, first such event hosted by Samsung Network, its ne

Samsung Electronics will use batteries manufactured by China’s EVE Energy on its upcoming new wireless earphones.EVE Energy is currently manufacturing batteries that will be used on the charging case of Galaxy Buds 2.This is the second time that the Chinese company is supplying its batteries for the

Korea Circuit is expected to wrap up the expansion of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) factory next month, TheElec has learned.FC-BGA is a board used for server and PC chips that offers less electric signal loss and more I/O compared to previous wire packaging.Korea Circuit is planning to manu

3D cover glass company JNTC said on Monday that it has completed its third factory in Vietnam.The factory takes up 87,000 meter-square of space, equivalent to 12 football fields, and larger than its first and second factories combined, the company said.JNTC initially planned to complete the third fa

Chip inspection equipment firm Intekplus said on Friday that it will spend 8 billion won to build a new factory at Daejeon.This will double its production capacity and allow to meet the current high demand from the semiconductor industry, the company said.Once the new factory goes live next year, In

Shipment of flexible OLED panels will be around 57 million units in the second quarter this year, a drop of 35% from the previous quarter, according to market research firm Omdia.The drop is due to the second quarter being the off-season and declining shipment of Apple’s iPhones.Flexible OLED shipme

US company Corning will supply ultra-thin glass (UTG) for Samsung’s foldable smartphones, according to market research firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) on Monday.Corning will be a secondary supplier of UTG for the South Korean company’s foldable phones launching in the second half of 202

Samsung Display will begin production of foldable OLED panels for customers Google, Vivo and Xiaomi in October, TheElec has learned.The three companies are planning to unveil their respective foldable phones in the fourth quarter this year.Google is preparing a foldable phone with a 7.6-inch in-fold

Samsung System LSI, the logic chip unit of Samsung Electronics, has begun development of three timing controller (T-Con) for quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels being developed by Samsung Display, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display is planning to send its prototypes of QD-OLED TVs and a monitor to potenti

Samsung Electronics has launched a new SSD to with Zoned Namespace (ZNS) technology applied.PM1731a is built with Samsung’s Gen 6 V-NAND and comes in 4TB and 2TB storage options.It will come in 2.5-inch form, with mass production beginning in the second half of the year, the company said.It is Samsu

LG Energy Solution was close to finishing the development of coin cell batteries, also known as button cells, TheElec has learned.The company will likely compete for orders for them for use in wireless earphones such as Apple’s AirPods and Samsung’s Galaxy Buds with Samsung SDI, Varta and EVE Energy

Chemtronics has pulled out of its plan to buy Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ Wi-Fi module business.Chemtronics’ subsidiary Witz was originally announced to be acquiring Samsung’s Wi-Fi module business for 105.5 billion won back in January.Chemtronics said it was canceling the deal due to the potential f

Samsung Display may extend its production of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels up to the end of 2022, TheElec has learned.Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun said the company was reviewing extending the production of large-sized LCD panels to the end of 2022, in an email sent to employees of its larg