LG Innotek will be the sole supplier of folded zoom modules for the initial stock of iPhone 16 launching later this year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker was also the sole supplier for the initial stock of iPhone 15 last year.Folded zoom bends light into prisms and sends them to

LG Electronics was considering using flip chip-ball grid array (FC-BGA) made by affiliate LG Innotek on its TVs, TheElec has learned.LG Innotek has been fostering FC-BGA, a high-end chip board, as its new business, so winning the electronics maker as a customer can be a much-needed boost as it can u

Fabless chip firm LX Semicon is entering the intelligent power module (IPM) market, TheElec has learned.The company has succeeded in developing a 600volt (V) IPM for use in home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners and was in talks with LG Electronics for a supply

BH will be supplying the flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) for the camera modules on Samsung’s new foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The board maker becomes the third supplier of the boards to Samsung after NewFlex and SI Flex.BH has so far focused on FPCB for displays but the new deal means

This week, multiple acquaintances messaged me to ask whether a certain report was true.The report, made in South Korean media, claimed that Nvidia asked Samsung to change the design of their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and that this would cause further delays in supply. Coincidentally, Samsung’s sha

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) maker Dowoo Insys is planning to list on the Korean Exchange next year.Company CEO Lee Jae-gyu, told TheElec on Friday that Dowoo Insys will file for the preliminary review to go public to financial authorities in the summer.Kiwoom Securities is underwriting the deal. The secu

AI neural processing unit (NPU) firm Aim Future will open its Series B funding round in the second half of the year, Aim Future CEO Changsoo Kim told TheElec.The startup will open the round sometime between October and November and aim to close sometime in the first half of 2025 with the aim to secu

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow 16% on-year this year, according to analyst firm World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).The market will grow to be worth US$611.2 billion this year, WSTS noted. Its growth projection also increased from the 13.1% it gave late last year.Demand

Microchip Technology is aiming to supply radiation-resistant semiconductors to South Korea’s burgeoning space industry.The company touted its radiation-resistant FPGA and microcontroller (MCU) units during the Advanced Semiconductor Safety Innovation Conference (ASSIC) 2024 conference, hosted by The

German laser firm LPKF Laser & Electronics will supply this year its laser equipment for use in the through glass via (TGV) process of glass chip board production.LPKF CEO Klaus Fiedler told TheElec in an interview that the company signed a deal to ship its kits to a customer working on manufacturin

LG Electronics is attempting to sell battery production equipment to non-LG companies.This stems from its recent failure to win orders from the joint battery factory of LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor in the US, sources said.LG Electronics’ Production engineering Research Institute (PRI), known

Samsung’s chip division has returned to profitability in the first quarter on the back of the recovery of the memory chip market.The South Korean electronics maker said on Tuesday that it recorded 71.92 trillion won in revenue and 6.61 trillion won in operating profit, an increase of 13% and 932%, r

Samsung Electronics vice chairman and co-CEO Han Jong-hee returned from its three-day visit to China on Wednesday.Han, who is also the head of Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) division, which makes smartphones, TVs, and appliances, was accompanied by Samsung’s head of procurement at its TV Business

Samsung’s smartphone business is planning to use OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) from Sony for its extended reality (XR) device, TheElec has learned.Samsung MX Business’ decision to use the Japanese company’s technology over its affiliate Samsung Display, which has also been developing its own OLEDoS techn

LG Electronics has sold 48 patents to Chinese smartphone maker Oppo.According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the South Korean electronics maker sold the standard essential patents to Oppo in November.The SEPs are related to codec, the technology needed to compress digital video an

Samsung said on Wednesday that it has manufactured a sample of a 16-stack high bandwidth memory (HBM).During a local conference hosted by The Korean Microelectronics and Packaging Society, Samsung vice president Kim Dae-woo said the tech giant manufactured the chip with hybrid bonding around a week

LG Electronics CEO William Cho said on Tuesday that the company was open to equity investment and joint ventures with over-the-top content companies.In the TV market today, FAST, or free ad-supported streaming TV, platforms were gaining attention, the CEO stressed during the electronics maker’s annu

TEMC and Matheson Gas Products Korea are in the middle of a legal dispute over alleged trade secret theft that could have huge consequences for their respective bottom lines.Late last year, South Korean prosecutors indicted executives of TEMC over allegedly leaking trade secrets held by Metheson.The

Sound-tracing chip company Exarion said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-project wafer service contract with Asicland, a design house partner of TSMC, for the production of a 12-nanometer (nm) prototype.Exarion’s sound-tracing chip will be made using the Taiwanese chip foundry’s 12nm process a

Hanwha Precision Machinery was developing a new thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment used in wafer fabrication that can deposit molybdenum, TheElec has learned.Molybdenum, compared to tungsten, has a lower resistivity and doesn’t leave fluoride residue after it is deposited.This has made