Intel will begin mass production of 1.8-nanometer (nm) chips, called 18A by the company, in 2025, CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday at Innovation 2023 in San Jose.18A is at the tail end of the five nodes that Gelsinger unveiled in 2021 in which he said the company will develop.The CEO said the compa

BOE had the second-highest number of patents related to display panels registered in the US, according to a South Korean lawyer.The Chinese display giant filed and registered the second largest number of patents from 2013 to August 2023, only behind Samsung Display, Dana Patent Law Firm Senior Partn

BOE is hoping to get Apple’s approval next month to supply OLED panels for the standard version of iPhone 15, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display giant had earlier in the year hoped to win orders for two models in the iPhone 15 series __ the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, which have 6.1-inch and

Chip and electronics material company Soulbrain is planning to acquire precursor maker DNF, TheElec has learned.The deal is expected to close within the year and is reportedly worth around 100 billion won, sources said.Soulbrain Holdings, the holding company of the Soulbrain group, will be the acqui

Samsung Display is expected to see its supply of OLED panels for iPhones grow again this year.The South Korean display panel maker received Apple’s approval for all models of OLED panels it will supply to the four models on the iPhone 15 Series and has begun delivery, TheElec has learned.In contrast

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,

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

Display production equipment maker Sunic System said on Tuesday that it will be supplying its deposition machine for OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) to Chinese display panel maker SeeYa.The deal is worth 32.2 billion won and the contract will last until June of 2024.OLEDoS is a microdisplay that is touted

HB Technology will be supplying automated optical inspection (AOI) and repair equipment to glass substrate maker Absolics, a subsidiary of SKC, TheElec has learned.It is a new revenue source for HB Technology, which never supplied inspection equipment for glass substrates for chip packaging before.I

Hanwha Solution is planning to complete the construction of its OLED fine metal mask (FMM) factory being built at Asan within the year.However, the company is yet to secure a customer, sources said.FMM is used to form the red, green and blue subpixels of an OLED panel. Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing is

BOE chairman Chen Yanshun didn’t make a visit to Samsung, a key customer of the Chinese display panel maker, during his visit to South Korea in April, TheElec has learned.It is extremely rare for a high-level company executive of a component maker to not make a visit to a customer during a foreign t

Chinese display panel makers monopolizing the liquid crystal display (LCD) market will in the long run threaten the TV businesses of Samsung and LG, according to UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi.Yi told TheElec in an interview on Tuesday that while many see the dominance of Chinese companies in the L

Samsung Display is almost certainly expected to use its M12 material set for OLED panels that it will supply to Apple for iPhone 15 series this year, sources told TheElec.The South Korean display panel maker used the material set for the first time last year for the two top-tier models of the iPhone

Samsung Display will start manufacturing OLED panels for the iPhone 15 Series in May, a month earlier than initially planned, TheElec has learned.This is because BOE, which was given the order by Apple to manufacture some OLED panels for the standard model of iPhone 15, is facing problems in product

Executive and employees of display and battery production equipment maker Toptec have been found guilty of leaking the technologies of customer Samsung Display to Chinese competitors.The Suwon High Court, the appeals court, overturned a ruling of not guilty from the district court on Tuesday and fou

BOE was facing problems in developing OLED panels aimed at Apple’s iPhone 15, TheElec has learned.The hole display was facing a light leakage problem __ where the light that isn’t properly covered by the screen comes from the corners or edges. And in this case, the light was leaking out of the hole

The CEO of Chinese display giant BOE is visiting Japan for a meeting with those at display production equipment maker Canon Tokki, TheElec has learned.The visit by BOE CEO Gao Wenbao is expected to be made around the middle of the month, sources said.His visit is likely being made to secure earlier

The Korean CEO of TCL CSOT will step back from management of the Chinese display giant.TCL CSOT CEO Kim Woo-shik, who is also senior vice president of TCL, will leave his current role and become an advisor at TCL.Kim, who previously worked at LG Display before joining the Chinese firm, had been at C

China’s BOE has been removed from the official list of suppliers for this year of Samsung published by the South Korean tech giant.Meanwhile, China’s Sunny Optical was newly added __ Japan’s Alps Electric, Nitto Denko, and Rohm were also noticeably absent.Samsung publishes its list of suppliers bian

Samsung Display is supply over 70% of the OLED panels that Apple use for its iPhone 14 series, TheElec has learned.This is thanks to the company’s already dominant position helped by setbacks of rivals LG Display and BOE, sources said.Apple is expected to use over 120 million units of OLED panels fo