Shipment of OLED panels for IT products such as notebooks and tablets is expected to double next year thanks to Apple launching related products, according to analyst firm Omdia.Last year, 470 million units of display panels for IT products were shipped; out of these, only 9.1 million units, or 2%,

Apple has recently approved the use of a Gen 8 OLED deposition machine developed by Sunic System, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker had previously wanted the South Korean display panel makers to use a machine developed by Japan’s Canon Tokki.Sources said however Apple’s approval wasn’t an active

The chip industry is looking for alternative materials to coolants since major producer 3M’s announcement of halting production.Coolants are used in the etching process in chip production to prevent overheating.Samsung and SK Hynix relied on 3M for the material as it accounted for 90% of the product

Jusung Engineering was on the cusp of wrapping up the development of new equipment that uses its atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, CEO Hwang Chul-joo said on Thursday.Some of the kits are a transistor deposition machine, an inorganic emission display deposition machine and manufacturing equi

Samsung is planning to adopt a new board that will allow for narrower circuit width to apply its new fan-out packaging technology for semiconductor boards.The company can use the semi-additive process to reach a circuit width of 2/2 micrometers, Samsung manager Lee Choong-sun said at the 2023 Advanc

Telecommunication chip company RFHIC was testing a microwave generator with a global fab equipment maker as well as a local South Korean fab equipment maker, TheElec has learned.The generator generates high-spectrum, short-distance microwaves __ widely used in the common microwave.The device is also

South Korean analog chipmaker RFsemi has been sold to Chinese electronics maker Jinping Electronics.RFsemi said on Monday that its largest shareholder will be changed from ex-CEO Lee Jin-hyo to Jinping Electronics.The Chinese company will acquire 20 billion won worth of new shares to be issued on Ma

Famed activist fund KCGI said on Thursday that it has acquired a 7.05% stake in chip foundry DB Hitek.The purchase makes KCGI, which stands for Korea Corporate Governance Improvement, the second largest shareholder of the chip company after DB Inc, which controls 12.42%.KCGI said that it was acquiri

Samsung has already spent around 200 billion won in preparation to start manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors.Sources said the spending amount shows that the tech giant can already manufacture prototypes of certain chips.SiC and GaN are being used in the lates

South Korean chip foundry DB Hitek on Wednesday confirmed that it was planning to expand into 12-inch wafer foundry service.DB Hitek CEO Choi Chang-shik confirmed as such during the company’s annual shareholders meeting.Choi said the company is aiming to expand its foundry business’ valuation to 4 t

Fab equipment maker TES has developed a new plasma cleaner that is going through a quality test by a potential customer, TheElec has learned.South Korean chipmakers have relied on foreign fab equipment makers for the cleaners so TES’ move is meaningful, though commercialization is likely some time a

Yes Power Technix is expected to start operation of its new fab in Busan this month that will manufacture silicon carbide (SiC) power management IC, parent company SK Holdings said on Tuesday.The four-story fab, which went into construction near the end of 2021, will manufacture 150mm SiC power mana

DB Hitek will for the first time supply its OLED display driver ICs aimed at smartphone panels to Samsung Display, TheElec has learned.DB Hitek will begin supplying the 40-nanometer (nm) DDIs to Samsung Display during the second half of 2023, for use in OLED panels in Samsung smartphones.The company

A Supreme Court ruling made on Thursday on the validity of patents related to silicon carbide (SiC) rings owned by Tokai Carbon Korea (TCK) is expected to disrupt the market in South Korea.The ruling maintained the verdict of the appeals court in October last year and validated a patent related to t

Silicon wafer maker SK Siltron is expected to have posted 2.4 trillion won in revenue last year, TheElec has learned.This will be 20% higher than its 2021 figure and was despite the downturn in the global chip market.High demand for chips during the past five years has spurred SK Siltron’s growth.In

SemiFive has secured Doosan Group as an investor in its Series C funding round, TheElec has learned.The system chip design house had aimed to secure 60 billion won in funding during the round but expected secure a total of 70 billion won from investors including Doosan Group.LB Investment and SV Inv

DB Hitek is planning to split off its fabless chip business to better focus on its main chip foundry business, the company said on Tuesday,This is a reversion of its statements made six months ago where the company said it will not split off its fabless chip business unit after small shareholders vo

South Korean chip startup Morumi is aiming to develop a CPU that can process data in complete parallel.Theoretically, this means the processor can infinitely increase the number of cores, increasing its performance substantially.Morumi CEO JB Lee told TheElec said this makes the company a “first mov

It seems Japan’s trade restriction against South Korea for certain key materials used in advanced tech production that lasted four years is about to end.The South Korean government has agreed to pay compensation to its own citizens who were forced to work in Japanese factories during World Word Two.

Chip and display equipment maker Global Zeus is aiming to expand its robotics business this year, a company executive told TheElec Global Zeus Factory Automation Business ABD BU head Hwang Jae-ik said the company is planning to double the revenue from its robotics business this year.The company is a