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

Elentec said it will be collaborating with US battery firm Enovix on battery pack research.Elentec will turn battery cells made by Enovic to battery packs under the partnership.The US firm specializes in high-performance batteries that use silicon cathode, the South Korean battery pack firm said.Eno

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

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

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

Whether demand for TVs recovers this year in Europe will determine the outlook of the global TV panel market this year, a senior analyst at Omdia said on Wednesday.Inflation and the war in Ukraine have dented demand for TVs in Europe, Omdia senior principal analyst JinHan Ricky Park said Korea Displ

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

Samsung is planning to use OLED panels from both Samsung Display and LG Display for its main OLED TV series S90D launching this year, TheElec has learned.Out of its three most popular OLED TV series S95D, S90D, and S85D, S90D accounts for the most volume.Samsung Display has been supplying its quantu

LG Electronics said on Monday that it will launch its 2024-model TVs in South Korea next month.The new models in its premium OLED Evo and QNED brands will come with upped AI deep learning and clearer picture qualities, the company said.LG OLED Evo TVs will come in 97, 83, and 77-inch sizes as well a

South Korea’s semiconductor exports in January increased substantially, showing the global chip market is on track to rebound.The Ministry of Science and ICT said on Friday that the country recorded US$16.35 billion in exports and US$11.85 billion in imports for tech-related products, resulting in a

LG Electronics said it expects to ship fewer OLED TVs this year compared to last year due to an inadequate supply of OLED panels in the market from the economic slowdownThe South Korean electronics maker said on Friday that TVs were sensitive to consumer income and the recent economic slowdown has c

There was increasing interest within Samsung Display in technologies that can be applied to manufacture OLED panels without the use of fine metal masks (FMM), TheElec has learned.This interest was sparked after the Society of Information Display conference held in May this year where new production

LG Display has decided not to start investment and construction of a production line for OLED on silicon (OLEDoS) this year, TheElec has learned.OLEDoS deposits organic materials on silicon instead of glass and is a technology to make high-resolution microdisplays.LG Display plans to continue to foc

German OLED material firm Novaled has nullified three patents related to OLED registered in South Korea owned by rival Solus Advanced Materials, TheElec has learned.Novaled is Samsung’s subsidiary as its affiliates Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI and Samsung Display together own 100% of its shares.

The CEO of South Korean display panel maker LG Display told reporters on Wednesday that the company’s earnings will gradually improve going forward in the second half of the year.LG Display CEO Jeong Ho-young was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the industry conference K-Display, hosted by

Samsung Display has started the development of LED on silicon (LEDoS) microdisplay technology for applications in augmented reality (AR) devices.Samsung Display Vice President and Head of Technology Strategy Team Gong Min Kim believed that in the coming future, LEDoS will replace OLED on silicon (OL

Samsung placed an order to LG Display to procure white-OLED panels earlier this month, TheElec has learned.The order is small and Samsung is planning to use the panels for the development of a W-OLED TV it will unveil later in the year, sources said.LG Display will deliver the panels to Samsung with

Inkjet printing solution firm Enjet’s earnings this year will again be determined by Samsung and Samsung Display.Enjet, which listed on Kosdaq last year, is aiming for an annual revenue of 44.8 billion won and an operating profit of 18.2 billion won, sources said.These goals are higher by 2 times an

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