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

Semiconductor IP company Qualitas Semiconductor has begun IP development for UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect express), an area currently dominated by global giants Synopsis and Cadence.Qualitas Semiconductor CEO Duho Kim told TheElec that the company is hoping to produce a prototype in three ye

Samsung’s shipment rate for its latest foldable phones Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 were 10% higher than their predecessors, TheElec has learned.As of mid-September, the tech giant had over 8 weeks of inventory left for the two models, which means they are selling steadily.Samsung orders part

Solus Advanced Materials said on Monday that it has received approval for its thin foils from memory chip giant SK Hynix.It will be the first case that a domestic copper foil company supplies such a product to SK Hynix.The thin foils, which are ultra-thin at 2 micrometers, are aimed at use in a modi

EcoPro Materials said on Tuesday that it was issuing 14.47 million new shares for its listing on the Korean exchange.The upper cap is 46,000 won and it is hoping to raise up to 665.9 billion won from the listing.EcoPro Materials, a subsidiary of battery cathode maker EcoPro, produces precursors used

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

LG Energy Solution said on Thursday that its lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery for energy storage systems (ESS) was level in performance with its nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) counterparts.Its own test showed that its NCM batteries for ESS had a round trip efficiency (RTE) of 97%, while its LFP v

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

CGP Materials said on Monday that it has signed a MOU with Nissan Chemical Corporation to supply key chemical materials.Nissan Chemical was formed in 1887 and is Japan’s first chemical company. It supplies materials used in semiconductors, displays, biological science, and medicines and records an a

South Korean semiconductor materials firms are expected to see their supply decline for the remainder of the year as memory chip makers reduce their NAND production output.Some companies have reduced as much as over 50% of their material supply for NAND production compared to last year, sources said

South Korean printed circuit board company Korea Circuit was supplying high-end automotive flip chip (FC)-ball grid array (BGA) boards to STMicroelectronics, TheElec has learned.Korea Circuit first secured Broadcom as a customer when it began manufacturing FC-BGA.STMicroelectronics was accounting fo

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

Thermal compression (TC) bonders are in high demand from the launch of high bandwidth memory (Hbm) and 3D packaging by chipmakers.Accordingly, chipmakers are diversifying their suppliers. Samsung is procuring them from Toray, Shinkawa, and its own subsidiary Semes, sources said.Meanwhile, SK Hynix i

Battery and display equipment maker SFA said on Tuesday that it will launch a new battery electrode equipment that uses laser next year.The company acquired battery electrode equipment maker CIS in March.SFA said it will combine CIS’ coating and dry processing technologies with its existing laser te

Samsung Electronics has given exclusive licensing rights of its 96 patents related to semiconductors to one of its IP subsidiaries, a move that could indicate that the tech giant may use patent lawsuits to protect its business interests in the sector.The company gave the rights over the 96 US patent

SK On said on Thursday that it has developed an oxide solid electrolyte with high ion conductivity.The South Korean battery maker, together with Dankook University Professor Hee Jung Park, coated a controllable additive on Li-La-Zr-O that improved the ion conductivity by 70% than before (1.7 mS/cmž)

LG Display on Wednesday shared the list of its customers for its automotive OLED panels.The South Korean display panel maker had General Motors, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche, and Lucid as its customers, LG Display Senior Vice President of Automotive Business Group Byeong Koo Kim said at IMID 20

EcoPro said on Wednesday that it will form a subsidiary EcoPro Cam Canada LP that will handle the building of a new battery cathode plant at Bécancour, Quebec, Canada.Approximately 1.2 trillion won has been earmarked for the project, with half of the amount to be delivered by EcoPro Cam Canada LP an

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.

Samsung unveiled new chips that combine memory and processor chips at Hot Chips 2023 conference on Tuesday.The chips, high bandwidth memory (HBM)-processing in memory (PIM) and LPDDR-PIM, are aimed at future AI applications, the tech giant said.Applying these chips for generative AI applications wil