Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment will account for over 60% of the lithography equipment used in wafer fabrication by 2025, according to an executive of fab equipment firm ASML.Speaking at the 2021 Semiconductor EUV Ecosystem Big Trend Relay Conference hosted by TheElec and the Korea Semiconductor

Smartphone glass firm Ryuk-Il C&S said on Tuesday that it has acquired chemical firm C&A for 1.8 billion won.Ryuk-Il C&S has been looking for new business opportunities since its customer LG Electronics’ exit of their smartphones business in April.LG Electronics had accounted for 80% of Ryuk-Il C&S’

The patent infringement legal battle between LG Innotek and Corephotonics in South Korea is expected to extend to 2022.Earlier this month, Corephotnics had made a filing to the Supreme Court, citing its reasons for appeals against a decision made in the Patent Court of Korea. LG Innotek filed its ow

New Samsung Electro-Mechanics CEO Chang Duck-hyun visited the company’s facility in Busan, his first official move as CEO of the component arm of Samsung.The facility and Busan manufacture multi layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) and flip-chip ball grid arrays (FC-BGA), two key products for the company

Taiwan’s Asus was the largest vendor for OLED notebooks this year, according to analyst firm Sigmaintell.The Taiwanese firm controlled 36% market share in the sector this year, the firm said.This was followed by Samsung and Lenovo, which held market shares of 20% and 16%, respectively, Sigmaintell s

Samsung said on Thursday that it has promoted 198 executives in its year-end reshuffle this year.The company said it has chosen those in their 30s and 40s as vice presidents and executive vice presidents.Promotions were made across all its business units, from TV, smartphones to chips.Samsung said i

Samsung SDI said on Tuesday that it has named Yunho Choi, previously the head of Samsung Electronics’ Management Support Department, as its new CEO.Current CEO Jun Young-hyun will be promoted to vice chairman and oversee the company’s ESG efforts.New CEO Choi joined Samsung Electronics 1987 and had

Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced that it would be combining its mobile and consumer electronic divisions.The merged division will be called Set Division and led by Han Jong-hee, who previously headed Samsung’s Visual Display business unit, which manufacturers TVs, being promoted to vice chai

Samsung Electronics has started an augmented reality (AR) HoloLens project with Microsoft, TheElec has learned.The project, which will last two years, started sometime in the summer this year, sources said. HoloLens is Microsoft’s AR display device model.Samsung had formed a taskforce for the projec

Samsung Display is planning to add three more foldable module lines at its factory in Vietnam by next year to expand its foldable panel production capacity, TheElec has learned.Once the addition is complete, the number of company’s foldable module lines will increase from seven to 10.This will expan

Inkjet printing firm Unijet has supplied inkjet equipment for microOLED to China’s Sidtek, TheElec has learned.The equipment will be used by the Chinese company in its production of microOLED displays.The South Korean company had supplied inkjet equipment for thin-film encapsulation (TFE) for MicroO

Samsung on Tuesday unveiled three new logic chips aimed at automobiles.Exynos Auto T5123, Exynos Auto V7 and S2VPS01 are modem chip, processor infotainment and power management IC, respectively.The modem chip supports 5G telecommunication, which is first for such a chip aimed at automobiles, Samsung

Samsung Electronics had recently sent requests to Samsung Display and AUO to develop a 12.7-inch thin-film transistor (TFT) to apply on its MicroLED TVs, TheElec has learned.Specifically, the South Korean tech giant has requested that the display panel makers develop low-temperature polycrystalline

Samsung Electronics will build a new chip plant at Taylor, Texas with an investment of US$17 billion, the company said on Wednesday.The new semiconductor line will start operations in 2024, Samsung said."Samsung's new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor will bring countless opportunities

Companies from both India and China have shown interest in buying Samsung Display’s liquid crystal display (LCD) equipment at its now-defunct L8-1 LCD production line, TheElec has learned.L8-1 line was previously used by the South Korean display panel maker to manufacture panels for TV and IT produc

Fab equipment maker STI is planning to set up a new subsidiary in the US, TheElec has learned.It will be its fourth subsidiary overseas __ it has ones in China, Taiwan and Singapore.STI supplies central chemical supply systems (CCSS) used in wafer fabrication and display panel production. CCSS, as o

Haesung DS is expected to expand its supply of automotive chip boards next year.Its main customers NXP, Infineon and STMicroelectronics are expected to maintain their high growth rate in 2022.Haesung custom manufactures lead frame and semiconductor package boards for these companies.Earlier this mon

Qualcomm said on Tuesday that it has appointed Kwon Oh-hyung as its senior vice president and president of APAC.The South Korean national will oversee the entire APAC region outside of China and India, The US chip giant said.Kwon will report to Qualcomm senior vice president of global operations Jim

Memory chip board maker TLB said on Wednesday that it will form a subsidiary at Vietnam within the year.It has signed a leasing agreement for lands where it will build a new factory.It will spend 5 billion won for the factory, which will start construction during the first half of 2022 and start par

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that it has developed its first LPDDR5X DRAM.It used its 14-nanometer (nm) extreme ultra-violet (EUV) multi-layer process to develop the mobile DRAM, the company said.It used EUV on five of the layers which increased productivity for the chips, Samsung said.The LP