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

LG InnoTek has transferred ownership of 76 patents registered in South Korea and the US to display chip firm LX Semicon last month, TheElec has learned.It sold the patents to LX Semicon over two deals, on October 14 and 21. It sold 60 South Korean patents and 16 US patents, people familiar with the

Optical inspection kit maker Nextin was in talks with up to five Chinese semiconductor companies to supply its equipment, TheElec has learned.Earlier this year, won a deal from Chinese foundry SMIC to supply its Aegis 2 kit, a deal worth around 6 billion won.Nextin will supply the kits through Beiji

Hanmi Semiconductor said on Wednesday that it will open a showroom at Suzhou, China to promote its brand of dual-chuck saw called micro SAW.It will be located at an industrial park in the Chinese city where Chinese outsourced assembly and testing companies JCET, Huatian Technology and Nantong Fujits

BOE has started operations of its third flexible OLED line, TheElec has learned.The Chinese display giant’s B12 line at Chongqing, China has started production, people familiar with the matter said.B12 line consists of three stages: the first stage has started production. The second stage will start

Apple and Samsung together controlled 77% of the smartphone market in the US during the third quarter this year, according to analyst firm Counterpoint Research.The iPhone maker had a 42% market share while the South Korean tech giant controlled 35%. This was followed by Motorola’s 8%.Counterpoint R

EcoPro is planning to diversify its battery cathode lineup, including those that use very little cobalt and have high portions of nickel in them.EcoPro chairman Lee Dong-chae said on Thursday at a press conference that the company plans to develop a cobalt-free cathode, also known as NMX, and a low-

The US and China's trade row is continuing. Five years have passed since the inauguration of the Trump Administration that started the row but the two superpowers' economic competition isn't relenting even in the Biden era.The US-China trade row will undoubtedly affect South Korea's semiconductor bu

Edison Motors was considering buying Chinese battery maker eTrust Power, also known as Lixin Jinagu Energy Technology, TheElec has learned.The company wants to secure a battery supply line as it is planning to mass-produce electric vehicles after it acquires SsangYong Motor, people familiar with the

The global anode market for batteries was worth US$3.2 billion in 2020 but will grow to US$14.1 billion in 2027, according to analyst firm QY Research.Silicon anode’s growth will stand out at 76.6% on average per year, accounting for 10.1% of all battery anodes in 2027, beating natural graphite’s 10

South Korean component maker ITM Semiconductor is supplying the protection circuit used in Apple’s latest AirPods, TheElec has learned.It is the South Korean firm’s second deal with Cupertino since 2019 when it supplied such circuits for AirPods Pro.ITM beat Japan’s MinebeaMitsumi and Taiwan’s Compe

LG InnoTek is increasing its spending in its camera module production facilities which it credited to demand rise from its customer.The South Korean component maker said on Thursday that it will raise its spending plan for this year from 547.8 billion won to 835.5 billion won, which is a 53% increas

LG Chem said on Wednesday that it plans to form a joint venture with Japan’s Toray to build a battery separator factory in Hungary.The pair have agreed to form LG Toray Hungary Battery Separator Kft, with each owning half of the stakes of the new company.LG Chem will acquire 20% more stake from Tora

SK Hynix said on Tuesday that it recorded 11.8 trillion won in sales and 4.17 trillion won in operating profit during the third quarter this year.It is an increase of 45% and 220%, respectively, from the third quarter of 2020.The sales figure is SK Hynix’s best quarterly performance to date.The last

LG Energy Solution has been facing difficulty in applying a new production process at its battery factory at Nanjing, China.The company has effectively given up on applying laser notching to the production line there.It had canceled its contract with DE&T, which supplies the laser notching equipment

Posco Chemical said on Monday that it will be supplying battery cathode and anode to Norway’s Morrow Batteries.How much it will supply it yet to be fixed but the Norwegian company is planning to start battery production in 2024.The South Korean chemical company has been providing samples to Morrow s

MiniLED TV panels will become even more affordable than their OLED counterparts in the years to come, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).For a 65-inch UHD TV panel, MiniLED is 2% cheaper compared to OLED as of this year.But the former will be 15% cheaper is 2025, DSCC

Samsung SDI said on Friday that it will form a battery manufacturing joint venture with automobile giant Stellantis.The pair’s joint venture will build a battery factory in the US with a capacity of 23GWh by 2025, the South Korean battery maker said.Samsung SDI said the capacity could be upped to 40

China’s Wise Road Capital will have to pay Magnachip a penalty fee if it fails to follow its plan to buy the chip company, TheElec has learned.The Chinese firm had agreed to pay around 80 billion won in penalty to the South Korean chipmaker in their acquisition contract if its plan to buy them doesn

Mi Equipment Korea said on Friday that it will be supplying its latest z-force laser assisted bonder (ZLAB) __ the Ai Series __ to a global chip assembly and testing company.A die cut out from the wafer is placed on a board with the copper pillar bump facing it. Then, infrared reflow equipment is us