Fab equipment maker APTC is planning to name an ex-SK Hynix executive as an inside director.Jong-Pil Im, the former head of procurement at SK Hynix, will be named as an inside director while the company will also change its name to VM, the company said in a letter to shareholders.Im started his care

Chinese display giant BOE is planning to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Gen 8 OLED production line, B16, on March 27th, TheElec has learned.The company has sent invitations to both Canon Tokki and Sunic System, which make deposition equipment, for the event, sources said.This likely mean

SK Hynix saw a surge in customer deposits during the fourth quarter last year, the memory chip giant’s regulatory filings showed.The company said it received 57.5 billion won in advanced payment and 1.5855 trillion won in customer liabilities, or customer deposits where an entity receives advanced p

Samsung has recovered the operation rate of its fab in Xian, China to the 70% range, TheElec has learned.The fab is the South Korean tech giant’s only plant aboard that manufactures memory chips and accounts for 40% of its total NAND output.The operation rate of the fab at one time fell to 20% to 30

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has begun installation of equipment in its latest Gen 8.6 OLED production line to be set up at its Asan plant in South Korea.The new A6 line will be built by converting its existing L8 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, and start prod

Samsung was planning to turn its task force for high bandwidth memory (HBM) into a permanent office under the chip division, TheElec has learned.The president of Samsung’s Memory Business, Lee Jung-bae, recently ordered the formation of such an office, sources said.If the task force is converted to

South Korea will be able to retake its position as the largest display panel producer from China by 2027, Samsung Display’s CEO said on Thursday.Samsung Display CEO Choi Joo-sun told reporters at the sidelines of the Korea Display Industry Association’s (KDIA) first board meeting for this year, wher

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

Dongjin Semichem has begun supplying chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry to SK Hynix for the latter’s high bandwidth memory (HBM) production, TheElec has learned.The deal breaks Soulbrain’s monopoly over the material for use in HBM production in South Korea.HBM production by Samsung and SK Hy

SK On has finished the development of its own lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery and will start production in 2026 at the earliest, the company CEO told reporters on Wednesday.While Chinese companies are perceived to have price-competitiveness in the LFP battery market, South Korean companies will

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

Texas Instruments was converting its gallium nitride (GaN) chip production for 6-inch wafers to 8-inch ones in multiple fabs, a company executive said on Tuesday.The analog chip company was preparing 8-inch fabs at Dallas and Aizu in Japan which will allow it to offer more price-competitive GaN chip

Hanwha Precision Machinery was developing a new thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment used in wafer fabrication that can deposit molybdenum, TheElec has learned.Molybdenum, compared to tungsten, has a lower resistivity and doesn’t leave fluoride residue after it is deposited.This has made

Samsung on Tuesday unveiled its Gen 5 HBM, HBM3E, which sports 12 stacks of DRAM modules compared to 8 offered by rival Micron's which was announced hours prior and has started mass production.The South Korean tech giant’s announcement indicates that the competition over the dominance of HMB, or hig

Samsung SDI has finalized its plan to build a third battery factory in Hungary, TheElec has learned.The company is expected to spend over 6 trillion won in expanding its overall facilities this year __ over 1 trillion won of that will go into building the third factory, sources said.Samsung SDI is e

Samsung was considering applying molded underfill (MUF) in its next-generation DRAM, TheElec has learned.The tech giant used thermal compression non-conductive film (TC NCF) in its existing registered dual in-line memory module (RDIMM).But Samsung recently tested a mass reflow (MR) MUF process to 3-

Korea Zinc’s aim to change its corporate charter which it claims is needed to pursue future business opportunities has met an aggressive response from Young Poong Corporation, the largest shareholder of the smelter.Korea Zinc, founded in 1974, has been co-managed by Korea Zinc’s Choi family and Youn

LG Chem is planning to start the operation of one of its key subsidiaries for battery materials one month earlier than planned, TheElec has learned.The precursor factory being built by Korea Precursor Corporation (KPC), the joint venture between LG Chem and Korea Zinc’s subsidiary Kemco, is expected

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

YEST said on Monday that it has developed a new technology that can increase the productivity of the annealing process during wafer fabrication.A high-pressure annealing equipment that uses the technology can process 125 wafers at one time, up from 75 of previous equipment.YEST said global chipmaker