The legal dispute between the City of Dangjin and Ram Technology over the company’s planned hydrogen fluoride factory has started this month.The company had filed an administrative lawsuit against the city after it refused Ram Technology’s plan to build a factory at Dangjin back in August 2021.Hydro

Spending on display production equipment will drop in 2023 and 2024 compared to this year, according to analyst firm Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC).Spending this year will be US$12 billion but this will drop by 63% to US$4.4 billion next year.This will increase again in 2024 to US$8.3 billi

China’s BOE has been removed from the official list of suppliers for this year of Samsung published by the South Korean tech giant.Meanwhile, China’s Sunny Optical was newly added __ Japan’s Alps Electric, Nitto Denko, and Rohm were also noticeably absent.Samsung publishes its list of suppliers bian

Fab equipment coating and cleaning solution firm Komico is planning to spend at least US$30 million to expand its factory in Austin, Texas, TheElec has learned.The move is done to better react to customer Samsung’s demand there as the tech giant is building a new foundry fab in Taylor.It provides Sa

Hyundai Motor is planning to apply CATL’s cell to pack technology on its new electric vehicles next year.The technology, which puts battery cells into packs directly without modules, will be adopted on new light electric vehicle models such as the Kia Ray first, sources said.However, the auto giant

Chinese display giant CSOT is continuing to postpone the installation of equipment at its T5 factory dedicated to Gen 6 liquid crystal display (LCD) panel production, TheElec has learned.This is despite company chairman Li Dongsheng making a personal visit to South Korea during the summer when he as

Korea Zinc’s expansion into energy and resource development businesses could mean that it could end its relationship with its largest shareholder Youngpoong Group.On Wednesday, Korea Zinc announced that it will commence share swaps with LG Chem and Hanwha Corporation worth 256.7 billion won and 156.

Outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) Winpac company recorded 40.5 billion won in revenue during the third quarter, a jump of 76% year-on-year.The company also recorded an operating profit of 1.2 billion won __ a return to black from last year’s operating loss.Winpac CEO Lee Han-gyu told

Fabless chip firm Abov said on Wednesday that it recorded 45.57 billion won in revenue and 5.256 billion won in operating in the third quarter.Revenue dropped 20% from the prior quarter.The company specializes in microcontroller unit (MCU) which was in short supply during the pandemic.Demand surpass

SK On has started installing equipment into its planned new EV battery factory in Hungary, TheElec has learned.The factory at Ivancsa will be its third factory in Europe. It plans to build two at Ivancsa and the equipment are being placed for the first one.The first factory will have an annual outpu

SFC, the joint venture between Samsung Display and Japanese chemical firm Hodogaya, has succeeded in nullifying a patent related to deuterium used in OLED in South Korea.The patent in question is co-owned by LG Display and Material Science, and was canceled in a ruling by the Intellectual Property T

LG Chem said on Tuesday that it will spend over 4 trillion won to build a cathode factory in the US.The company is aiming to secure an annual production capacity of 120,000 metric tonnes by 2027 for the factory that will be built in Clarksville, Tennessee.LG Chem said the annual amount is enough to

Samsung Display is supply over 70% of the OLED panels that Apple use for its iPhone 14 series, TheElec has learned.This is thanks to the company’s already dominant position helped by setbacks of rivals LG Display and BOE, sources said.Apple is expected to use over 120 million units of OLED panels fo

Enerever Battery Solution is expected to complete the construction of its new battery separator factory in South Korea this month.The factory at Wanju will be the third made by a South Korean company locally after SK IE Technology and WCP.Enerever spend 50 billion won starting in April 2021 for the

South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to showcase their latest technologies at ISSCC 2023 being held in San Francisco in February of next year.ISSCC, or the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, is called the semiconductor design Olympics by South Korean the chip industr

Samsung has removed Japan’s Ibiden from the supply chain for high density interconnect (HDI) boards for its Galaxy S23 smartphone series, TheElec has learned.Ibiden had been a constant supplier HDI printed circuit boards for prior generations of the Galaxy S series.The Japanese company’s removable s

Memory module printed circuit board (PCB) maker TLB saw its operating profit for the third quarter more than double from a year ago.The company said it recorded 56.8 billion won in revenue and 12 billion won in operating profit in the quarter, an increase of 28% and 151% from a year ago.As of the th

Fab equipment maker Nextin expects its revenue from China to double this year compared to 2021, its CEO told TheElec.China was accounting for around 70% of the company’s revenue this year, Nextin CEO Tae Hoon Park said in an interview. The company is seeing its revenue from China double this year, P

The operation rate at Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ factory for multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) in the Philippines has dropped to 40%, TheElec has learned.This was due to the decreasing demand for MLCC, which is also affecting Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden.Samsung Electro-Mechanics and its

BlueOval SK, the battery joint venture between SK On and Ford, is unlikely to Chinese equipment maker for its planned factory in the US due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China.Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors, had also excluded Chinese suppl