German battery recycling firm Duesenfeld said on Tuesday that it has won the German Sustainability Award 2024.The award, which is in its sixteenth year, selects companies that take climate change and the environment seriously and provide innovation and environmentally friendly processes.Duesenfeld w

SK On has moved staff that focused on prismatic batteries to its research team for 4680 cylinder batteries, TheElec has learned.The battery type is being developed by almost all major lithium-ion battery makers such as LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI, and Panasonic as well as Chinese battery makers

Samsung will be unveiling its Galaxy S24 smartphones on January 17 next year at San Jose, TheElec has learned.The date is two weeks earlier than its Unpacked for the Galaxy S23 smartphones held this year.It is also the first time that the South Korean company is holding its Unpacked event in San Jos

Samsung Display is supplying the OLED panels used on Valve’s handheld gaming computer Steam Deck, TheElec has learned.The latest model of Steam Deck uses a 7.4-inch OLED panel supplied by the South Korean company.The first version launched last year in February used a 7-inch liquid crystal display,

The shortage in photomasks is continuing despite the global economic downturn due to high demand for the commodity from Chinese chip fabless and foundry companies.Photomask makers, Toppan, Photronics, and Dai Nippon Printing, are all maintaining factory operation rates of 100%, sources said.Some Chi

Nextin supplied its Gen 3 wafer inspection equipment during the third quarter, TheElec has learned.The fab equipment maker’s Aegis-3 is its latest equipment that has inspection speed increased by 30% compared to Aegis-2.The deal is worth 7 billion won __ a single unit of the equipment costs US$6 mil

SK Hynix is expected to start using thick krypton fluoride (KrF) photoresist (PR) developed by its own affiliate in the production of 3D NAND, TheElec has learned.SK Materials Performance, previously the electronics material business unit of Kumho Petrochemical that SK Group acquired for 40 billion

LS Cable & System Asia, the largest cable maker in Vietnam, is entering the rare-earth mineral market, TheElec has learned.The company plans to collaborate with a local company, and then supply the minerals to affiliate LS MnM that will smelt them, sources said.Rare-earth minerals refer to 17 heavy

Samsung’s chip business was testing a new key chemical developed by a domestic supplier.The tech giant was conducting a quality test of propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (PGMEA) provided by Chemtronics, sources said.The move is significant as Samsung relied on PGMEA supplies from US and Japanese

Samsung Display has rejected Kateeva’s RGB inkjet equipment that it originally planned to use in the production of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels.The equipment, which domestic firm HB Solution is the distributor of in South Korea, received a “Fail” grade last month in Samsung Display’s testing, source

Power chip maker Onsemi’s fab in South Korea suffered a power outage on Sunday, TheElec learned on Thursday.The fab based at Bucheon was out of power for around 20 minutes starting at 9:30 pm local time on Sunday.The company’s fab was a victim of a wide outage that affected some areas of the cities

Fadu, a South Korean fabless semiconductor company that some have called a ‘unicorn,’ has reported poor earnings for the second and third quarters this year.The combined revenue from the two quarters was only 380 million won, or around US$280,000.This is a shocking turn as its revenue last year when

South Korean fab equipment maker Baco Solution won its first order from a customer based overseas for its physical vapor deposition (PVD) equipment, TheElec has learned.The company won an order from a power management IC maker and had competed with fab equipment maker Applied Materials during the bi

Merck Performance Materials has appealed in its patent lawsuit against Tri Chemical Laboratories (TCLC) over hafnium (Hf) precursor in South Korea.The South Korean patent court validated TCLC’s patents in its first ruling but Merck has appealed, TheElec confirmed on Tuesday.While still in appeal, th

Battery equipment maker Toptec said it has won a large deal to supply its kits to a battery assembly line.Though the company didn’t name its customer, it is highly likely the joint venture between Hyundai Motor and SK On, which is planning to build an EV battery plant in the US.With this latest deal

US car giant Ford has hired a key executive from battery maker Samsung SDI to develop electric vehicle batteries, TheElec has learned.Ford named Kim Sung-hoon, who was a vice president at Samsung SDI, as Chief Battery Engineer, sources said.This is the first time that the US carmaker has given a lea

Samsung will be using a frame case made out of titanium in its upcoming Galaxy S24 Series, TheElec has learned.The Ultra model in the series will be the first to adopt the titanium material and the company plans to expand the application depending on reception, sources said.Apple was the first to ap

Contract prices of DRAM have increased for the first time in two years and three months.According to TrendForce, as of October 31, general-purpose DDR4 8Gb 16x8 2133MHz was priced at US$1.5, a 15.38% increase from the previous month.Other DRAM prices also showed a 10% increase over the same time per

Wonik Holding’s scrubber for semiconductor production was going through Samsung’s quality test, TheElec has learned.The company’s equipment was also going through a quality test by a South Korean 8-inch chip foundry, sources also said.Wonik Holdings wants to focus on high-end scrubbers such as those

LG Electronics said it expects to ship fewer OLED TVs this year compared to last year due to an inadequate supply of OLED panels in the market from the economic slowdownThe South Korean electronics maker said on Friday that TVs were sensitive to consumer income and the recent economic slowdown has c