Vinatech said on Friday that it will spend 86 billion won to build a new factory to manufacture supercapacitors and membrane electrode assembly (MEA) at Wanju, South Korea.The new factory will be built on 58,494 meter-square of land at the second industrial zone at Wanju.Supercapacitors stores elect

Edison Motors and Semisysco will collaborate in the sales of electric trucks and buses, the pair said on Friday.They will use their motor, battery management system, and light car body technologies to expand their portfolio in electric vehicles and SUVs, they said.They will also continue advance the

LG Energy Solution said on Thursday that it has supplied its batteries for an energy storage system (ESS) in the US.The South Korean battery firm supplied batteries to US energy firm Vistra’s 1.2GWh ESS at Monterey, California.The ESS can power 225,000 households at peak hours, LG Energy Solution sa

A Japanese non-practicing entity (NPE) has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Nokia and Ericsson using a patent it bought from LG Electronics.IP Bridge claimed in its lawsuit filed to the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on June 11 against Nokia and Ericsson that the former i

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to grow 3.4% this year, led by semiconductor boards, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The local PCB market is expected to be worth 10.86 trillion won in 2021, the KPCA said.Base in area, the market is expected to c

SK Innovation was planning to apply cathode supplied by China’s Ronbai Technology for its new batteries, TheElec has learned.The cathode will be for a new high-nickel battery with over 80% nickel. Ronbai’s subsidiary in South Korea, which is building a production facility in Chungju, will likely han

Hyundai Wia said on Tuesday that it has formed a new research unit for urban air mobility (UAM).The company, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor, said was preparing to develop landing device and controller for use in UAM.UAM aims to offer air taxis that have low noise, use environmentally friendly propell

Chip testing firm APACT said on Monday that it plans to start a new system semiconductor backend business for new growth.The company will open a new sales office in Pangyo to start the business in full-scale, it said.APACT will place sales personnel and engineers at the new office to aggressively wi

A Hyundai Motor Company executive declined to comment on whether the conglomerate was planning to develop and manufacturing its own semiconductors on Friday.But Seoho Choi, vice president of technology innovation business development group at Hyundai, said at an industry event called Seoul Smart Mob

Biolog Device said on Friday that it will inject an additional 1.75 billion won into Hivics, which it has acquired last month.The added funds will be used by Hivics to hire doctorate engineers specializing in electric cars, autonomous cars, AI and IoT, Biolog Device said.Hivics will also hire more p

Samsung SDI is planning to spend up to 200 billion won to expand its production capacity of cylinder batteries at its factory in Seremban, Malaysia.The company is likely to manufacture 21700 batteries with a capacity of over a million cells per month, or 2GWh per year, through the new production lin

Hanwha Systems will set up a subsidiary in California for its urban air mobility (UAM) business, CEO Kim Youn-chul said on Thursday.The company was planning to hold talks with US Federal Aviation Administration on setting a certification standard for UAM, Kim said at an industry event in Seoul.Hanwh

Hyundai Motor Company said on Thursday that it has signed a collaboration agreement with South Korea’s capital Seoul to build an urban air mobility (UAM) ecosystem.The company claimed it will commercialize UAM by 2028, at an industry event held in Seoul. It will collaborate with Seoul to make UAM so

Bosch on Monday opened its new 300mm wafer factory in Dresden, after spending 3 years in its construction.The factory will begin manufacturing chips in September.It is the German automotive chip giant’s first 30mm wafer fab. It was built in 72,000 meter-square of space and manufacture chips using th

Chip testing firm Itek will collaborate with chip packaging company Unichips to enter the Chinese market.Itek said on Tuesday that the pair will share market information and analysis of the Chinese market to enter the semiconductor testing sector there.Itek’s focus in on testing system semiconductor

AI chip firm Graphcore said on Monday that it will be supplying its intelligence processing unit (IPU)-point of delivery (POD) system to NHN for the latter’s data center being built at Gwangju.The IPU can handle around 9,000 independent parallel processing threats through 1,472 parallel processing c

Semiconductor packaging firm Hana Micron was in talks to buy semiconductor testing company APACT.Hana was seeking to acquire APACT to win a large, long-term order to handle semiconductor backend process work from South Korean memory giant SK Hynix, people familiar with the matter told TheElec.Those

South Korean fab equipment firm Hanmi Semiconductor said on Monday that it has completed a new factory to manufacture dual-chuck saw used in chip packaging.The factory was built at an industrial park at Incheon and will manufacture Hanmi’s dual-chuck saws, called Micro Saw by the company.The new fac

Texas Instruments was the largest analog semiconductor company in terms of revenue last year, according to market research firm IC Insights.The US chip firm recorded US$10.9 billion in sales from its analog chip business. It was a 6% increase year-on-year and was 75% of its total sales of US$14.9 bi

Mando said on Friday that it will collaborate with Smart Radar System to develop an ultra high resolution 4D imaging radar for autonomous vehicles.A 4D imaging radar measures the distance, height, depth and speed of its surrounding.This is more accurate than previous radars that just read spatial da