Ultium Cells, the joint venture between LG Chem and General Motors, is planning adopt wireless battery management system (wBMS).Battery modules have BMS for cell management and wiring harness and bus bar to connect the control printed circuit board. Use of wBMS will lessen the need for wiring harnes

Near half of the defects in printed circuit boards (PCB) came from the surface mount technology (SMT) process, a researcher at Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI).KETI researcher Lee Jin-ho said the institute analyzed around 700 cases filed by 235 companies between 2014 to this year for th

SK Telecom’s shareholders on Thursday approved the company’s plan to split off its mobility business.The new company, T Map Mobility, will inaugurate on December 29.81.4% of shares with voting rights participated in the shareholders’ meeting. 99.98% of them approved the motion.SK Telecom CEO Park Ju

Telechips have supplied its system-on-a-chip (SoC) for head-up displays (HUD) on all the new models of Hyundai Motor’s Genesis series.The firm has previous supplied its SoC for budget model cars before but this is its first deal for the premium brand.Telechips said it supplied its HUD chip Dolphin (

Demand for advanced semiconductor package was on the rise concurrently with the demand rise for networks due to increased remote work in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, an executive at Amkor Korea said on Wednesday.Speaking at KPCAshow2020, South Korea’s largest printed circuit board tradeshow, Sung

SK Telecom on Wednesday its self-developed data center artificial intelligence (AI) chip called Sapeon X220.The carrier claimed the chip had better performance and was cheaper compared to existing GPU. Sapeon X220 had 1.5 time faster deep learning calculation time. Thanks to this, when applied to da

South Korea’s national electric utility had use telecommunication modules made by a Chinese company for a million units of remote metering devices, TheElec has learned.The use has raised criticism that China-made modules are being used for the network of sensitive electric data that is part of a cou

LG Electronics said on Wednesday its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) co-developed with Jaguar Land Rover was named the best connected technology by European automobile media jury Autobest.The IVI system won the SMARTBEST award 2020 by the jury. The system is on Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover.Autob

Telefield has clinched a 7 billion won supply deal to supply packet transport network (PTN) kit from Korea Railroad (KORAIL).The 1TB PTN kits will replace the currently used 2.5Gbps multi-service provisioning platform (MSPP) equipment.Telefield said its latest 1TB PTN offers high data transfer speed

Display panel sales in the third quarter of 2020 hit its highest in three years thanks to price rise of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.Sales hit US$30.5 billion in the third quarter, a rise of 11% from a year ago and 21% higher than the previous quarter, according to Display Supply Chain Consul

Cowin Tech said on Tuesday that it has supplied 4 billion won worth of production automation equipment to a South Korea battery maker.The deal is equivalent to 4.4% of its 2019’s full year sales of 91.1 billion won.The kits are used for the customer’s smart factory investments. Cowin Tech said it wa

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that one of its executives responsible for development of boards will win the top price at KPCAshow2020 (Int'l Electronic Circuits and Packaging Show.Kim Eung-soo, vice president at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, won the Minister Prize given by the Ministry of T

SK Materials will form a joint venture with JNC of Japan to enter the OLED materials market.The company said on Tuesday that it was acquiring 48,800 shares for 2.44 billion won of its subsidiary SK JNC, the join venture with JNC.SK Materials will first wholly own the joint venture, than offer its sh

ABOV Semiconductor has supplied its specific absorption rate (SAR) sensor to Samsung Electronics for use in the Galaxy Buds series of wireless earphones, TheElec has learned.It is ABOV’s second supply deal with the South Korean tech giant after smartphones.SAR sensor, or proximity sensor, is used to

Iljin Composites have been named the fuel tank supplier by Hyundai Motor for its hydrogen electric trucks.This is the third order that Iljin has won for hydrogen cars from the South Korea automobile giant.Iljin had supplied fuel tanks for Hyundai’s Tucson electric vehicle in 2014. It was the exclusi

ISC will produce its own 5G antenna film materials.The company’s flexible copper clad laminate (FCCL) was nominated for funding funding by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the company said on Tuesday.ISC will receive around 2 billion won in funding in the next two years.ISC will use a dir

Koem and Hana Technology have supplied core equipment to Samsung SDI necessary for the production of ultra small batteries, TheElec has learned.The kits will be used by Samsung SDI at its Cheonan factory to produce coin cell batteries.Koem has supplied the winders for the jelly roll process in which

Samsung Electronics won’t be unveiling a new Galaxy Z Flip smartphone at its upcoming Unpacked event expected in early 2021, TheElec has learned.The new model of the foldable smartphone will be unveiled after the first quarter, people familiar with the matter said. For smartphones, only the Galaxy S

Samsung’s Galaxy Note20 Ultra was the best selling 5G smartphone in September, according to market research firm CounterPoint.However, Samsung models combined accounted for 11.9% market share out of the top ten best selling 5G smartphones.Huawei models together took 16.4% market share.Huawei’s P40 P

LG Chem is simplifying its battery product line-up to increase productivity.The company was currently promoting two models of batteries __ one standard cell with a length in the 300mm range and another long cell version with a length in the 500mm range.LG Chem had previously made battery cells in a