Samsung unveiled its latest flagship smartphone series Galaxy S22 with upped camera features as well as one model housing the S Pen stylus like the Galaxy Note.Galaxy S22 series comes in three models: Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy S22 Plus and Galaxy S22.Galaxy S22 Ultra comes with a dedicated port for t

The global lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery market is expected to be worth US$15.2 billion by 2029 with 200GWh worth of batteries to be manufactured, according to analyst firm QYResearch.QYResearch CEO Yoon Sung-bin also said LFP batteries are expected to replace more and more of the lithium man

Mplus, a battery production equipment supplier to SK On, will also develop equipment for its main customer’s rival LG Energy Solution, TheElec has learned.The company participated in a recent event hosted by LG Energy Solution at its factory in Ochang.LG Energy Solution held the event to showcase it

Samsung’s automotive component subsidiary Harman acquired German augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) head-up display (HUD) software firm Apostera.Harman said it will apply the software by the startup, founded in 2017, to its digital cockpit solutions.According to the Samsung subsidiary, Ap

Lam Research on Thursday announced new etching solutions that can be used for gate-all-around (GAA) transistor structures in wafers.The solutions were already in use by Samsung for its 3-nanometer (nm) GAA process, the company said.They were being manufactured by Lam Research Manufacturing Korea, th

Samsung SDI has begun applying a new process to increase its yield rate in battery production.The South Korean battery maker has begun using laser equipment to clean the cans used in prismatic batteries, sources said.In prismatic batteries, materials such as cathode, anode and separators are deposit

Samsung is planning to manufacture components enough to produce 30 million units of its Galaxy S22 series of smartphones which will be unveiled on Wednesday this week, TheElec has learned.This is 20% higher than the initial components it manufactured for the Galaxy S21 series last year.The component

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display have hit a roadblock in their negotiations over the price of quantum-dot (QD)-OLED panels that the latter originally planned to supply to the South Korean electronics giant for their TVs, TheElec has learned.The negotiations, which started late last year, have

South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery maker LG Energy Solution said it had recorded 17.85 trillion won in revenue and 768.5 billion won in operating income during the entire year of 2022.Revenue increased 42% year-on-year, while the company recorded its first annual operating income after years

LG Display was currently shifting some of its OLED production equipment at its E5 line at its plant in Gumi, South Korea to its plant in Paju, TheElec has learned.The company was transferring some of its tensioners __ used in depositing OLED materials on the panel during production __ to its E6-4 li

Dawonsys said on Tuesday that it was issuing 65.6 billion won worth of new shares.Around 3 million regular shares will be allotted in March 14, the company said. The new shares will begin trading in May.The company said it plans to use the fund to fuel its new semiconductor and display equipment bus

More TV panels will be manufactured at Gen 10 substrate and above lines this year, according to analyst firm Omdia.The firm expects TV panels made at Gen 10 (2880x3130mm) and Gen 10.5 (2940x3370mm) lines to account for 31.8% of the total TV panels __ including both liquid crystal displays (LCD) and

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has collaborated with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information to develop a simulation platform to evaluate OLED materials.Called Sync-OLED, the platform can simulate the basic characteristics of OLED materials and movements of electrons.It was

LG Group had refused to hand over its chip development team to LX Group, which had split off from the former last year, TheElec has learned.LX Semicon, formerly called Silicon Works, had made a request during the second half of 2021 to LG Electronics to transfer its personnel and asset under the Sys

LG Chem and Korea Zinc are planning to form a joint venture that will produce battery materials during the first quarter this year, TheElec has learned.The joint venture will produce precursor used in the production of battery cathode, sources said.The venture may also manufacture nickel matte, the

Chip testing equipment maker Hprobe said on Friday that it has won an order for its wafer-level magnetic tester from South Korea’s largest chip firm.The French company offers various testing equipment for semiconductor devices.The firm’s major product is its IBEX platform, used to test MRAM, is comp

Display equipment maker Philoptics said that it has named a new CEO for its battery equipment making subsidiary Philenergy.Kim Kwang-il, who had been a president at Philoptics since 2018, was named to the top post. He previously worked at Samsung SDI for 21 years. Philoptics said it expects Kim to s

South Korean fab equipment maker Auros Technology has won an order from a Chinese memory chip maker to supply overlay measurement equipment, TheElec has learned.Auros Technology passed the Chinese company’s demo test late last year, sources said.The South Korean company has begun supplying the kits

Samsung Display is unlikely to decide within the first half of this year on whether it will spend more to expand its production capacity of quantum dot (QD)-OLED panels this year, TheElec has learned.It is unlikely that the company will hold an investment review on QD-OLED during the first half of 2

LG Energy Solution said it will procure lithium hydroxide from Germany’s Vulcan Energy.Lithium hydroxide can be easily synthesized with nickel and is used to make electric vehicle batteries.The South Korean battery maker said it plans to procure 45,000 metric tonnes of the material from Vulcan Energ