The US and China will likely lead investments into 5G network in 2021. The US has wrapped up its mid-band auction, grossing US$80.9 billion this month. China was the leader in 5G investment in 2020 and will likely continue its pace this year.Xiao Yaqing, the minister of China’s Ministry of Industry

Samsung Display said on Tuesday that it has supplied organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels that consumes 16% less power than predecessors for Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone.The display panel company said it has applied new organic material with improve luminous efficiency.The

Samsung Electronics is estimating that it will ship around 26 million units of its Galaxy S21 smartphone series this year, TheElec has learned.The figure is conservative as its Galaxy S20 series sold that much in 2020, which was considered underwhelming by the company.Samsung set the conservative fi

iPhone 12 5G serviced by carrier LG Uplus hit an average download speed of 625.03Mbps in Seoul in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to speed testing firm Ookla.SK Telecom offered 500.31Mbps and KT 393.95Mbps.This is despite LG Uplus having only 80% of the bandwidth for 5G compared to SK Telecom

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that its 5G network equipment has received certificate from Common Criteria.Its 5G gNB, AU and DU were inspected by Canadian security firm Lightship, and received the Protection Profile (PP) certificate in November.Samsung said it aimed for the certificate as its n

The South Korean government and local companies together will spend 300 billion won for ten years to foster talents in system semiconductors, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Thursday.They will also create system semiconductor design majors in local universities.By 2022,

Intel will be manufacturing 7-nanometer (nm) CPU on its own starting in 2023, company CEO Bob Swan said at its fourth quarter conference call on Thursday.The company has been increasing research and development spending to develop 7nm since the second half of 2020, Swan said, and it was confident th

Samsung Display on Tuesday has filed a second patent lawsuit against JOLED in the US, claiming the latter violated its patents.Intellectual Keystone Technology (IKT), a US subsidiary of Samsung Display, filed the suit to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, against JOLED and Asus

ASML is planning to ship 40 extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems this year, the company said at its fourth quarter conference call.Last year, the company shipped 31 EUV systems for sales of 4.5 billion euros, CEO Peter Wennink said.ASML is expecting sales of 5.8 billion euros from EUV systems in 2021,

Major TV makers have shown off their new MiniLED TV line-up for 2021 and intense competition is expected in key markets.MiniLED TV is a liquid crystal display (LCD) TV that uses MiniLEDs instead of LEDs for backlighting.MiniLED uses LED chips in the 100 to 200 micrometer size range, much smaller tha

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Wednesday that it was supplying a 0.65mm thin 3-terminal multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) to a global smartphone maker.The company is likely supply the capacitors for the Galaxy S21 series of smartphones launched by Samsung Electronics this month.The new MLCC is

The charging case of Samsung Electronics’ wireless earphones, the Galaxy Buds Pro, will be powered by EVE Energy’s battery, TheElec has learned.The Chinese company is supplying 472mAh small polymer battery. The same battery was previous used for Samsung’s wearable devices such as the Galaxy Watch.Fe

Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it will globally launch its consumer solid-state drive (SSD), 870 EVO.The company said 870 EVO was aimed at PC users looking for an upgraded PC experience as well as contents creators and IT professionals.The SSD use 128-layer V-NAND and the latest MKX cont

US carrier T-Mobile has excluded Samsung Electronics from its 5G network rollout, TheElec has learned.T-Mobile has secured 2.5GHz spectrum for 5G mid-band from its merger with Sprint.Samsung was a supplier of 5G equipment for Sprint’s 2.5GHz spectrum, but the Korean firm failed to clinch a similar d

Semiconductor package and test company Winpac begin uMCP packaging for SK Hynix, TheElec has said on Tuesday.uMCP combines mobile DRAM (LPDDR) and NAND Flash (in this case Universal Flash Storage) into one product. It has faster than eMCP and consumes less power. The chip is used in smart devices su

SPIE Advanced Lithography Digital Forum will be held online next month from February 22 to 26.SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will host the event that will showcase extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is growing ever more important in semiconductor product

US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) C-band auction closed on Friday as the highest-grossing spectrum auction ever held in the country. Gross proceeds of Auction 107 hit US$80.9 billion, near double the previous record of US$44.9 billion of Auction 97(AWS-3). The auction made available licen

Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it was launching its location tracking accessory Galaxy SmartTag in South Korea.The tag can be connected via a key ring to Galaxy devices as well as pets and keys.Users can use the SmartThings Find feature on the SmartThings app to register the tag and locate

Auros Technology said on Friday that it was expecting new sales from Chinese semiconductor companies starting this year.It is also planning to form a research center at Silicon Valley in the US to recruit talents, the company said.Auros manufacturers semiconductor overlay measurement equipment. It l

Samsung leader Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to a two-and-a-half year jail term on Monday by a court in Seoul for bribing South Korea’s former President.Lee was taken into custody following the verdict by the Seoul High Court.The Samsung leader was firmed jailed in 2017 and sentenced to a five year pri