South Korea’s Hansol Technics will be the exclusive supplier of wireless charging modules for Samsung Electronics Galaxy S11+ that is expected to be launched in 2020, industry sources said on Nov. 29.The S11+ model will be the most premium in the lineup that is to consist of the plus type, the budge

LG Innotek on Nov. 28 said in a regulatory filing that it was shutting down its PCB business as of Dec. 31 this year on account of declining sales. It also said that parts of the PCB business would be strategically reinvested into the semiconductor board business.These measures are to streamline its

Samsung Display will be selecting the ink-jet printing equipment provider for the world’s first QD display color filter in December, according to industry sources on Nov. 26The top two competitors are US-based Kateeva that is a leading the market for small-sized OLED TFE ink-jet printing equipment a

Samsung Electronics had the biggest 21% market share in the global market in the third quarter of this year, according to market research firm CounterPoint Research on Nov. 26.Samsung took first place in 71 countries across the world, including South Korea, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia where the And

As a part of a strategy to attain a minimum sentence, Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong said in his trial on Nov. 22 that impeached president Park Geun-hye demanded the bribes the authorities are accusing Lee of offering.Lee also asked CJ Group Chairman Sohn Kyung-shik to appear as a wi

Global corporate investment into LCD displays is expected to become obscure beginning in 2022, triggering forecasts that suppliers producing LCD-related equipment will quickly have to switch their main area of business.According to market research firm IHS Markit, the final investment into the secto

LG Display’s LCD factory in Gumi of North Gyeongsang Province tasked with supplying Apple’s iPhones are showing higher operation ratios than expected after a recent disruption in Apple’s Japanese supplier JDI’s production lines.LG Display mass produces LCDs for Apple’s iPhones from its AP3 Gen-6 LTP

Hit by LED market woes punctuated by cheap Chinese products, South Korea’s Seoul Semiconductor has moved at least half of its LED chip equipment to Vietnam up to the third quarter of this year, industry sources said on Nov. 21.The company has been actively expanding its facilities in Vietnam’s Ha Na

“My hope is for us to promote mutual growth with society and the country, which was what the founding fathers of Samsung pursued,” Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong told a group of the tech company’s top executives on Nov. 19 at an ceremony commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the deat

South Korea’s Samsung SDI has confirmed that it attained the green light from Samsung Group to build its second plant in Göd of Hungary for producing EV batteries, according to industry sources on Nov. 20.The production capacity of the new facility is expected to reach about a monthly 12 million cel

Several potential South Korea clients have been testing the quality of DuPont’s quality of liquid PI for substrates, according to industry sources on Nov. 18.“Frequent testing has been done at a number of companies, but a final decision doesn’t seem to have been reached yet,” said one industry watch

South Korean supplier Kolon Industries expects another boost to its revenues as China’s Huawei Technologies has applied a double-layer of its Colorless Polyimide (CPI) film to the display cover of the Mate X for stronger durability.Industry sources told The Elec on Nov. 20 that Huawei has applied a

The global display cover market for foldable smartphones is increasingly being divided into transparent Colorless Polyimide (CPI) film and Ultra Thin Glass (UTG) due to the pros and cons of each solution, according to industry sources on Nov. 19.Screen covers in smartphones serve to protect the disp

South Korea’s Philoptics will be supplying battery-stacking equipment to Samsung SDI’s plant in Göd of Hungary, according to industry sources on Nov. 19.Philoptics expects revenues of at least 4 billion won from the equipment sales, given that related sales stood at over 30 billion won this year.The

South Korea’s ITM Semiconductor supplied battery Protection Module Packages (PMP) to Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S11, industry sources confirmed on Nov. 18.ITM took the battery cells manufactured by LG Chem in Nanjing of China, applied PMP and packaged them from its Vietnamese plant, the sources sai

LG Electronics sent 100 employees from home in South Korea, along with interpreters, to its smartphone factory in Vietnam to kickstart operations as soon as the local staff receives sufficient training, industry sources said on Nov. 18.It would take around 6 months for the employees to be sent into

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics took home the third-largest share in the global wireless earphone market with 6% in the third quarter of this year, a notch lower than Xiaomi, which jumped to second place from fourth in the previous quarter. In first place was Apple.According to data compiled by ma

LG Chem on Nov. 14 said it has requested the US International Trade Commission to make a default judgement against SK Innovation for destroying evidence and failing to comply with the commission’s digital forensics orders, which indicates contempt of court.SK Innovation, on the other hand, said the

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to churn out LPDDR5, GDDR6 DRAM and SSDs for automobiles beginning next year, with GDDR6 to be supplied to Nvidia, and the SSDs to Google. Samsung said it would also be producing High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips for autos in the near future.The products, refl

Samsung Display appears to have resumed construction of its A5 plant in Asan of South Chungcheong Province, marking a year since the construction was halted due to slow demand.As evidence, industry sources said on Nov. 13 that a cargo crane entered the grounds of the second industrial cluster in Asa