Hanwha Precision Machinery expects its back-end fab equipment business unit to turn to the black next year.Parent company Hanwha Aerospace also said in its filings to financial authorities earlier this month that Hanwha Precision Machinery’s front-end and back-end fab equipment business units togeth

Doosan Tesna will secure chip packaging capability for synergy with its existing chip testing business, Doosan Group said.The goal is to foster the company into am integrated outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company, the group said.This likely means its wants to offer wafer test, packaging

Wireless security solution provider Gitsn is planning to list on Kosdaq on the back of its projected high growth rate this year.Gitsn CEO Han Dong-jin said the company expects an 80% year-on-year growth in revenue from strong sales of its wireless security solutions.Its revenue from sales of wireles

KCTech’s supercritical fluid cleaner was being evaluated by SK Hynix for use in its DRAM production line, TheElec has learned.SK Hynix has been procuring this equipment from Tokyo Electron, so if KCTech passes the evaluation it will become a secondary supplier, sources said.KCTech is expected to pas

LG Energy Solution is planning to build its most advanced battery production line yet at its Ochang factory, TheElec has learned.It is its seventh pilot line at the factory and will be completed in October.The line will use smart factory technologies and manufacture pouch batteries, sources said.Tho

Fab equipment maker Neosem has supplied new inspection equipment for use in Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 memory production, becoming the first company to do so, TheElec has learned.The customer is Samsung and the equipment is used to determine whether memory modules that support CXL 2.0 are operat

Samsung is applying molybdenum in the metalization process of its Gen 9 V-NAND, TheElec has learned.The company has brought in five units of Mo deposition machines from Lam Research for the process, sources said.The South Korean tech giant is planning to bring in twenty additional units next year, t

Hanmi Semiconductor has effectively lost in a patent lawsuit it filed against rival Genesem over patents related to packaging equipment.In fact, it lost more than it bargained for as the court nullified its patents.Hanmi Semiconductor filed the suit against Genesem to the Seoul Central District Cour

BH will be supplying the flexible printed circuit boards (FPCB) for the camera modules on Samsung’s new foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The board maker becomes the third supplier of the boards to Samsung after NewFlex and SI Flex.BH has so far focused on FPCB for displays but the new deal means

South Korea’s export of blank masks used in chip production has jumped 46% in May from a year ago, according to government data.Exports hit US$2.56 million in May, with China accounting for US$1.93 million and accounting for 75.3% of the total, according to data from the Korea Trade Statistics Promo

This week, multiple acquaintances messaged me to ask whether a certain report was true.The report, made in South Korean media, claimed that Nvidia asked Samsung to change the design of their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and that this would cause further delays in supply. Coincidentally, Samsung’s sha

South Korean memory chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to spply hybrid bonding in their upcoming 3D DRAM.SK Hynix said during the International Memory Workshop 2024 conference held in Seoul last week that it will apply wafer bonding in its 3D DRAM production.Wafer bonding is also called hy

Ultra-thin glass (UTG) maker Dowoo Insys is planning to list on the Korean Exchange next year.Company CEO Lee Jae-gyu, told TheElec on Friday that Dowoo Insys will file for the preliminary review to go public to financial authorities in the summer.Kiwoom Securities is underwriting the deal. The secu

Samsung Foundry is expected to launch 1.4-nanometer (nm) process, back side power delivery network (BSPDN), and silicon photonics in 2027.During its Samsung Foundry Forum held in San Jose on Wednesday, the South Korean tech giant’s contract chip production business unit announced its technology road

Samsung Display was looking for a new contractor to handle the back-end etching work for its rigid and hybrid OLED panels, TheElec has learned.This was because one of its contractors for this work, Soulbrain, is planning to exit the business, sources said.Samsung Display currently manufactures rigid

Chinese display panel maker CSOT has sent requests for quotations to South Korean equipment makers for Gen 6 OLED production equipment, TheElec has learned.Multiple equipment makers have received the request and are reviewing the profitability of assembling the kits, sources said.CSOT will decide ne

The commercialization of glass substrates will threaten the dominance of advanced packaging technology currently in use such as chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) of TSMC, according a university professor.Glass substrates’ target market was clear and they will be used in AI and server semiconductors

LG Display has received approval from customer Apple to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16 Pro Max, TheElec has learned.This is ahead of Samsung Display, which has never happened before, sources said.Last month, LG Display and Samsung Display both received approval to supply OLED panels for iPhone 16

The global semiconductor market is expected to grow 16% on-year this year, according to analyst firm World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).The market will grow to be worth US$611.2 billion this year, WSTS noted. Its growth projection also increased from the 13.1% it gave late last year.Demand

Precursor producer Eco&&Dream is aiming to turn a profit this year and hit 100 billion won in revenue.The company is also aiming to expand its annual precursor production capacity to 100,000 metric tonnes, its research head Kim Tae-min told TheElec.Eco&Dream saw its revenue for the first quarter sur