Samsung has secured US AI chip firm Ambarella as a customer for 2-nanometer (nm) foundry, TheElec has learned.The South Korean chipmaker already secured Ambarella as a customer its 5nm process node for the latter’s advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) with self-driving feature in February.The So

Apple has recently received a glass board-based OLED panel from Japan’s JDI aimed for mixed reality devices like its Vision Pro, TheElec has learned.The panel has a resolution of approximately 1,500 pixels per inch (ppi), sources said, so it is likely aimed at a budget model MR device.Apple’s Vision

Nanotech Energy is planning to manufacture its 2170 cylindrical battery using a South Korean contract manufacturer, TheElec has learned.The South Korean manufacturer is expected to supply 3GWh worth of the batteries annually starting in 2026, sources said.The batteries are for energy storage systems

Samsung SDI said on Tuesday that it plans to sell its polarizing film business to Wuxi Hengxin Optoelectronic Materials for 1.12 trillion won.The deal includes all of the South Korean battery maker’s shares in its subsidiary in Wuxi, China as well as its domestic units related to polarizing film in

Samsung SDI was converting one of its battery pack factories in the US to meet demand for batteries from the energy storage system (ESS) market, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker acquired the facility in Michigan from Magna Steyr in 2025.The facility houses two battery pack factorie

The memory bosses of Samsung and SK Hynix shared their respective company’s different strategies concerning high-bandwidth memory (HBM) at an industry show in Taiwan on Wednesday.Samsung Memory Business President Lee Jung-Bae and SK Hynix President Juseon Kim made keynote addresses on Wednesday, sha

SK Hynix is planning to convert one of its main DRAM production lines to manufacture high-bandwidth memory (HBM) instead due to high demand for the latter memory type, TheElec has learned.The line, M10F, located at its Icheon facility in South Korea, is already going through changes for it to manufa

NES Materials, a subsidiary of Namhae Chemical, has begun supplying Samsung with high-purity sulfuric acid (H2SO4) since last month, TheElec has learned.The material is used in cleaning processes during chip production. NES Materials was formed in 2021 and is a joint venture of Namhae Chemical, ENF,

Coasia Semi Korea, the chip design house subsidiary of Kosdaq-listed Coasia, is taking part in Canadian AI NPU startup Tenstorrent’s development project for their next-generation AI chip, TheElec has learned.Tenstorrent is led by CEO Jim Keller, the legendary microprocessor engineer known for his wo

Woowon Technology developed a new equipment that can stack the cathode, anode and separator for prismatic batteries in 0.3 seconds, the company said on Monday.The previous fastest stacking equipment was those for pouch batteries which performed the task in 0.35 seconds.Woowon Technology said its equ

Samsung was testing gas cluster beam (GCB) equipment supplied by fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron to improve its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) process, TheElec has learned.The equipment, called Acrevia, is used to shape local areas of the wafer using ion beams.Tokyo Electron previously said the equipm

SK Hynix said on Thursday that it has developed a Gen 6 10-nanometer (nm) (1c) 16Gb DDR5 DRAM.The company becomes the first memory maker to do so, ahead of domestic rival Samsung.The pair has had a back and forth between them as Samsung in May became the first memory maker to start manufacturing Gen

The battery joint venture between Samsung SDI and General Motors will only manufacture prismatic batteries, TheElec has learned.The pair originally planned to manufacture prismatic batteries from three production line and cylindrical batteries from three production lines at their factory in Indiana,

TSE is supplying probe cards for use in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) engineering to multiple memory makers.The company was manufacturing the probe cards for, besides HBM, DRAM, and NAND as well, TSE President Yang Douglas Jung-il said during a seminar held at Hanyang University on Wednesday.The probe

South Korean battery equipment maker CIS said on Tuesday that it will merge with affiliate SNU Precision.The battery equipment maker will hold a shareholders meeting for the decision on October 29. CIS and SNU Precision will merge on a 1:0.1994714 ratio on December 1.CIS is a battery equipment maker

Lotte Energy Materials said on Tuesday that is has developed a nickel-plated copper foil that can be used in solid-state battery.The company didn’t reveal how thick the nickel overlay over the foil was.Copper foils are used as current collectors on battery anodes. As solid-state batteries don’t use

SK Hynix plans to apply chiplet technology to its memory controller within the next three years to better control cost, a senior executive said.The memory maker currently uses TSMC as the foundry for its controllers, SK Hynix executive vice president Moon Ki-ill said during a seminar held at Hanyang

LG Display acquired samples of black pixel define layer (PDL) from Japan’s Mitsubishi and other companies during the second quarter, TheElec has learned.The material is crucial for the application of color filter on encapsulation (CoE) on foldable panels to make them thinner, sources said.CoE replac

Sapien Semiconductors said on Monday it has signed a deal with a Silicon Valley-based tech giant to develop LED on silicon (LEDoS) chip for application in augmented reality (AR) glass.The deal is worth 4.8 billion won and the contract expires in October next year, the company said.The chip will come

LG Innotek will be the sole supplier of folded zoom modules for the initial stock of iPhone 16 launching later this year, TheElec has learned.The South Korean component maker was also the sole supplier for the initial stock of iPhone 15 last year.Folded zoom bends light into prisms and sends them to