SK Innovation’s Seosan mid- to large-sized battery factory sales have more than doubled year-on-year. This is the result of facility capacity expansion being implemented twice in the past year. ‘Quantum jump (rapid growth)’ is likely when the Chinese and Hungary battery factories start full operatio

AMOTECH, an electronic parts maker, is expected to benefit from the wireless recharging business. This expectation stems from the fact that more smartphones and wearable products will likely apply AMOTECH's wireless charging antenna module.AMOTECH supplies '3 Combo' antenna modules to Galaxy S10 ser

AUO, The No. 1 display company in Taiwan, has confirmed that it is building a new OLED pilot line (test production). AUO has been producing OLEDs in the low-grade deposition process production lines. However, it has introduced 'printing OLED' and 'micro-LED display' with the direction of next-genera

Chinese display maker BOE surpassed LG Display in the monthly market share of the large LCD panel market based on the surface size. The display industry has reacted to this change as "happening as expected but sooner than predicted."The IHS Markets reported on the 3rd that BOE topped LG Display to b

In the first quarter, sales of most foundry companies showed a downward trend. Businesses whose main market is the 300mm foundry business particularly showed weakness.According to the Topology Research Institute (TRI) in Taiwan, foundry industry sales in the first quarter were 16.5 trillion won ($ 1

'Absorb the advantages of a pouch-type battery'Samsung SDI's battery performance for EVs is expected to improve significantly.On the 2nd, Samsung SDI began experimenting with stack (stacking) technology that stacks internal materials on a square, which is a medium and large battery manufacturing met

The material industry is working on the physical company division, mergers, and reorganization. This is to find new growth opportunities through discovering and nurturing future markets and businesses.On the 1st, LG Chem reorganized into four new business divisions. It has reorganized its basic mate

LG Innotek's Cheongju factory, which produces the main PCBs, has plummeted to 51% last year. This is far lower than the 80% of the previous years. The pressure on the Substrate Material Segment's profitability is expected to increase further.According to the LG Innotek business report on the 2nd, th

China’s ATL and BYD have initiated the mass production of Samsung's new 'Galaxy A' series battery.According to the industry on the 29th, Samsung Electronics' Wireless Division plans to reveal The Galaxy A90, a low-end smartphone, on April 10th. It is the seventh release after the 'Galaxy A10 · 20 ·

Samsung Display has recently requested quotes from a display equipment maker DMS, with which it had not traded in the past few years, for LCD device cleaning equipment. It seems that Samsung Electronics has done so as SEMES, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, has begun to liquidate the LCD equipme

According to data from the US market research firm IC Insights, China Hisilicon and Uni-SoC were ranked among the top 10 global fabs based on 2017 sales. Hisilicon positioned itself at 7th on the list, and Uni-SoC (formerly Spreadtrum RDA) came out as 10th. Hisilicon is a subsidiary of Huawei, and U

It has been confirmed that Samsung Display and BOE in China are the major suppliers of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for premium smartphone P30 series released by Huawei on the 26th. LG Display, which had been the main supplier of flexible OLED panels for Huawei smartphones, has been re

Hearing the news of passing the deliberation on the specifically requested site for the industrial complex for the construction of the Yongin semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi-do, SK Hynix responded with a "win-win fund".SK Hynix announced on the 28th that it has confirmed plans to strengthen its wi

Interflex, a manufacturer of flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs), has secured Sunny Optical and BOE as new customers. It will supply RFPCB for camera modules for Sunny Optical and organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for BOE.According to the industry on the 27th, Interflex has secured Su

SK Hynix and others have passed the Government's deliberations on the special land area of ​​the industrial complex site applied to establish a large-scale semiconductor cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do. SK Hynix has welcomed the news.The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (Ministry of Industry) s

Kim Hyung-Hwan, Director of SK Hynix's Process Base Technology, said, “We’re striving to improve productivity by applying machine learning techniques to our process lines. This is the task we’ve been focusing on recently” at the Semiconductor and Display Technology Roadmap Seminar held at El Tower i

Yoon Soo-Young, Director of Research Center (Executive Director) of LG Display, said, “Ultimately, display technology should advance toward being rollable. The key technologies required for rollable displays are metal foil replacement and transparent polyimide (PI)” at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Displa

Lee Keun-Taek, Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Research Center Equipment Technology Development Master, spoke about the "Next-generation semiconductor equipment prospect" at the seminar on semiconductor and display technology held at the El Tower, Yangjae-dong, Seoul on the 6th.Master Lee is an eq

The result of SKC KOLON PI's patent litigation with KANEKA Japan that has been going on for 10 years is expected in the first half of this year. If SKC KOLON PI loses in this lawsuit, both Kolon Industry and SKC must each pay half of the damages. KANEKA argues that SKC KOLON PI has infringed its pat

“Currently, the cover window material of foldable display is polyimide (PI). However, we’re also considering thin glass as the core material," said Kim Dong-Hwan, Executive Director of Samsung Display’s Products Research Team, at the ‘2019 Semiconductor Display Technology Roadmap Seminar’ held at Se