The Supreme Court ruled that the Fair Trade Commission should cancel some of the 273.2 billion won penalty imposed on Qualcomm for discriminatory royalties and conditional rebates in 2009.On 11th, the Supreme Court 1st Department (Main Judge Gi-Taek Lee Supreme Court Judge) decided that the Fair Tra

Actro, a maker of smartphone camera module actuators, will complete their Plant 2 in Vietnam in the second quarter. The existing Plant 1 in Vietnam will be exclusively used for actuators, and Plant 2 will be responsible for producing actuator parts and materials. The company plans to actively respon

"Half of Samsung's ultra-large TVs sold in Korea are 8K TVs. This year, the sales target is more than double-digit revenue growth in the premium TV market (typically priced at more than $2500). "Han Jong-Hee, President of Samsung Electronics Visual Display Business, said as such at the ‘QLED 8K’ key

Suprema, a company specialized in providing biometrics solutions such as fingerprint recognition algorithms, is expected to benefit from the commercialization of FOD (Fingerprint On Display) technology.An official from Suprema on 7th said, “we expect significant sales increase in the commercializati

The blooming Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitor (MLCC) market has been going downhill due to the stagnant domestic economy in China and the decline in global smartphone sales. According to the industry on 7th, inventory growth in warehouses in the MLCC industry has increased due to slowdown in demand. Th

DB HITEK has successfully commercialized the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) foundry process.DB HIitek announced on July 7 that it would acquire a MEMS-based microphone clients and start mass production this year. Although it did not disclose names of specific clients, it is said that it has e

Last year, Chinese display panel maker, Tianma ranked No. 1 in the Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon (LTPS) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) market share of smart phones. This is the first time that a Chinese display panel maker has taken the lead in the small- and medium- size display market.Acco

"Corning’s Precision Glass Solutions (PGS) business has grown more than 30 percent compared to two years ago when it was newly established."Rustum Desai, the director of Corning PSG, stressed in an interview with The Elec on the 31st. Corning's traditionally major source of revenue is glass substrat

Entegris, a specialist in semiconductor materials in the US, and Versum Materials announced on April 29th (local time) that they will unify as a merger of equals based on the unanimous decision of each company’s board of directors. This will create a semiconductor material company worth 10 trillion

Youlchon Chemical supplied the core material for a foldable display to the Chinese Royole foldable phone 'Flex Pai'.According to the industry on May 29, Youlchon Chemical’s silver nanowire (AgNW) has been installed on the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display of Flex Pie foldable phones made b

Domestic semiconductor inspection equipment maker SEMICS will work with Spirox in Taiwan to accelerate its entry into the Chinese market. On the 29th, Spirox announced that SEMICS' inspection equipment brand OPUS has been included in its sales portfolio in China and Taiwan. Spirox is a distributor o

Domestic companies that supply parts to Apple are also expected to suffer difficulties for some time due to the sluggish iPhone sales. LG Innotek, which relies heavily on iPhone sales, is expected to be hurt significantly. According to the earnings reports for the first quarter of the fiscal year 20

ILJIN Materials, a secondary battery core material maker, will soon start construction of the Elecfoil Plant 2 in Malaysia. It is under the determination that as the electric vehicle battery market is growing, the demand for elecfoil, a core material, is solid.An ILJIN Materials official said on 28t

SK Hynix's future growth direction is defined as artificial intelligence (AI). It has been reported that Vice Chairman Park Sung-Wook, who retired from being the SK Hynix CEO at the end of last year, gathered an organization to present the company’s R&D vision for AI as a future technology & growth

"Apart from the cloud infrastructure, we expect to see the era of 'On-Device AI', which will enable AI calculations on smart phones and autonomous vehicles. When this age arrives, the AI ​​age will be truly realized."Shim Eun-Su, Director of the AI ​​& SW Research Center of Samsung Electronics Advan

Semiconductor production is a continuation of the process of taking (photolithographing), shaving (etching), washing (cleaning), and covering the material (deposition). Among them, etching is a step of cutting out a thin film put on a circuit pattern drawn by exposure or vapor deposition. As the cir

"Foundry investment in China is becoming a threat, and the pace of the threat to Korea will be accelerated."Chinese and overseas major foundry companies are rapidly expanding production facilities in China. As demand for semiconductors in China rises, foundries are increasing their 12-inch wafer pro

The United States is focusing on R&D of high-efficiency power semiconductors. The goal is to enhance the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing industries and improve energy efficiency by developing power semiconductors that will complement the disadvantages of existing silicon (Si) wafer-based s

"AI will evolve faster through heterogeneous systems, approximate computing, analog in-memory computing, and quantum computing." Myung-Hee Na, Distinguished Engineer of IBM Research, said as a keynote speaker at Semicon Korea 2019 held at COEX, Seoul on the 23rd.Engineer Na who presented on the them

"This year, Semicon Korea has the largest number of speakers, exhibitors, booths and visitors in its history. We will anticipate the dynamic changes of the semiconductor industry and present a new trend through this event," said Hyun-Dae Cho, CEO of SEMI Korea, at the press conference of Semicon Kor