SK Hynix has become the first memory chipmaker to claim that the market has hit bottom during the first quarter.The memory chipmaker on Wednesday reported 3.4 trillion won in operating loss.But the South Korean chipmaker said the company is expecting a rebound after the second quarter.Analysts and s

LG Energy Solution and Toyota are expected to finalize their collaboration on supplying electric car batteries in the US.The South Korean battery maker already has a battery joint venture with another Japanese automobile giant Honda.Sources said if LG Energy Solution takes a similar route with Toyot

TCK is expected to widen its patent lawsuit over silicon carbide (SiC) rings to multiple companies.Park Gwang-jae, an executive vice president at TCK, or Tokai Carbon Korea, told an audience during a local conference held at Yeouido on Wednesday that there were companies that were high likely to be

RAM Tech is reviewing plans to produce electrolytes and additives used in lithium-ion batteries at its planned Dangjin facility, TheElec has learned.The company originally planned to produce just hydrogen fluoride.RAM Tech’s plan to build the facility at Dangjin has resumed after its win against the

LG Energy Solution said on Tuesday that it plans to spend 600 billion won on its battery factory at Ochang, South Korea up to next year to upgrade the facility.The South Korean battery maker said it wants to make the facility the Mother Factory for all its production facilities worldwide, or a globa

Shipment of OLED panels for IT products such as notebooks and tablets is expected to double next year thanks to Apple launching related products, according to analyst firm Omdia.Last year, 470 million units of display panels for IT products were shipped; out of these, only 9.1 million units, or 2%,

Apple has recently approved the use of a Gen 8 OLED deposition machine developed by Sunic System, TheElec has learned.The iPhone maker had previously wanted the South Korean display panel makers to use a machine developed by Japan’s Canon Tokki.Sources said however Apple’s approval wasn’t an active

EcoPro said on Monday that it has started construction of its first foreign battery factory in Hungary on Friday last week.EcoPro and affiliates will spend 382.7 billion won to build the factory at Debrecen, which will be completed next year and begin mass production in 2025.The South Korean battery

LG Innotek has acquired 77 patents in the US from the now defunct autonomous driving startup Argo AI, TheElec has learned.Argo AI, which closed its business in October last year, was an autonomous driving startup that focused on lidar sensor technologies.Lidar shoots beams of light and measures the

Hana Technology is expected to win orders for battery production equipment from SK On for the expansion of its battery facility at Seosan, South Korea, TheElec has learned.Hana Technology formed close ties with SK On when it became the vendor for tab welding and packaging equipment in 2021 to be use

The chip industry is looking for alternative materials to coolants since major producer 3M’s announcement of halting production.Coolants are used in the etching process in chip production to prevent overheating.Samsung and SK Hynix relied on 3M for the material as it accounted for 90% of the product

The global CMOS image sensor market contracted for the first time in seven years last year due to low demand for electronics and IT devices, according to Japanese analyst firm Techno Systems Research (TSR).Sony, the undisputed leader in the sector, saw its market share increase during this drop whil

Samsung SDI was collaborating with two Chinese companies to develop new stacking equipment used in battery production, TheElec has learned.There were two other South Korean companies that were also bidding for the project but they lost out to their Chinese competitors, sources said.Stacking is alrea

LG Display has begun developing a new etching technology for OLED panels that will be supplied to Apple, TheElec has learned.The technology is being prepared by the company to launch a so-called hybrid OLED panel, which uses a glass substrate like a rigid OLED panel but uses thin-film encapsulation

Lotte Energy Materials is also planning to develop and manufacture copper foils for 4680 batteries.The company said it was testing the foil, called I2SH, during its conference call for its fourth-quarter earnings.The battery type is used widely by Tesla for its electric vehicles.Solus Advanced Mater

Jusung Engineering was on the cusp of wrapping up the development of new equipment that uses its atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, CEO Hwang Chul-joo said on Thursday.Some of the kits are a transistor deposition machine, an inorganic emission display deposition machine and manufacturing equi

Samsung Electronics and LG Display have resumed their negotiations for a possible white OLED (W-OLED) supply deal, TheElec has learned.The pair are discussing LG Display potentially supplying somewhere between 200,000 to 300,000 units of W-OLED panels as the initial stock, sources said.If LG Display

Samsung is planning to adopt a new board that will allow for narrower circuit width to apply its new fan-out packaging technology for semiconductor boards.The company can use the semi-additive process to reach a circuit width of 2/2 micrometers, Samsung manager Lee Choong-sun said at the 2023 Advanc

Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan said on Tuesday that its new research center in Osan, South Korea won’t be affected by diplomatic or security issues.Idemitsu is a supplier of blue OLED material and electron transport layer to Samsung Display and LG Display for OLED panels.The Japanese company formed the rese

Samsung SDI is planning to add 3D CT scanning in its battery production, TheElec has learned.The inspection will be done in-line and the company has already adopted the system at its factory in Goed, Hungary.The equipment was supplied by SFA, which has been supplying them to battery cell makers sinc