Amid the booming market of the world's No. 1 MLCC company, Murata of Japan began construction this month to extend its production line.Japan's Murata recently announced that it will begin construction of additional MLCCs starting this month in Ushi, Jiangsu, China. It is going to invest a total of 1

SEMES, Korea’s leading semiconductor and display Equipment manufacturer announced on 21 Nov, the receiving of IR52 Jang Young-Sil Award for its Wafer Wet Clean / PR Strip Equipment ‘Lotus’.Jang Young-Sil Ward was established in 1991 by the Ministry of Science and Technology Information, and Korea In

Next year is expected to be the era of a complete zero-bezel display without a notch.Following in the footsteps of Samsung Display, LG Display is also developing organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels for smartphone use which will be available for notch-less design. The current design of the not

The merger between Infineon Korea and Infineon Power Semitech has ended on a sour note.The German semiconductor company, Infineon has restructured its domestic subsidiaries. Infineon Technologies Korea Co. Ltd. (Infineon Korea) and Infineon Technologies Power Semitech Co. Ltd. (Infineon Power Semite

China Star (CSOT). announced that it has begun the mass production of the 10.5th generation liquid crystal display (LCD) plant (T6) in Shenzhen on the 14th. It is the second time since BOE started operating the first 10.5G LCD plant (B9) in Hefei in December last year. T6 has a production capacity o

SK Hynix produces a 2-layer stacked CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) at its 300mm wafer plant. This is SK Hynix’s first time to produce a stacked CIS.According to a industry report on the 25th, SK Hynix plans to mass-produce a 16 megapixel, 2-layer stacked CIS using the Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology i

Interest in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and hyper fluorescence, which are referred to as the next generation of luminescence materials for an organic light-emitting diode, is increasing.Recently the display industry has been expanding the market to include large-sized OLEDs in ea

LG Display is working on developing foldable devices with Chinese partners in smartphone and PC. LG Electronics, its parent company, has immediately entered into an alliance with Chinese vendors even without carrying out any project on foldable devices. This is in contrast to Samsung Display’s colla

It has been reported that Samsung Display has decided in their new equipment purchasing policy to exclude equipment produced by Toptec, due to suspicions that the company has leaked technology in the past.According to the industry on the 20th, Samsung Display plans to change the procurement of '3D l

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are at a war of nerves over the announcement of development of next-generation DRAM, subtly.SK Hynix officially announced on 15 Nov that it has developed “world’s first” DDR5 DRAM for Servers and PCs (Reference: SK Hynix Opens A New Era of Next-Generation DDR5 DRAM).

The operation rate of Samsung Display’s OLED production line, which had fallen has risen sharply. This is due to Chinese smartphone manufacturers on OLED adoption and Apple's launch of new iPhone products. However, it has yet to recover from the first half of last year.According to the data from mar

Samsung Electronics plans to diversify its supply of photoresists (PR), one of the core materials used in the 3D NAND flash production process. It means the exclusive supply system will be no longer valid for use by Dongjin Semichem, which has been in operation for more than five years.According to

The equipment industries are tightening their belts getting prepared for next year, as condition of the semiconductor markets tend to be changing despite a growing trend in recent years.Equipment businesses like that of displays, especially Samsung Display, have been suffering from falling sales. As

It is predicted that Samsung Electronics’ new Galaxy S10 (tentative name) to be released early next year will be built genuinely bezeless with Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) panel without any borders.Two fine holes at the top of the screen will be facilitated for camera and sensor. This is diff

An outline of the Apple’s CPU for PC has been revealed.It has been confirmed that OSAT companies in the U.S. and China, which have their own branches in South Korea, are developing the new package. It is predicted that Apple’s own CPU will be used for MacPC by 2020. Apple is already using its own ch

LG Chem plans to enter the core materials market for foldable OLED display panels with a scalable investment.Transparent Polyimide cover window, Polarizing Plate and Optically Clear Adhesive (OCA) for tape are produced directly from PI varnish, also a raw material for a substrate of flexible OLED pa

Do Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron all have the same 1y DRAM ? By looking at the results, it does not seem so. Micron and SK Hynix both introduced their second-generation 10-nano (1y) DRAM on the 12th of Nov. However, Samsung Electronics on the other hand already announced the mass producti

It is confirmed that many of the semiconductor engineers on the move to SK Hynix are sued by former employers for provisional injunction. Happened just lately, when SK Hynix increased number of its experienced positions aggressively. Attention is drawn on whether a change in the company’s strategy o

It is predicted that reduced shipments of smartphones will lead to reduced size of small and medium display markets.According to IHS Markit, a market research company, the global shipments of display panels for mobile phones (feature phones and smartphones) is estimated to be 1.95 billion. That said

Samsung Display is planning to expand its supplier of bezeless Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) equipment used on Galaxy S10 (tentative name) by implementing additional A4 production line from its current A3 in Asan, South Chungcheong Province.According to some industry insiders on 7 Nov, Samsung