Intel has secured the majority of high-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment that ASML is manufacturing up to the first half of next year, TheElec has learned,The Dutch fab equipment maker is manufacturing five units of the kit this year, which will all go to the US chipmaker, sources said.As ASML’

BOE has decided to use OLED deposition machines from South Korea’s Sunic System for its production of Gen 8 IT OLED panels, TheElec has learned.Rival Canon Tokki didn’t put in a bid for the order, paving the way for Sunic System to clinch the deal as the single vendor.The South Korean equipment make

SK Hynix is testing the performance of Tokyo Electron’s cryogenic etching equipment, TheElec has learned.The South Korean memory chipmaker has sent test wafers to the fab equipment maker for the tests instead of installing them in its own fab, sources said.Tokyo Electron’s new kit etches at high spe

South Korean chip assembly and test firm LB Semicon is aiming to reduce its reliance on display driver IC (DDI) for growth.LB Semicon vice president Kim Jeong-kyu told TheElec that last year was a time of reflection on what business areas it has invested in to plan where it wants to invest in the fu

Battery and display production equipment maker Philoptics said on Tuesday that it has supplied a piece of laser equipment to a chipmaker’s trial line for use in the production of a glass substrate.The equipment, called Through Glass Via (TGV), based on laser, was supplied to the potential customer l

Fab equipment maker PSK has succeeded in nullifying two out of three patents of Lam Research related to bevel etchers.South Korea’s highest court upheld an appellate court decision made last year that Lam Research's two patents were invalid.While the pair are fighting over another three patents at t

“That promise has been kept,” Li Mei, the chairperson of Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, told the parliament in December of last year.They were responding to a question on whether US chip giant Qualcomm kept its promise to invest $700 million in the country.The company, known for its Snapdragon proc

Fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron’s cryo etching equipment is using hydrogen fluoride (HF).Etching is done to NAND to form the channel holes previously used carbon fluoride (CF).But with ultra-low temperature etching required for advanced NANDs (Gen 10 and up), the use of CF is expected to dramatic

Display wet equipment maker FNS Tech is aiming to supply etching equipment for glass substrates aimed at chip packages, TheElec has learned.It is hoping to supply the kits to SKC Absolics, which is developing glass chip packages and building a dedicated factory in the state of Georgia in the US.FNS

Samsung said on Wednesday that it has manufactured a sample of a 16-stack high bandwidth memory (HBM).During a local conference hosted by The Korean Microelectronics and Packaging Society, Samsung vice president Kim Dae-woo said the tech giant manufactured the chip with hybrid bonding around a week

Battery inspection equipment maker Nsys gained Norway’s Morrow Batteries as a new customer last year, filings from the company showed on Tuesday.Nsys said it recorded 51.2 billion won in revenue last year, a jump of 22% from 2022.This was thanks to the expanded capacity in North America of the compa

Battery production equipment maker PNT said on Tuesday that it aims to record over 1 trillion won in revenue this yearThis is double its annual revenue last year of 545.4 billion won. PNT CEO JoonSup Kim said during its annual shareholders’ meeting that the company is also looking to find new busine

Display equipment maker Sunic System expects to win orders from BOE for Gen 8 OLED deposition equipment this year, its CEO said on Monday.Sunic System CEO Park Jae-gyu said during the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting that it expects a positive result in its competition to supply deposition equ

Seojin System is supplying metal molds for car body die-casting to a global auto giant, the company’s CEO told TheElec. This customer, which ranks within the top five in terms of revenue among automakers, will use it for its electric vehicles.Seojin System is also building a large die-casting factor

Samsung SDI’s major battery production equipment supplier Hana Technology has won France’s Verkor as a new customer, TheElec has learned.It is the second French company that the South Korean equipment maker has won, after Automotive Cell Company.Verkor is a battery joint venture between carmaker Ste

Fab equipment maker APTC is planning to name an ex-SK Hynix executive as an inside director.Jong-Pil Im, the former head of procurement at SK Hynix, will be named as an inside director while the company will also change its name to VM, the company said in a letter to shareholders.Im started his care

Chinese display giant BOE is planning to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Gen 8 OLED production line, B16, on March 27th, TheElec has learned.The company has sent invitations to both Canon Tokki and Sunic System, which make deposition equipment, for the event, sources said.This likely mean

Samsung Display said on Sunday that it has begun installation of equipment in its latest Gen 8.6 OLED production line to be set up at its Asan plant in South Korea.The new A6 line will be built by converting its existing L8 line, which manufactured liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, and start prod

Hanwha Precision Machinery was developing a new thermal atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment used in wafer fabrication that can deposit molybdenum, TheElec has learned.Molybdenum, compared to tungsten, has a lower resistivity and doesn’t leave fluoride residue after it is deposited.This has made

Samsung was considering applying molded underfill (MUF) in its next-generation DRAM, TheElec has learned.The tech giant used thermal compression non-conductive film (TC NCF) in its existing registered dual in-line memory module (RDIMM).But Samsung recently tested a mass reflow (MR) MUF process to 3-