Samsung has begun production of key components it will use on its upcoming foldable phones, TheElec has learned.The company has placed orders enough to manufacture a total of mid- to late-10 million units for Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4, sources said.The assembly of the complete production w

Murata Manufacturing and Taiyo Yuden expect revenue from multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) to grow by over 10% this year.The Japanese companies said revenues from this fiscal year __ from April 2022 to March 2023 __ are expected to increase by 11% and 14%, respectively, this year.Meanwhile, comp

LG Display said on Thursday that it saw a significant year-on-year profit drop during the first quarter due to lowered panel shipment and price drops.The company said it recorded 6.47 trillion won in revenue and 38.3 billion won in operating income, a drop of 6% and 93%, respectively.The company sai

South Korean companies Kolon Industries and SKC will be supplying polyimide (PI) films to Taiwan’s Asus for the latter’s foldable notebook, TheElec has learned.The films will be used as cover windows __ protective films __ for the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, which was unveiled earlier this year by the PC

Coasia Optics will be supplying lens modules to Samsung for use on the Galaxy S smartphone series, TheElec has learned.The lens modules will be used for the front cameras on Galaxy S smartphones series, starting with the recently launched Galaxy S22 series, sources said. Coasia Optics’ affiliate Coa

SK IE Technology will be supplying the transparent polyimide film, which is used as the cover windows of screens, on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) foldable notebook.The company will be the exclusive supplier of the films and had won the order by offering them at half the price of rival bids, sources said.S

Apple is likely to use its long-time camera module supplier LG Innotek and parts maker Jahwa Electronics for the procurement of folded zoom camera modules.Earlier this week, South Korean camera module parts maker Jahwa Electronics announced that it will spend 191 billion won on a new optical image s

Jahwa Electronics said on Wednesday that it plans to spend 191 billion won on building facilities to produce new models.The company currently supplies optical image stabilization (OIS) actuators to Samsung for the Galaxy S22 series smartphones.The size of the spending plan, which will last until Mar

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Tuesday that it has developed 13 new multi-layer ceramic capacitors that can withstand 150 Celsius heat.The MLCCs are designed for automotive applications and will be supplied to auto-parts makers, the company said. They range in size from 3225 (3.2x2.5mm) to 1608.C

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker Isu Petasys said on Friday that it will be spending 54 billion won to expand its network PCB production capacity.The company will be building a fourth factory at its plant in Daegu, which will be manufacturing multi-layer boards (MLB) like the other three factories

Haesung Optics will be supplying a component to Samsung Electronics needed to make the optical image stabilization (OIS) actuator used smartphone camera modules, TheElec has learned. The component maker will be supplying a component called sub, which will be provided to another camera module supplie

Samsung is expected to continue procuring most of the hinges it will use for its upcoming foldable phones from South Korean vendor KH Vatec, TheElec has learned.The hinges are used to connect either side of the folding display panels. It also protects them from external shock.KH Vatec had been the e

South Korea’s printed circuit board (PCB) market is expected to grow 7% this year from 2021 led by high demand for chip boards, according to the Korea Printed Circuit Association (KPCA).The local PCB market is expected to be worth 16.255 trillion won, the association said.Revenue from chip board wil

Printed circuit board (PCB) maker BH said on Monday that it will acquire LG Electronics’ in-car handset wireless charging business unit.BH will be forming a new subsidiary called BH EVS that will acquire all sales rights from the business unit for 136.7 billion won. The acquisition will be completed

Samsung Electro-Mechanics said on Monday that it will spend 300 billion won to expand its flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) factory at Busan.The new spending plan comes atop the 1.3 trillion won investment the company announced earlier in December to build an FC-BGA facility at its plant in Vietnam

Samsung Electro-Mechanics was considering expanding its production capacity for flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), its CEO said on Wednesday.Company CEO Chang Duck-hyun said during Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ annual shareholders’ meeting that the company was in talks with an unspecified customer to

OLED material startup Lordin said on Tuesday that it has filed a patent related to blue OLED technology with high light emission efficiency.Company CEO Oh Hyoung-yun said the technology offers high-efficiency and a longer life span for the blue OLED materials used in OLED panels.Lordin was aiming to

Display glass processing firm Kglass said it can now support processing for ultra-thin glass (UTG) up to 20-inch in size.UTG are used as cover windows in foldable displays. Kglass said it has built a processing system for the glasses at its plant in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province.The plant can

South Korean printed circuit board (PCB) makers Korea Circuit and DAP are expected to supply a similar amount of smartphone boards to Samsung this year as they did in 2021.The pair are each expected to supply late-20% of the total boards that Samsung plans to procure for its smartphones this year, p

The earnings of parts suppliers to Samsung’s smartphone operations recovered in 2021 compared to the year prior, their earnings reports show.The earnings of 17 major suppliers showed year-on-year increases in operating profit, including those of Partron (88%), BH (109%), Innox Advanced Materials (12