The government will delay announcement the results of its investigation into the fires at Energy Storage Systems (ESS) over the past three years to 2020 as the local battery industry suffering from a lack of ESS orders.Industry sources said on Dec. 26 that the Commerce Ministry has officially postpo

Samsung Display has established its first foldable OLED module production line in Vietnam after seeing the potential of the foldable OLED panels that it began mass producing this year, according to industry sources on Dec. 23.The display maker had mass produced the OLED panels fitted in the Galaxy F

From 2017 to 2019, revenues from Japanese display equipment makers took up half of the market, according to market research firm IHS Markit on Dec. 13. South Korean equipment makers, on the other hand, accounted for just 25%.During these three years, the display equipment market was worth KRW 63.6 t

Samsung Electronics had the biggest 21% market share in the global market in the third quarter of this year, according to market research firm CounterPoint Research on Nov. 26.Samsung took first place in 71 countries across the world, including South Korea, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia where the And

Several potential South Korea clients have been testing the quality of DuPont’s quality of liquid PI for substrates, according to industry sources on Nov. 18.“Frequent testing has been done at a number of companies, but a final decision doesn’t seem to have been reached yet,” said one industry watch

LG Chem on Nov. 14 said it has requested the US International Trade Commission to make a default judgement against SK Innovation for destroying evidence and failing to comply with the commission’s digital forensics orders, which indicates contempt of court.SK Innovation, on the other hand, said the

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to churn out LPDDR5, GDDR6 DRAM and SSDs for automobiles beginning next year, with GDDR6 to be supplied to Nvidia, and the SSDs to Google. Samsung said it would also be producing High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips for autos in the near future.The products, refl

South Korea’s Samsung Display is out to build an ecosystem in Taiwan, the home of IT industries, to expand the market for laptop OLED panels, the company said at the Samsung OLED forum in Taiwan on Nov. 7.“Samsung Display’s OLED boasts qualities such as 압도적인 picture quality and high energy efficienc

LG affiliate Silicon Works is upping the portion of China in its portfolio in a bid to survive amid hardcore restructuring at LG Display’s LCD business, according to industry sources on Oct. 6.Silicon Works’ primary cash cow so far has been selling display driver ICs (DDI) for large-sized LCD panels

The Korea Display Industry Association (KDIA) is actively discussing with suppliers on taking a collective stand against Foxconn’s delay in payment for the equipment at its Gen-10.5 LCD production lines in Guangzhou, according to industry sources on Nov. 6.“Unlike with Chinese display industry playe

International Electrotechnical Commission TC 64 Chair Jacques Peronnet said at a press conference on Oct. 29 that new electrical installation standards adopted in Korea can help prevent fires at Energy Storage Systems.Peronnet is concurrently director of building & IT business standardization at Sch

The South Korean government and top semiconductor manufacturers in Korea agreed on Oct. 24 during a ceremony celebrating the 12th Semiconductor Day to create a 100 billion won fund for fostering fabless chip companies.Samsung Electronics’ CEO Jung Eun-seung, SK hynix CEO Lee Seok-hee and Korea Growt

LG Chem has slipped further away from achieving its annual 10 trillion won revenue goal for its battery business, as its accumulated sales up until the third quarter of this year fell short of 6 trillion won.The biggest factors were the disruption in mass production plans at its EV battery plant in

US-based Tesla appears to be gearing up to produce its own EV batteries. South Korean battery equipment maker Daebo Magnetic will most likely be filling the orders for the electro magnetic filters (EMF) needed for production.Industry sources told The Elec on Oct. 21 that Daebo seems ready to sign a

LG Chem CEO Kim Jong-hyun called for EV battery makers to turn the business into a sustainable one by constantly considering environmental problems.“Recycling EV batteries is one key way to maintain sustainability,” said Kim during a keynote speech on Oct. 17 at the Battery Conference 2019.EV batter

Samsung Electronics will most likely be launching a smartphone with no camera holes on the display in 2020, according to industry sources on Oct. 16.The display for this model will be the OLED panels from Samsung Display using the Under Display Camera technology. The UDC equipment is called the HIAA

Hanatec, one of Samsung Electronics’ design houses for its foundry business, will be merging with domestic rival Silicon Harmony, with the move taking effect as of Nov. 1 this year.Hanatec’s workforce is composed of 55 employees, while Silicon Harmony has 23. Both have annual sales of around 7 billi

The government will be launching another round of investigations into the string of fires at energy storage systems this past year. In June, it had issued set of measures on the cause behind the fires and to prevent similar accidents, but three more fires occurred over the past month.On Monday, the

Samsung Electronics’ foundry division appears to be preparing to produce RISC-V-based core chips in a joint effort with SemiFive, marking the first time for the department to apply a non-ARM core IP to its procedures.On Oct. 11, SemiFive head Cho Myung-hyun said that the firm is developing chip desi

South Korean tech equipment firm Wonik IPS spent 51.3 billion won on R&D in the first half of this year. This was more than the 40.6 billion won of operating profit it raised during the same period.The R&D expenditure accounted for 15.5% of the company’s sales, which was higher than the average 14%