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-

YEST said on Monday that it has developed a new technology that can increase the productivity of the annealing process during wafer fabrication.A high-pressure annealing equipment that uses the technology can process 125 wafers at one time, up from 75 of previous equipment.YEST said global chipmaker

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has brought down the line width/line spacing (L/S) of its chip package down to 5 micrometers.This was to respond to an increase in I/Os of chips, Samsung Electro-Mechanics group head Woo Seok Yang said during the SMT&PCB Tech Conference hosted by TheElec in Suwon, south of

LSE was in the middle of installing scrubbers for through silicon via (TSV) for high bandwidth memory for SK Hynix, TheElec has learned.The fab equipment maker has provided two units to the chipmaker’s fab at Cheongju, called Cheongju Campus.Electronics parts maker LTC acquired Mujin Electronics’s f

Lam Research has changed the president of its South Korean operation amid stiff challenges ahead __ from rival Tokyo Electron’s aggressive push to its ongoing patent lawsuits with PSK.The fab equipment maker named Park Joon-hong as the new president of Lam Research Korea on January 30. The new presi

Samsung Display will install its first evaporator for use at Gen 8 OLED production next month, TheElec has learned.The machine was made by Japan’s Canon Tokki and will be used to manufacture Gen 8 OLED, which the South Korean display panel maker aims to use to make OLED panels aimed at PCs and table

Fab equipment maker Tokyo Electron said it will begin shipping its new etching equipment under development next year.The new etcher is being developed to etch the channel holes on NAND chips with over 400 layers.It is a big move by Tokyo Electron as NAND channel hole etchers are currently only being

Samsung and SK Hynix are expanding their use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography as they transition to the production of more and more advanced DRAM.This means demand for high-purity carbon dioxide (CO2) gases is also expected to increase. These gases are used to make the light source used in E

Semiconductor inspection component maker TSE has succeeded in developing a key component of probe cards used to inspect high-end computing chips.The company said on Monday that it has developed a space transformer organic-multi-layer (STO-ML) with 50-micrometer circuit width that can applied to vert

Samsung SDI is considering using equipment supplied by Chinese vendors to form its lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery production line, TheElec has learned.The South Korean battery maker recently hosted a closed-door conference at its plant in Cheonan, South Korea, explaining its plan to potential

LG Energy Solution is attempting to outbid sister company LG Electronics for equipment orders that will be placed by its joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group, TheElec has learned.LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group’s battery-making joint venture in the US is expected to start placing orders

Samsung has ordered dozens of thermal compression (TC) bonders from its subsidiary Semes, TheElec has learned.As TC bonders are used to stack DRAMs and a must to manufacture high bandwidth memory (HBM) and DDR5, the order indicates that Samsung will likely focus on advanced DRAM production this year

More and more electric vehicles are using lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries by the day. However, some consider LFP batteries to be more difficult to recycle compared to other battery types.Enter Green Li-ion, which said on Monday that it has developed a recycling technology and was ready to shi

Samsung has ordered a significant number of 2.5D bonding equipment from Japanese company Shinkawa, TheElec has learned.The South Korean tech giant ordered 16 units of the equipment from the packaging firm, sources said. Samsung already received 7 units and is likely to request the remaining when it