Japan’s Idemitsu Kosan said on Tuesday that its new research center in Osan, South Korea won’t be affected by diplomatic or security issues.Idemitsu is a supplier of blue OLED material and electron transport layer to Samsung Display and LG Display for OLED panels.The Japanese company formed the rese

Chinese display panel makers monopolizing the liquid crystal display (LCD) market will in the long run threaten the TV businesses of Samsung and LG, according to UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi.Yi told TheElec in an interview on Tuesday that while many see the dominance of Chinese companies in the L

South Korean analog chipmaker RFsemi has been sold to Chinese electronics maker Jinping Electronics.RFsemi said on Monday that its largest shareholder will be changed from ex-CEO Lee Jin-hyo to Jinping Electronics.The Chinese company will acquire 20 billion won worth of new shares to be issued on Ma

Siemens expects the global chip market to recover on the back of mega trends such as autonomous driving and AI.The chip industry was going through a fourth downturn and in the past the market has always grown substantially after such a downturn, Joseph Sawicki is Executive Vice President, Integrated

Samsung’s chip business barely avoided posting a profit loss in the fourth quarter of 2022 as the memory chip market reeled from price drops caused by weak demand.The South Korean tech giant said it recorded 70.46 trillion won in revenue and 4.31 trillion won in operating income during the quarter.

South Korean chip foundries are continuing to record lower operation rates in their production facilities, a trend that is expected to continue up to at least the second quarter.South Korea is home to foundries, or contract chip makers, such as Samsung, DB Hitek, Key Foundry, Magnachip, and SK Hynix

LG Electronics is using OLED panels from Samsung Display for its first OLED notebook, TheElec has learned.LG unveiled its Gram Style notebook series this week, which comes in 14-inch and 16-inch models.These two models are currently being manufactured using Samsung Display’s rigid OLED panels, sourc

Inkjet printing company Unijet has been chosen as the supplier of RGB inkjet printers in a government-backed project.South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, along with the local government of South Chungcheong Province, is leading a project dubbed Display Innovation Process Platform Bu

South Korean printed circuit board maker Isu Petasys have secured orders for boards from more tech giants.The company will be supplying its multi-layer boards for server applications to Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia, sources said.Isu Petasys already has Google as a customer for the same boards.The co

The Korean CEO of TCL CSOT will step back from management of the Chinese display giant.TCL CSOT CEO Kim Woo-shik, who is also senior vice president of TCL, will leave his current role and become an advisor at TCL.Kim, who previously worked at LG Display before joining the Chinese firm, had been at C

South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix are planning to procure fewer silicon wafers used in chip production than they initially planned going forward, TheElec has learned.The chipmakers discussed the issue with their respective wafer suppliers sometime during the fourth quarter, sources said.S

LG Electronics may launch a transparent OLED TV in 2024 at the earliest, TheElec has learned.LG Display had pitched the idea to the electronics maker earlier this year; but such a model is not slated to launch in 2023, sources said.This is likely due to the demand for consumer electronics such as TV

Samsung has drastically reduced its shipment target for its mid-tier smartphone Galaxy A23 5G this year, TheElec has learned.The Korean electronics maker originally planned to ship 12.6 million units but this has been dropped to below 4 million units __ a 70% drop.Earlier this year, Samsung had set

Samsung Display has changed its priority in the development of Gen 8 IT OLED panels, TheElec has learned.The South Korean company is planning to postpone investments into full-cut, vertical deposition method it had been co-developing for over a year with Japan’s Ulvac.Samsung Display will instead st

South Korean chip foundries are seeing the operation rate of their fabs drop steeply, TheElec has learned.With the exception of Samsung, which is still seeing high demand from advanced nodes, local foundry companies such as DB Hitek, Key Foundry, Magnachip, and SK Hynix System IC are seeing their op

LG Display is expected to launch large OLED panels with micro lens array technology which will improve brightness and power consumption.The South Korean display panel maker first unveiled a 77-inch 8K OLED panel with the technology and deuterium applied at SID 2022 in May this year.Micro lens array

China’s BOE has been removed from the official list of suppliers for this year of Samsung published by the South Korean tech giant.Meanwhile, China’s Sunny Optical was newly added __ Japan’s Alps Electric, Nitto Denko, and Rohm were also noticeably absent.Samsung publishes its list of suppliers bian

Korea Zinc’s expansion into energy and resource development businesses could mean that it could end its relationship with its largest shareholder Youngpoong Group.On Wednesday, Korea Zinc announced that it will commence share swaps with LG Chem and Hanwha Corporation worth 256.7 billion won and 156.

Samsung has removed Japan’s Ibiden from the supply chain for high density interconnect (HDI) boards for its Galaxy S23 smartphone series, TheElec has learned.Ibiden had been a constant supplier HDI printed circuit boards for prior generations of the Galaxy S series.The Japanese company’s removable s

Batteries, biopharmaceuticals, and chips. These three products are largely considered to be Samsung’s three growth engines today by observers of the South Korean conglomerate.Samsung SDI is the subsidiary that handles batteries.But in contrast to the other two products, Samsung SDI’s investment in t